She invented her beloved Arrested Development role virtually single-handedly, and her 60-year career is full of similar transformations. By Keith Phipps March 26, 2021 Jessica Walter on For the People, 1965.CBS / Getty Images Nobody described what made Jessica Walter’s performance as Arrested Development’s Lucille Bluth so rich and wonderful better than Walter herself. Speaking
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Duo Armand Hammer and prolific producer The Alchemist discuss how they teamed up to make the new album. By Paul Thompson March 25, 2021 Courtesy of Alexander Richter for Armand Hammer Making Haram was complicated — the juggling of projects like rushing a brood of kids off to school, the record itself assembled from scattered
The old-man action boom has a trickle-down effect: Meet the trainers who get unlikely heroes like Bob Odenkirk and Liam Neeson into ass-kicking shape. By Jake Kring-Schreifels March 25, 2021 Bob Odenkirk training for Nobody, 2021.Courtesy of Allen Fraser for Universal Pictures In the summer of 2018, the director Ilya Naishuller visited 87eleven, the Hollywood
The two monsters share a tangled history of eccentric genius and intellectual property that culminates in this week’s Godzilla vs. Kong blockbuster. By Keith Phipps March 24, 2021 Illustration by Simon Abranowicz “They have an ancient rivalry,” Rebecca Hall’s Dr. Ilene Andrews says gravely in the trailer to Godzilla vs. Kong. Undoubtedly, the movie will
GQ’s Rachel Tashjian sends a letter of adoration to the New York artist who’s turning celebrity fandom on its head. By Rachel Tashjian Photography by David Brandon Greeting March 24, 2021 Dear Sam, When I was first assigned to write a profile of you for America’s premier men’s magazine, I was already impressed with your
The rapper’s debut album, out Friday, is full of the bouncy, hard-hitting trap he’s known for as well as a few stylistic swerves. By John Norris March 24, 2021 YBN NahmirCourtesy of Atlantic Records What a difference a few months makes. On November 23rd 2020, one of the most charismatic young rappers of recent years
Back in 2005, Matt Sweeney and Will Oldham quietly put out an album called Superwolf and watched it become a cult classic. Now, at long last, they’re releasing the follow-up—and repping old-fashioned virtues like friendship, collaboration, and the reckless pursuit of life-changing art. March 23, 2021 Click for fashion credits. When the guitarist Matt Sweeney
On the murders in Atlanta and the long history that got us here. By Anthony Christian Ocampo March 23, 2021 Illustration by Simon Abranowicz Dear Randy, Your first Instagram post, dated May 2017, includes a photo of you and your mother, Hyun Jung Grant, at your high school graduation. You’re in your purple graduation gown,
The singer’s excellent new album Deacon embraces mainstream sounds but retains his innovative flair. By Jordan Coley March 23, 2021 Courtesy of Braylen Dion The animating paradox of pop music is that the best things are usually both unlike anything we’ve ever heard and a canny embodiment of time-tested favorites. Think Hendrix’s symphonic electric guitar
Pearce plays hedonistic painter Han van Meegeren in The Last Vermeer, and next will star in HBO’s Mare of Easttown. By Scott Meslow March 22, 2021 A time traveler could throw an interesting dinner party just by rounding up all the historical figures played by Guy Pearce over the course of his career: Andy Warhol;
The director unloads his grand plan for the DC Cinematic Universe, if he’d stayed at the helm. By Frazier Tharpe March 19, 2021 Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, and Zack Snyder on set for Zack Snyder’s Justice League, 2021.Courtesy of Clay Enos for HBO Max Zack Snyder’s Justice League has finally arrived, and with it, a
The massage parlor shooting in Atlanta will be a test case for Georgia’s new hate crime laws, which are less than a year old. By Colin Groundwater March 19, 2021 A rally against AAPI hate crimes in Bellevue, Washington, March 18, 2021.Jason Redmond / Getty Images This Tuesday, a 21-year-old man killed eight people in
Younger, lighter, and more social-media focused than Euphoria and We Are Who We Are, Genera+ion might be the most authentically Gen Z series HBO has yet produced. By Roxana Hadadi March 19, 2021 The staticky sound of the HBO bumper has for years been synonymous with a specific kind of adult programming: the delightfully complex profanity of
This week’s shooting in Atlanta was the culmination of a pattern that’s been growing throughout the past year: Asian women are at massively disproportionate risk for racist violence. By Danielle Cohen March 18, 2021 Demonstrators rally in Los Angeles against a spike in violence toward Asian Americans, March 13, 2021.Ringo Chiu / Getty Images On
Every new scene addition and difference in The Snyder Cut, explained. By William Goodman March 18, 2021 Collage by Simon Abranowicz The long and winding road to Zack Snyder’s Justice League has finally reached its destination. Colloquially known as “The Snyder Cut,” the fan-demanded, four-hour epic has finally debuts on HBO Max, marking the conclusion
There’s a long, racist American history around Asian women and sex work. By Sable Yong March 18, 2021 Collage by Simon Abranowicz Earlier this week, a 21-year-old white man targeting three Atlanta-area massage parlors shot and killed eight people, six of whom were Asian women. The murders came in the wake of a months-long wave
Ignorance, Tamara Lindeman’s new album as The Weather Station, is her most sonically adventurous and critically acclaimed release yet. By Will Schube March 17, 2021 Ignorance by The Weather Station, 2021.Courtesy of Fat Possum and Next Door Tamara Lindeman had a feeling that The Weather Station’s new album was pretty good. Recorded in 2019, and
The much-maligned superhero epic may not be great IP management, but five years later it holds up as a fascinating watch. By Tres Dean March 16, 2021 Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, 2016.Everett Collection / Courtesy of Warner Bros. Superhero films typically function as four-quadrant crowd-pleasers. They operate
Last year, BTS’s first all-English song broke streaming records and earned the band their first Grammy nomination. GQ speaks to one half of the British songwriting duo behind the song to find out exactly how they did it. By Olive Pometsey March 16, 2021 BTS at the Grammy Awards, March 14, 2021.Courtesy of Louis Vuitton
The animation legend and director of Spirited Away and Howl’s Moving Castle won’t comment on movies because he’s too busy picking up trash. By Colin Groundwater March 16, 2021 Collage by Simon Abranowicz The filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki is a legendary artist, a bankable box office bet—and a certified grump. An interview from November surfaced today