IN WONDERLAND
PHOTOGRAPHY: BEN PHAM
FASHION STYLING: IVORY WOODS
MAKEUP ARTIST: ASHLEY JOY BECK
HAIR STYLIST: RENÉ MALDONADO CORTEZ
MUSE: LYENA KANG
NATALIE ALYN LIND strikes a match in the dust of Dutton Ranch as Oreana Jackson, a wild-hearted woman whose boldness burns bright enough to hide the fear, longing, and inherited wounds beneath it. In this revealing conversation, Lind opens up about freedom, family, resilience, and the courage to keep moving forward, even when strength means simply surviving the next hour.
SEBASTIAN AMORUSO enters Avatar: The Last Airbender Season 2 with a smile sharp enough to lead a rebellion and a heartbreak deep enough to turn survival into philosophy. In this conversation, the actor behind Jet opens up about identity, representation, stunt work, conviction, and the dangerous beauty of a character who believes he is saving the world, even as the fire inside him threatens to burn it down.
KIAWENTIIO returns to “Avatar: The Last Airbender Season 2” as Katara with the grace of someone who knows that power is not only in the wave, but in the home that teaches you how to stand still. In this intimate conversation, the Mohawk actress opens up about Akwesasne, waterbending as instinct and discipline, Indigenous visibility on a global stage, and the quiet truth behind her most revealing answer: “I think I would be a sketchbook.”
NICHOLAS DUVERNAY turns Not Suitable For Work into something more than a comedy about ambition, giving Kel Washington the restless heart of anyone who has ever chased a dream before the world was ready to make room. In this conversation, Duvernay opens up about football, faith, masculinity, family, and the courage to be fully seen, revealing why the most powerful role he is playing might be the one closest to himself.
SINCLAIR DANIEL opens up to A BOOK OF about finding home through theater, moving through spaces that taught her how to observe, protect, and adapt, and why her line “private is the right track” feels like the perfect invitation into the woman behind the performance.
HE MACEDO SISTERS, MELISSA AND MICHELLE, take us on a hauntingly beautiful journey through duality, identity, and self-acceptance in their bold new film Thinestra, where they play two sides of the same fractured soul. In this exclusive interview, the twin actors, musicians, and creatives open up about sisterhood, shame, and turning darkness into art, proving that sometimes the scariest mirror is the one that reflects who we really are.
SAM MORGAN brings small-town soul and global grit to every role, blending his Indiana roots with a life lived across Berlin dance floors and Hollywood backlots. In our exclusive interview, he opens up about creative risk, loss, and the restless pursuit of staying fully human in an industry built on illusion.
COURTNEY TAYLOR punches into Ballard as Zamira Parker—an ex-detective whose fierce loyalty and hard-earned vulnerability make every interrogation feel like a confession—holding her own opposite Maggie Q, John Carroll Lynch and Michael Mosley. She walks us through the on-set rituals that keep her steady between shootouts and soul-searching, then drops the kind of career mantra you’ll want on repeat: “You are being talked about in rooms that you have not entered.”
ERNEST KINGSLEY JR. ignites Washington Black as George Washington “Wash” Black—an inventive, tender-hearted force who carries the story from Barbados to Nova Scotia opposite Sterling K. Brown in this globe-trotting, emotionally charged adaptation.
He dug into history, let silence speak as loudly as invention, and keeps one piece of on-set wisdom close: “Follow your spirit — it very rarely leads you astray.”
SIMONE MILLER storms into Stephen King’s The Institute as Kalisha Benson—calm, uncanny, and quietly electric—using a musician’s precision and a writer’s hunger for truth to make supernatural danger feel heartbreakingly human. She shares the small rituals that keep her grounded between takes and why she chooses raw feeling over polish: “I am daring myself and my audience to stare right into my void of ugly, excitement, angst, poignance, beauty, and embrace it all.”