Ladies and gentlemen, Jonathan Majors. Photographed for VFHollywood by Steven Klein, 2023. 🔗:
a time I thought it was a dirty word,” says Jonathan Majors. “You know what I mean?” He’s talking about stardom. He says the wordsthen lets them hang in the air like an incantation. “In school, you would never dream of saying something so ambitious.” Majors grew up poor in Texas, where he was raised by his mom, who’s a pastor. As a teenager, he was combative. Anti-authority. Then he discovered the release valve that was acting.
Despite their youth, most of the sparkly people in this issue have been acting forever. Pugh played Mary in a school nativity play at the age of six—and decided her character should have a Yorkshire accent. Keke Palmer made her film debut as a child, and Butler and Selena Gomez found fame early on TV as well. “When I was filmingWizards of Waverly Place,
Everybody here is ecstatic just to be regularly employed when, as Regé-Jean Page puts it, “a good 90 percent of my industry is out of work at any given time.” Page, who grew up in London and in Harare, Zimbabwe, is best known as the duke onHe regularly reminds himself that an entire fictional world has been built before he even steps on a set—that every project “has had love, sweat, tears, and breakdowns before I’ve ever read the script.
Gomez has thought a lot about public personas since that photo of her and Butler was taken on the set ofneedless to say. “I wasn’t a wild child by any means, but I was on Disney so I had to make sure not to say ‘What the hell’ around anyone,” she says. “Now I think being the best role model means being honest even with the ugly and complicated parts.
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