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For years, Michael Archer II kept his parents’ names out of conversations he didn’t have to have. Now, for his first feature film, he’ll be answering to a different name altogether —...
Alvin Kamara was heading into a rough patch when he decided to give something back to Tennessee. At 31, the New Orleans Saints running back was working his way back from a knee injury. His 2025 season...
Zendaya’s films have taken more than $4.1 billion worldwide this year. The number is remarkable, but the choices behind it tell the more useful story. Zendaya reached the first weekend of August...
By 2018, most artists in Jorja Smith’s position would have taken the label meeting. Drake had put her on two More Life tracks and brought her out on tour. She’d opened for Bruno Mars...
Maybe the smartest thing Doechii ever did was decide a project mattered less than everyone assumed it did. By 2022 she was past the independent-artist stage — Top Dawg Entertainment and Capitol...
He barely moved up on that Hall H stage. No fist pump, no big wave to the crowd. Just a guy in his early thirties, born and raised in London, trained at RADA, standing there while two thousand people...
Ayo Edebiri’s most revealing career move didn’t happen in front of a camera. During “Fishes” — the season two episode of The Bear where Sydney Adamu doesn’t even show up...
Here’s the thing everyone kind of glosses over: six months into auditioning, Crawford figured out something most actors take years to accept. Sometimes the problem isn’t you. It’s...
The scene includes Rome. A room, no music. Alessandro Michele sitting there, presumably deciding whether this kid from New York is worth a contract. And Alton Mason — broke, tired of castings...