Keke Palmer
MOVIES: Nope, Lightyear
She was a spirited, surprising hero inNope, and—thanks toSNL—her baby bump enthralled the internet. Asked who her heroes are, the former Nickelodeon darling says, “One hundred percent Tyler Perry. He’s showing a path of ownership for Black creators. You want somebody else? We got Jordan Peele, we got Donald Glover, we got Issa Rae. It’s like, we haveoptions.”
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TV:Squid Game, Disclaimer
The Korean model turned actor rocketed to fame (and a best actress award from the Screen Actors Guild) withSquid Game.Next up? A role on Apple TV+’sDisclaimer, starring Cate Blanchett. It’s all made for an intense ride with “complex emotions coming from everywhere.”
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Jeremy Allen White
TV: The Bear
MOVIES: Fingernails, The Iron Claw
After 10 years on the cult treasureShameless, White broke big as chef Carmy Berzatto onThe Bear. He’s since made the sci-fi romanceFingernails alongside two actors he loves, Riz Ahmed and Jessie Buckley, and donned “ridiculously skimpy clothing” as the late wrestler Kerry Von Erich inThe Iron Claw.
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Emma Corrin
MOVIES: Lady Chatterley’s Lover, My Policeman
TV: Retreat
Just being cast as Princess Diana inThe Crown informed Corrin’s portrayal of the role. “I had a weird parallel experience of being plucked from nowhere and suddenly having people outside my house,” says the British actor. Corrin identifies as nonbinary and credits friends in the industry, like actor Dan Levy and comedian Mae Martin, with helping them on their journey.
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Regé-Jean Page
MOVIES: The Gray Man, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
The British actor broke out inBridgerton,then made clear he’s more than just a (breathtakingly) handsome face withThe Gray Man. Page, one of two actors in this portfolio rumored to be in the running to play 007, has a strict policy of humility: “The actors are the piece of equipment that turns up last and fucks up most, basically.”
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Julia Garner
TV: Ozark, Inventing Anna
Last year, she drew Emmy nominations for bothInventing Anna andOzark, and won for the latter for the third time. Still, Garner remembers being 21 and struggling to find work. “But I bookedOzark,” she says, “and I kept pushing because I felt like I still had a lot to do.”
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Aaron Taylor-Johnson
MOVIES: Bullet Train, Kraven the Hunter
The Englishman has character-actor depth, and enough magnetism to keep climbing the marquee. The Bond rumors are still just rumors, and he’s careful to keep them in perspective: “You just want to stay grounded, and stay around the people that you love and love you back.”
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COVER STORY
In Praise of “Sparkly People”
“LOOK, THERE WAS 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 wordsmovie star, then 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. This year, the Yale drama school grad’s coiled presence is on display inCreed III and the newAnt-Man and the Wasp movie, and he’ll reign as the archvillain in the next phase of Marvel blockbusters. Majors pours himself into his roles and wants them to be seen, so he doesn’t shy away from the notion of stardom anymore. “I think it’s a word that I was afraid of, because it actually comes with a lot of hope,” he says, “and that’s scary.”
There aren’t many actors who give us as much hope as the 12 stars in these pages. None of them have been on one of our Hollywood covers before. We’ve chosen them because they’re riveting onscreen and driven and ever-evolving in real life. Florence Pugh, the British actor who entered the atmosphere like a comet not so long ago, recently shotDune: Part Two with other bright lights of her generation, including Austin Butler. “They are remarkable people, number one, and unbelievable actors, number two,” says Pugh. “They’re stars in their own ways, not in the cliché way of using the word. They’re just—they’re sparkly people.”
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 filmingElvis, Selena found this photograph of the two of us when I did a guest-star thing on her showWizards of Waverly Place,” says Butler. “And she sends it to me, just going, ‘Wow, remember this?’ It feels like another life. When you’re a child actor, you see so many people come in from Texas or something, and at a certain point they may quit or go back. We’re just so fortunate to have careers in this industry for this amount of time.”
