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Eva Longoria Has a Spicy Take on Hollywood’s Lack of Diversity
Eva Longoria isn’t fooled by Hollywood’s performative woke veneer; the actor and director says that the entertainment industry is not as progressive as it appears to be from the outside. Representation and diversity are actually slowly dwindling in the film and television industry, specifically with directors (“There are [fewer] female directors now than there were three years ago,” she says. “There are [fewer] Latinos in TV and film than there were three years ago.”)
Chase Stokes in Real Life
Chase Stokes is everywhere right now—literally. He lives in Charleston, South Carolina, but he’s in Los Angeles at the moment. When he’s not in either of those places, he’s likely traveling across the country to support his girlfriend, singer Kelsea Ballerini, at her concerts or in New York City for work. Recently, he’s been on red carpets for his latest movie, Uglies, and promoting season four of his hit Netflix show, Outer Banks.
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To Theo James, Timing Is Everything
“There are lots of things that I would change in my past,” Theo James says, through his signature irreverent smirk. “But they are too X-rated to say in an interview.”
For the uninitiated, James knows how to play the heartthrob. He joined Downton Abbey for one episode in the first season as the flirtatious Mr. Pamuk, who dies in Mary’s bed after seducing her. From there, he played the brooding and mysterious Four, alongside Shailene Woodley, in the dystopian teen flick Divergent. Stans of the franchise (the hive is alive and well) will recall James’s baby-faced interviews…
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Cara Jade Myers Is Just Getting Started
When Cara Jade Myers started acting, she didn’t intend to be someone else’s on-screen representation. She’s happy to do it, but — first and foremost — she performs for herself. “I never really was like, Oh, I’m going to do this for other people,” she tells InStyle over the phone as she’s trying on outfits for a press junket. It’s mere days after the SAG-AFTRA strike ended, and the media is clamoring to speak with the cast of one of the most critically acclaimed films of the year. “[Acting] was always for me because it was something that made me happy, that I enjoyed.”
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It’s Not Christopher Briney’s Fault You’re, Like, in Love With Him
Christopher Briney is just like any other 20-something trying to make it in the big city: He has roommates, rides the subway with noise-canceling headphones, and takes his clothes to a local laundromat. (A fan once stopped him while he was carrying his “big ass laundry bag.”) He arrives at the InStyle set in elevated athleisure and a backpack, with his signature dry humor and a tube of Aquaphor that he regularly reapplies. Like a true New Yorker, he makes small talk on the benefits of living in one borough (Brooklyn) over another (Manhattan) and overpriced grocery stores. The only teensy, tiny, minuscule difference between Briney and the 8.5 million other residents of New York City? He looks sexy with his hair pushed back.
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All Hail India Amarteifio
As a young Black actress, India Amarteifio never envisioned herself playing a woman of power, let alone the queen of England. That is, until Bridgerton reimagined the landscape of period pieces and representation on television. Now, Amarteifio is living out a dream she never even knew she had in Netflix’s Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, which hits the streaming giant on May 4.
Luke Newton’s Slow Burn
Dearest gentle reader, Chivalry is not dead. And Luke Newton is making sure of that.
When the Bridgerton star dials into our Zoom call on a Thursday, it’s around dinner time in London, Newton’s home base, but he’s quick to assure me that he is more than happy to be talking with me. Just a couple of weeks earlier, on the set of this shoot, the actor delighted the InStyle team by delivering the polaroid photos he’d taken for this story tucked oh-so-carefully…