Let's hear it for the boys.
Once again, Vanity Fair has marked the much-anticipated start of awards season with the release of its 32nd Hollywood Issue—an edition that, for the first time in decades, spotlights an ensemble comprised exclusively of male actors who have shaped the industry over the past year.
This special edition—Mark Guiducci’s first as Global Editorial Director—features three covers led by Andrew Garfield, Jonathan Bailey, Jeremy Allen White, Paul Mescal, Callum Turner, Glen Powell, LaKeith Stanfield, Riz Ahmed, Harris Dickinson, Michael B. Jordan, A$AP Rocky and Austin Butler.
In his editor’s letter, Guiducci writes: “These are not the matinee idols of early cinema, sprung fully formed, names staged and hair dyed, from the head of some Zeusian studio chief. (…) Our new leading men are something much more radical: mere mortals. Often kind, sometimes vulnerable, each extraordinary—never before has a generation of actors been less performative, and more human. Have you ever wondered what an internet boyfriend becomes when he grows up? A movie star, it turns out. They are good guys rather than strongmen or bad boys—and we love them for it.”
Photographed by Theo Wenner and styled by Tom Guinness, the concept of celebrating a single-gender cohort is not entirely new. In the first three years of the annual Hollywood Issue, Vanity Fair devoted one edition to all women and another to all men.
PHOTO CREDIT: Courtesy of Vanity Fair.
