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Karamo Brown, Jonathan Van Ness, Antoni Porowski, Bobby Berk, and Tan France WHAT ARE YOU HOLDING ON TO? THE WEEKWEEK’S S BEST TWEET OF THE WEEK Yanni or Laurel? Don’t ask me. I can’t hear s---. @Marlee Matlin weighing in on social media’s hottest debate “We’re going back to the Civil War again. Yayyyy.” —RufusRufus (Malcolm(Malcolm Barrett)Barrett), reacting to tthehe team’s next mission, on Timeless

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Last year’s finale saw Liza watching her ex Josh [Nico Tor- torella] get married. Is that relationship really done this season?

Josh represents a big part of Liza’s rebirth or reinvention, and she will always love him, but she also knows that she can’t give him the life she thinks he wants, so she’s set him free. It’s bittersweet, and there’s real loss and sadness there. But everything changes after the first epi-

sode. The whole IMAGES FOSTER: WALTER MCBRIDE/GETTY world gets flipped upside down.

YOUNGER Uh-oh. How does that impact Liza and As the tangle of Liza’s lies grows more complex, and love her little white lie? triangles become love pentagons in season 5, we Season 5 is where could keep watching this genius comedy treasure well into Liza kind of grows up our 40s...or fake 20s...or whatever. (TV Land, June 5) and starts to take

4 EW.COM SUMMER PREVIEW 2018 ILLUSTRATION BY LAURA LANNES responsibility for her actions. She gets some balls this season. It’s a real roller coaster, because between season 4 ending and season 5 starting, the real world changed. Darren Star and the writers had an opportunity to do the right thing and represent that [while] also creating a lot of drama for the show.

Where does that leave Liza and her boss, Charles [Peter Hermann]? THE This is the season of Liza and Charles—it IF YOU’RE OUTSIDER really is. Are they MISSING skipping through the by Stephen King fields happily ever ICONA P after? Of course not, P O At a Little League because this is game, a detective Younger, but I defi- oversees the arrest of nitely feel like it gives a teacher who he fans a glimpse into believes murdered an the relationship that 11-year-old boy. The we haven’t seen yet, problem? There is and that’s exciting. equally ample evidence that the teacher Speaking of the real was elsewhere at the world, have you time of the killing. read the real-life ver- After two collabora- sion of the tie-in novel, tions last year, Marriage Vacation “LOVE IS DEAD” Stephen King is back [out June 5]? Or, spe- CHVRCHES to being a one-man cifically, page 58? thrill show with The Outsider (check out an I started to read Just six years ago, featuring bigger and excerpt on EW.com). that page, but I Chvrches uploaded better versions of the “I love that book,” King couldn’t—it was so a song called “Lies” in a synth-pop dance sound says of his 58th novel. salacious! I think it’ll blog post, unsure if any- beloved by fans (and “I think it’s a good one. be a really fun sum- It’s very readable.” The mer read. It’s wild one would listen on the spin classes) following same could be said for for us to see it actu- other side—a cosmic their first two lauded the rest of the author’s ally exist and go, test for the pop powers records. Proof, indisput- busy pipeline, which “My character edited that be. Now they drop ably, that someone has includes Elevation, a this!” [Laughs] their third studio album, indeed been listening. new novella due in I did a really good October, and at least job, right? one promising first TAKE YOURSELF TO CHVRCH draft that King already considers a win: “I Three essential songs from the EDM band always say to myself, ‘Okay, if I die, these could get published... with a little work.’ ” “THE MOTHER “CLEAREST BLUE” “GRAFFITI” WE SHARE” You haven’t heard a Chvrches purists will Chvrches’ oficial bass build until you’ve feel at home with debut single is every made it through this Love Is Dead‘s opening bit as listenable as track that basically beats, while casual it was in 2012. Why dares you not to dance. fans will get lost in the

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A self-titled third album marks a mature milestone for thehe rising singer-songwriter, who opens up to EW’s Marc Snetiker about the anxiety and nerves behind this emmotional record (which already boasts breakout singles “In My Blood” and “Youth”). With one of the strongest poop releases of the year, Mendes, 19, continues to confi- deently navigate his own path, dropping an impressive volume of hummable, feel-good beats along the way.

what makes it great. F--- 40 hits at night, and that’s it! Write it down! Just the way I was creating take the hit.” That’s what music [on this album]. music is about. You’re headlining your What surprised you most third world tour next year. about listening to the What have you learned? finished album overall? There’s no such It’s a crazy eclectic group thing as a perfect show. Whaat excited you about of genres and hybrids I’ve accepted that the decision to self-title that’s really weird, in the lately, and I’ve been your third album? best way. There’s no such having more fun thing as “I only listen to singing on stage than Ireallya wanted to country music” or “I only ever. I wish I could cappture this. There’s listen to pop music” any- have told myself that ear- somethingm about where more. I would wake up lier. I would have saved Iam right now in my life, and listen to Kanye West so many nights of being beingn 19 and I think the in the gym, John Mayer in angry at myself. But most malleable I’ve ever the afternoon, and Top that’s what growing up is. beene in my whole life, and maybe ever will be.

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J. Lo simply never stops, adding this juicy collab with Cardi B and DJ Khaled to her lengthy list of party- ready pop anthems. With echoes of last year’s bilin- gual earworm “Despacito,” Lopez’s latest single is a certified banger that will

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Mindy Kaling at Dartmouth! Sterling K. Brown at Stanford! Connie Britton at USC School of Dramatic Arts! Col- lege graduations are that grand time when stars dole out scholarly advice and make you wonder about a future that might have been had they gone into academia instead of acting. Like that distant aunt who couldn’t get a ticket to the event, you can catch all the best speeches on YouTube.

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married your favorite former AT THE END OF AN HOUR-LONG ceremony that mixed tradition with novelty, Suits star May 19 with the the royal union was sealed with a kiss on the BEN STANSALL/PA IMAGES/GETTY IMAGES IMAGES/GETTY STANSALL/PA BEN steps of St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle, vows heard around the world. in front of roaring well-wishers brandishing Union Jack ﬂags. Though a shame for the 600 (In America alone, almost 30 mil- invited guests within the chapel who might’ve wanted to see the smooch at the altar, they lion people watched!) We look still got the vows, hymns, and prayers, so we back at our 10 favorite moments. don’t feel too bad for them.

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Lifting the Veil

After Meghan Markle, 36, made 2 her way down the aisle, accompanied part of the way by Prince Charles, Harry, 33, nervously greeted her at the altar with a “You look amazing” compliment. (Cue heart flutters.) Minutes later he pulled back the front of her 16½-foot silk tulle veil for a better look at his bride—and the eye- catching Queen Mary diamond bandeau tiara she had borrowed from the Queen. According to the Palace, British designer Clare Waight Keller, artistic director of Givenchy, fashioned the flowery detailing of Markle’s veil to include representations of the distinctive flora of all 53 Commonwealth countries. To salute her home state, Markle added a California poppy.

The Dress 4 Markle collaborated with Waight 3 Keller on her regal gown made of pure white silk and boasting a bateau neckline and sculpted waist. Nordstrom is already selling a similar-looking dress, which can be yours for the low, low price of $3,480.

Bishop Michael Bruce Curry’s Sermon

In a soaring and jubilant speech 4 that lasted nearly 14 minutes— the likes of which had never been heard before in prim and proper St. George’s Chapel—the Most Rev. Michael Bruce Curry (presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church in the U.S.) spoke of slavery, quoted Martin Luther King Jr., and compared

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Kidding Around

LESS THAN ONE MONTH AFTER GIVING BIRTH TO HEER and Prince William’s third child (Prince Louis), the Duchess of Cambridge had her hands full rounding up the young bridesmaidds and page boys, including her own children, Princess Charlotte annd AGE

Prince George. The bridal party also included godchildren of thhe S bride and groom and the 7-year-old twin sons of Jessica Mulroneey, one of Markle’s dearest friends. Luckily, they all knew better thaan to throw a televised temper tantrum. 6 The Queen’s Arrival

Her Majesty the Queen and her 6 husband, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, were the last to arrive at the chapel before the bride made her 8 appearance. You might know this pair better as Claire Foy and Matt Smith on The Crown. 99 The Other Queen (a.k.a. Oprah) Arrives

Her O-ness, Serena Williams, and 7 George and Amal Clooney were among the A-listers to snag an invitation to the most coveted event of the year. Quantico star Priyanka Chopra also scored a spot in a pew, as did a dapper David and Victoria Beckham—disappointingly, she was the only Spice Girl in sight.

The Gospel Choir

In a move that strayed far from 8 tradition (sensing a trend here?), Markle and Prince Harry asked Karen Gibson and the Kingdom Choir to perform a soul- stirring, tear-inducing gospel rendition of the R&B hit “Stand by Me” made famous by Ben E. King. The performance was one of many displays of inclusion and diversity present at this very modern royal wedding. If you 77weren’t crying, you weren’t listening. Everyone in Suits!

Markle’s Suits husband, Patrick J. OONEYS, 9 Adams, finally gave up waiting for Rachel to come back with the milk and figured he may as well attend the wedding of the decade instead. His costars from the USA drama—Gabriel Macht, Sarah Raferty, Rick Hofman, Gina Torres, Abigail Spencer, and Jacinda Barrett—also made the trip.

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Britain’s got talent! Seriously, though. 10 Sheku Kanneh-Mason, the 19-year-old cellist who strummed like an angel during the Signing of the Register, was actually a contestant on the talent-scavenging show in 2015. We’re goinng to go ahead and assume that the experiencee of playing the royal wedding toppedbeing judged by Simon Cowell. BARRETT AND MACHT, ADAMS AND TROIAN BELLISARIO, THE BECKHAMS, POOL/GETTY SPENCER CHOPRA: AND (5); IMAGES WEST/WPA ALEXIS OHANIAN: IAN WILLIAMS AND THE CL HUSSEIN/WIREIMAGE POOL/SAMIR

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7 Joonas Suotamo and Alden Ehrenreich photographed exclusively for Entertainment Weekly by Eric Ray Davidson on May 11, 2018, in Los Angeles EW HITS LIGHT SPEED WITH ALDEN EHRENREICH AND JOONAS SUOTAMO AS THEY SUIT UP AS HAN SOLO AND CHEWBACCA IN SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY. READING TIME: LESS THAN 12 PARSECS.

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PHOTOGRAPHS BY ERIC RAY DAVIDSON @ERICRAYDAVIDSON I WATCHED ALL THE MOVIES AND TRIED TO ABSORB IT AS MUCH AS I COULD SO THAT I HAD A SENSE OF THE WAY THE CHARACTER WORKS AND THINKS. THEN I DIDN’T HAVE TO THINK ABOUT IT WHEN WE’RE ACTUALLY DOING IT.”

ALDEN EHRENREICH ON PLAYING HAN SOLO

Joonas, you’ve worked with both Han Solos. Tell me what it was like seeing the change in gears from Ford to Ehrenreich. JOONAS SUOTAMO Alden, from that first day, I knew that he was going for something that’s his own. He’s not trying to just merely mimic what Harrison would do. He can imitate Harrison. I asked him to many times, and he can do it [laughs]. I’m just so privileged to have been able to work with both Hans. It’s a blast. Alden, you got your break from casting THE FIRST THING THEY director Fred Roos, and he also helped DO IS SHARE A BEAR HUG— persuade George Lucas to cast Ford in the part back in the day. ALTHOUGH “WOOKIEE HUG” ALDEN EHRENREICH He cast Harrison. He [helped] cast the original Star Wars.He IS MORE ACCURATE. cast American Graffiti. He cast me in my first film [Francis Ford Coppola’s 2009 It’s the morning after the premiere of Solo: A Star drama Tetro]. And that was actually the Wars Story in Los Angeles, and the new Han Solo, first thing Harrison and I talked about— ALDEN EHRENREICH, stares up at the (relatively) that we both had that shared experience, new Chewbacca, JOONAS SUOTAMO (pronounced and working for Francis Ford Coppola. YOH-nuss SWAH-tah-mo), with a crooked grin on his And Spielberg, who I haven’t worked with face. It’s the end of a long journey for both of them, but he started my career [by recommending him to casting agents after seeing him in a but in a way it’s also just the beginning. Ehrenreich, friend’s bat mitzvah video]—Ford obviously 28, is bringing to life the early years of Han’s story, worked with him a whole lot. while Suotamo, 31, is the Wookiee version of book- So were you drawing old war stories ends. The seven-foot Finnish basketball center costars out of him? with Ehrenreich in director Ron Howard’s new film, EHRENREICH Yeah, well, we were talking but he also took over Chewie duties from originator about the Millennium Falcon blast door closing on him. [The 2014 accident on the set Peter Mayhew in time to double as the walking carpet of The Force Awakens broke Ford’s leg and in Harrison Ford’s final outing as the smuggler in stalled production.] And I was like, “Whoa, 2015’s The Force Awakens. “Who’s better?” Ehren- that sounds really gnarly. Is that the worst reich taunts Suotamo when they sit down for their thing that’s happened to you on a movie?” talk with EW. That is one question the new Chewie And he was like, [smirks] “No.” He started wouldn’t answer. Everything else was fair game. listing all the bones that he’s broken. SUOTAMO We were terrified when that

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[improvising]. But Joonas really taught me how to do it, these deep-cut Wookiee things that you have to break the noise at the beginning. SUOTAMO [Makes the huffing Wookiee laugh] EHRENREICH I should say Joonas has to do an unbelievable amount of stuff. It’s not just wearing the suit. He has to move in a very particular way. He has to understand how a Wookiee’s thinking. I think Joonas has brought a lot of heart to it and just does a really impressive job. More than people can even totally understand. SUOTAMO Thanks so much, man. EHRENREICH Well, I’m lying, but… Last question: Why doesn’t Chewbacca wear clothes? SUOTAMO The pouch, hello? Right? EHRENREICH Ask what Chewbacca’s last name is. SUOTAMO You told me you’d never go thing happened. I was in the costume. We EHRENREICH Joonas always does some there. were rehearsing a scene. I thought that my version of the line with the noise [to be EHRENREICH I asked Joonas that when we hero from childhood was no more! I was redubbed later with distorted animal were training. I was like, “Does Chewie sure of it. And then apparently…he just sounds], and that’s really fun. Sometimes have a last name?” He was like, “Yeah, of walked off and called his own helicopter. he’ll say what he would be saying but sort course.” I was like, “What is it?” That’s Harrison. of in the… SUOTAMO [Laughs] EHRENREICH He’s a real action hero. SUOTAMO [In warbled Chewie roar] “Do EHRENREICH He was like, “Jones.” X SUOTAMO He is. More amazing in real life you speak my language?” than in the movies. EHRENREICH [Laughs] There’s probably a Watching Solo, there are moments great version of the movie where they just where I thought I could see reflections leave all those things in! of Ford’s Han, but I like that you didn’t SUOTAMO I would love that, but there are imitate him. Wasn’t his advice—? some swear words. EHRENREICH “Do your own thing.” Yeah. EHRENREICH [Nods] There’s a lot of swear You’re really watching a story about a words. character, and for that to feel real you SUOTAMO I heard one particular swear need to have it feel like a real person. One word wasn’t cut until the very last thing that’s an impediment to that would moments where they found a bear sound, be if I was consciously trying to do [an and I was devastated. They should have imitation]. I watched all the movies and stopped looking and just left it in there. tried to absorb it as much as I could so Alden, when you were having your side that I had a sense of the way the character of the conversation, were you just works and thinks. Then I didn’t have to improvising sounds or did they actually

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VAN NE lived a very, very Middle Eastern life unti I was supposed to drive. [Br was in my early 20s. It was very sheltered I kne atchin [it], I felt like we did it respect it was onna happen. It was never suppose full , where we could ask the questions tha to be that serious of a situation. It was sup robabl so man people have wanted to pose to e come ic ’m rea y prou o t at episo e RW BR W ecause we a owe ourse ves to e open get away rom t e at room stu an rea - ze t at t ese are just uman eings tryin o live their lives, and it’s somethin that ir TR N F RMER we all take for granted. Hearing Sk ler, th first time I got to talk to him, sa , “I tried to In season 2, which filmed durin the same pro get m license several times.” Think abou duction rame as season 1, audiences will mee f ou were just tr ing to go to the airport, Sk ler, the first trans man to appear on th nd ou could not get on [the plane] eries. Just weeks after receiving a life- and bod because our license said somethin altering surger , he undergoes ph sical, mental, ifferent. It’s ust about people living a and emotional chan es thanks to his visitors omfortable, rotected, res ected life. VAN NE One of m closest friends is trans man who is incredi le. And a lot o wi Ia m clients are trans women. So I am reall NEET t, me - oping t at we can o rig t y our trans MEN UP IN HERE my tk brothers and sisters. Skyler is goin through so much, so it was important to T ere’s a reason “for t e Straig t Gu ” wa be gentle and respectful and not to be ro e rom t e reviva ’s tit e; as au iences queenie now-it-a um- um w en you’r aw in season 1, t e Fa 5 a so gave a ma e- trying to e a oving person etter to a ga man, an season 2 ic s of RAN S y er, or me, was my avorite epi- wit t e series’ first fema e su ject, Tammye so e we’ve ever one. I ove t e ot ers, air warning: T e episo e e ivers an emo tru y o. But I wasn’t as in orme or S y er. iona ut-punc .

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revival:“This was about a girl Show TRIAL & ERROR: 7 that moved to New York, that Reflecting on Bryan Fuller’s LADY, KILLER went to work for a Donald quirky drama about a pie maker NBC Trump-type guy, and had the with the ability to wake the dead Network dream of being on Broadway. still chokes up Chenoweth, Date 7.19 | Time 9PM Whatever happened to that girl? who won an Emmy for her perfor- COMEDY Wehavetojust film it and see.” mance as lovelorn waitress Olive Genre 7 Snook. “I get a little emotional Trial & Error: Lady, 3 when I think about it,” she says. Killer Wicked “Olive remains one of my favorite roles I’veeverhad.Ifelt like TV | 2018 P USHING DAISIES Stage | 2003–04 we did something really special.” for the queen-bee position in their Chenoweth joins as an heiress Theactresshadhigh hopes 6 afluent Texas neighborhood— accused of murdering her hus- when she signed on as Glinda it’s the title, which ABC censored band. “Her clothes are as good ,

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Marti Noxon is tired—and with good reason. The prolific mind behind some of your favorite shows (UnREAL and Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce, to name just a couple) is the creator of not one but two series airing thissummerthat are based onhitnovels. Premiering June 4 is AMC’s Dietland,a sly and subversive look at the beauty industry starring Joy Nash and Julianna Margulies (see sidebar). And in July, HBO will launch the languid, mysterious Sharp Objects, based on the Gillian Flynn thriller and starring Amy Adams, Patricia Clarkson, and Chris Messina. Taking a quick break from her multiple jobs, Noxon, 53, chats with EW about her impressive multitasking abilities. —SARA VILKOMERSON

Howareyouableto book,and it was juggle these very around halfway diferent shows? through that I real- Well, Ihavenot ized it was really known the loveof aboutrevolution— another human aboutwomenlook- being other than my ing at everything children. [Laughs] that they’ve taken as I did sideline my the status quo and personal life for a pushing back. [Pro- while, and it’s been tagonist] Plum is a very fruitful a character who has, and productive forthe first time in time but...frankly, her life, been agi- I’m tired. tated to wakeup. I just lovedhow sub- Let’s start with versive and sneaky Dietland, which is a story it is. And based on the weird! We really lean 2015 Sarai Walker into the weird. novel. What was it about this story JoyNashisafantas- that intrigued you? tic actress to go on I remember seeing this journey with. thecover of the Isn’t she a f---ing book—it featured a revelation? Wesaw a cupcake with a gre- lot of actresses, but nade pull—and I when Joy walked in was like, “That looks the room, it was just like something that so exciting. She wouldbeofinterest is very, very special. to me.” I bought the Your other lead actress right now is Amy Adams. As Sharp Objects’

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Network AMC Get ready to seeJe Juliuliannanna Date 6.4 | Time 9PM Margulies like you’ve never seen her before. On Dietland, the Genre DRAMA actressplays KittyMontgomery, the glamorousand ambitious executive at Austen Media, where she oversees many magazines— including theone where our heroinePlum (Joy Nash) works. “Isn’tn sheincredible?” Noxon says of Margulies. “She was excited by Kitty. She wanted to play someone delicious. She simply ate it up. But it’s also Julianna, so you still love her—which is what I wanted.Anygreat villain is someone you still wanttobe around all the time. She embod- ies that quality of‘Comehere, I have something really great and naughty totell you.’” Noxon worked on fleshing out the role of Kitty fromthe book. “II wanted her to be theultimate bad boss— the personthat is so seductive thatyou walk out of meetings and are like, ‘Hmmm.I’m alittle bit in lovewith that person even though I feel terrible.’ Theypull you closer andmake youfeel best- frifrr ended, but also like you want to kkill yourself.” Working with Margulu ies,aveteran of TV thanks to lonngstints on ER and The Good Network HBO Wife, proved to be pure pleasure. Date 7.8 | Time 9PM A “She’s an animal! She’s goodat everyysin s gle part of the job,” says Genre DRAMA Noxon. “She and Joy had so much fun together. That was the fun thing about makingthis Camille, she is Author Gillian ( Clockwise show—wewereall laughingeven from left ) whenitcame to theheavyparts. somehow grittier Flynn has a gift for Marti Noxon; than we’ve ever writing complicated with Joy Nash h Ithinkhinkw weall felfeltt this glgleeee in get- onthe set ting to tell this story.”

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centers on t e rea e re at on- ship between the Colombian Social Animals drugkingpin andjournalist Vir- D ate 6.1 | Directed by Theresa Bennett ginia Vallejo (Penélope Cruz). Bardem hopes the film goes Starri ng Noël Wells, Josh Radnor deeper than previous portrayals that glorified Escobar. “We Actors Noël Wells (Mr. Roosevelt, wanted to makeyougo,‘Idon’t Happy Anniversaryy) and Josh see the icon, I see the man.’” Radnor (Liberal Arts, Afternoon —DEREK LAWRENCE Delight) have cornered the market onindieanti–romanticcom- 3 edies. This time around,they 4 star as Zoe and Paul, owners of two neighboring (and failing) The Catcher Leave No Trace businesses who begin an afair Was a Spy 6.29 | Debra Granik tacitly permitted by Paul’s wife. D ate Directed by D ate 6.22 | DirectedbyBen Lewin “I think it’s about peopleintran- Starring Thomasin McKenzie, Ben Foster sition from one phase of their life Starri n g Paul Rudd, Mark Strong to another,” says Wells. “They’re Thomasin McKenzie’s perfor- people who are realizing their Moe Berg was a major-league mance as a younggirl living of lives in their current statearen’t baseball catcher, coach, and, the grid in an urban Portland fulfilling.” —DANA SCHWARTZ indeed, an American spy. The park with her father (Ben Foster) Princeton andColumbia Law has already earned her compari-

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John Cho in Searching

5 secrets.Butwhen documentar- profiles to uncover clues about ian Matt Tyrnauer peeled back her life. “There’saversion ofthe Fireworks, Should the 94-year-old’s layers, he movie where I’m going around WeSeeItFromthe found a complicated figure to [Margot’s] friends with a pic- whose glamorous past conflicts ture in my wallet of my daughter, Side or the Bottom? with hiscurrent hoarder life- but that’s not how thingsare style—a psychological anomaly done today,” says Cho. “The film Date 7.4 begging for screen time too. feels familiar, but it looks unfa- Directed by Akiyuki Shimbô and miliar.” —PIYA SINHA-ROY Nobuyuki Takeuchi “He’s a picaresque character… one of the great untold stories,” Masaki Suda, Suzu Hirose Starring says Tyrnauer of Bowers. —JN 9

Producer Genki Kawamura had a 7 Skate Kitchen tall order following up the global | success of2016’s Your Name, Never Goin’ Back D ate 8.10 D irectedbyCrystal Moselle but he does so with flying colors Starring Rachelle Vinberg, Jaden Smith (literally) in Fireworks, an expres- D ate 8.3 sionistic treat that paints an DirectedbyAugustine Frizzell The Wolfpack director Crystal atmospheric portrait of the teen- Moselle metthe membersofthe Starri n g Maia Mitchell, Camila Morrone age spirit against the backdrop all-female skateboarding crew of its titular neon spectacular. Skate Kitchen by chance one Augustine Frizzell’s feature direc- “Fireworks has fascinating draw- day on thesubway in New York. torial debut, Never Goin’ Back,is ings. Each scene is a piece of “I just went up to them and was about two BFFs (Maia Mitchell and art,” Kawamura says of the film, like, ‘Hey, how’s it going?’” she Camila Morrone) who just want to which is codirectedbyHayao explains with a laugh. “They get high, not get fired from their Miyazaki collaborator Nobuyuki were like, ‘Why is this weird lady greasy-diner jobs, and maybe Takeuchi and follows a couple talking to us?’” The girls intro- save enough money for a week- traveling through time to perfect duced Moselle to the inclusive end beach getaway. It’s a darkly their budding relationship. community they had carved out funny but ultimately sweet tribute —JOEY NOLFI in NYC’s skate scene, and to teenage friendship, inspired by together, they began developing Frizzell’sown wild adolescence. this spellbinding coming-of-age 6 “Like, why didn’t I end up in jail or tale about the joys and chal- dead?” she says, laughing. “The lenges of being a female skater. Scotty and the more I started exploring it, the —DC Secret History more Irealized thatithad todo with my best friend at the time.” of Hollywood —DEVAN COGGAN 10 D ate 7.27 | D irectedbyMatt Tyrnauer 8 To All theBoys Starri n g Scotty Bowers I’ve Loved Before Searching Rubbing elbows with(and the D ate 8.17 | D irectedbySusan Johnson nether regions of) cinema royals D ate 8.3 Starri n g Lana Condor, John Corbett like Cary Grant and Katharine Directed by Aneesh Chaganty Hepburnp at his same-sex brothel Based on the best-selling YA made Marine–turned–celebrity Starring John Cho, Debra Messing, Michelle La novel by Jenny Han, To All the pimpScottyBowers the unlikely

EE Boys I’ve Loved Before follows keeper of closeted Hollywood’s How well do you really know high school junior Lara Jean

ES E EE your teenage kid? That’s the Covey, who is jostled from her question John Cho contends with comfort zone when private love ( Clockwwise from near left ) Loving Pablo; The in the thriller Searching. He plays letters to five boys—never Catcherr Was a Spy; David, a single father whose intended to be read by their Fireworks, Should We 16-year-old daughter, Margot addressees—are inadvertently See It Frrom the Side or the Botttom? (Michelle La), suddenly disap- mailed out. “LaraJean lives more T DI DIT pears after a study session. The in her head and in a fantasy than ED EE EEG R I E EDITEE EEGGG C E EEES film updates the thriller genre for she does in real life,” says actress the digital age by telling the Lana Condor (X-Men: Apoca- ES EGG T ES EGGGG entire story through computers, lypse). “She is a romantic, but

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my mouth. But it’s too late. He caught me when I was looking the other way. “Oh,” he says. “So when I ask you whether you’ve called the leaders of ISIS, you say no, unequivocally. But when the Speaker asks you whether you’ve called Suliman Cindoruk, your answer is to invoke ‘executive privilege.’ I think the American people can understand the difference.” I blow out air and look over at Carolyn Brock, who maintains that implacable expression, though I can imagine a hint of I as well as anyone that much of what we do told yasoin her narrowed eyes. in the interest of national security cannot be “Congressman Kearns, this is a matter of discussed publicly. I’ve spoken privately to national security. It’s not a game of gotcha. Mrs. Cromartie, and I’m deeply sorry for This is serious business. Whenever you’re what happened to her son. Beyond that, I ready to ask a serious question, I’ll be happy won’t comment. I can’t, and I won’t.” to answer.” “Well, in hindsight, Mr. President,” he EVERYTHING I DID WAS TO PROTECTMY “An American died in that fight in Alge- says, “do you think maybe your policy of country. I’d do it again. The problem is, I ria, Mr. President. An American, a CIA negotiating with terrorists hasn’t worked can’t say any of that. operative named Nathan Cromartie, died out so well?” “All I can tell you is that I have always stopping that anti-Russia militia group from “I don’t negotiate with terrorists.” acted with the security of my country in killing Suliman Cindoruk.Ithink the Ameri- “Whatever you want to call it,” hesays. mind.And Ialways will.” can people consider thatt to be serious.” “Calling them. Hashing things out with I see Carolyn in the corner, reading “Nathan Cromartie was a hero,” I say. them. Coddling them—” something on her phone, responding. I “We mourn his loss. I mourn his loss.” “I don’t coddle—” keep eye contact in case I need to drop “You’ve heardhis mother speak out on The lights flicker overhead, two quick everything and act on it. Something from this,” hesays. blinksof interruption. Some groans in General Burke at CENTCOM? From the I have. We all have. After what happened response, and Carolyn Brock perksup, under secretary of defense? From the in Algeria, we disclosed nothing publicly. writing herself a mental note. Imminent Threat Response Team? We have We couldn’t. But then the militia group The congressman uses the pause to jump a lot of balls in the air right now, trying to published video of a dead American online, in for another question. monitor and defend against this threat. The and it didn’t take long before Clara “You have made no secret, Mr. Presi- other shoe could drop at any minute. We Cromartie identified him as her son, dent, that you prefer dialogue over shows think—we hope—that we have another day, Nathan. She outed him as a CIA operative, of force, that you’d rather talk things out at least. But the only thing that is certain is too. It was one gigantic shitstorm. The with terrorists.” that nothingg is certain. We have to be ready media rushed to her, and within hours she “No,” I say, drawing out the word, my any minute, right now, in case— was demanding to know why her son had to pulse throbbing in my temples, because “Is calling the leaders of ISIS protecting die to protect a terrorist responsible for the that kind of oversimplification epitomizes our country?” deaths of hundreds of innocent people, everything that’s wrong with our politics. “What?” I say, returning my focus to this including many Americans. In her grief and “What I have said repeatedly is that if there hearing. “What are you talking about? I’ve pain, she practically wrote the script for the isaway to peacefully resolve a situation, never called the leaders of ISIS. What does select committee hearing. the peaceful way is the better way. Engaging ISIS have to do with this?” “Don’t you think you owe the Cromartie is not surrendering. Are we here to have a Before I’ve completed my answer, I real- family answers, Mr. President?” foreign-policy debate, Congressman? I’d ize what I’ve done. I wish I could reach out “Nathan Cromartie was a hero,” I say hate to interrupt this witch hunt with a sub- and grab the words and stuff them back in again. “He was a patriot. And he understood stantive conversation.”

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Genre THRILLER ing. You could have said, deterred by the insults I’ve hurled. He is ‘Okay, Mr. President, we are undoubtedly encouraged by the fact that patriots, too, and we will his questions have now firmly found their respect what you’re doing, place under my skin. He is looking at his even if you can’t tell us every- notes again, at his flowchart of questions Bill Clinton and James Patterson thing that’s going on.’ But you andfollow-ups, while I try to calm myself. didn’t dothat, didyou? You “What’s the toughest decision you’ve couldn’t resist the chance to made this week, Mr. Kearns? Which bow tie haul me in and score points. to wear to the hearing? Which side to part So let me say to you publicly your hair for that ridiculous comb-over that what I said to you privately.I isn’t fooling anybody? will not answer your specific “Lately I spend almost all my time trying questions about conversations to keep this country safe. That requires I glance over to the corner of the room, I’ve had or actions that I’ve taken, because tough decisions. Sometimes those deci- where Carolyn Brock winces, a rare break in they are dangerous. They are a threatt to our sions have to be made when there are many her implacable expression. national security. If I have to lose this office unknowns. Sometimes all the options are “Engaging the enemy is one way to put it, to protect this country,Iwill do it. But make flat-out shitty,and I have to choose the Mr. President. Coddling is another way.” no mistake. I have never taken a single least flat-out-shitty one. Of course I won- “I do not coddlee our enemies,” I say. “Nor action, or uttered a single word, without the der if I’ve madetherightcall and whether it do I renounce the use of force in dealingg will work out in theend.SoIjust dothe with them. Force is always an option, but II best I can. And live with it. will not use it unless I deem it necessary.. “That means I also have to live with the That might be hard to understandfor somee criticism, even when it comes from an country club, trust-fundbabywho spent hiss opportunistic political hack picking out one lifechuggingbeer bongsand paddlingg move on the chessboard without knowing pledges in some secret-skull college frater-- what the rest of the game looks like, then nity and calling everybody by their initials,, turning that move inside out without hav- but I have met the enemyhead-on on a bat-- What ing a single clue how much he might be tlefield.Iwill pause before I send our sonss the toughheest endangering our nation. anddaughters into battle, because I was onee decision “Mr. Kearns, I’dliketodiscuss all my of those sons, and I know the risks.” you’ve madde actions withyou, but there are national secu- Jenny is leaning forward, wanting more,, rity considerations that just don’t permit it. I always wanting me to expound on the detailss this week, know you know that, of course. But I also of my military service. Tell them about yourr Mr. Kearns? know it’s hard to pass up an easy cheap shot.” tour of duty. Tell them about your time as aa Which sideto In the corner, Danny Akers has his hands POW. Tell them about your injuries, the torture.. part your up, signaling for a time-out. It was an endless struggle during the cam-- “Yeah, you know what? You’re right, paign, one of thethings about me that testedd haiirfor that Danny. It’s time. I’m done with this. This is the most favorably. If my advisers had theirr ridiculous over. We’re done.” way, it would have been just about the onlyy comb-oover I lash out and whack the microphone off thing I ever discussed. But I never gave in.. thatisn’t thetable. I knock over my chair as I get to Some things you just don’t talk about. my feet. X “Are you finished, Mr. Pres—” fooling The President Is Missing © 2018 by James Patterson and LINTON AND PATTERSON: DAVID BURNETT

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Author TOMMY ORANGE Believers

Date 6.5 | Genre FICTION Author REBECCA MAKKAI READS Date 6.19 | Genre FICTION A vibrant tapestry of Native American life in Oakland, There Makkai (The Hundred-Year House) There is one of the year’s most has written her most ambitious exciting debuts. Crafted around novel yet with this time-shifting a dozen characters, each on epic. Juxtaposing the journeys of their own complicated path—a a gay man in ’80s Chicago losing FOR 2018 newly sober woman hoping to friends to AIDS, and a woman in win back her family, a man trying contemporary Paris searching for to honor his late uncle’s mem- her estranged daughter, The ory—it brings them together in a Great Believers asks big ques- grand, heartbreaking finale at Tense thrillers, brilliant debuts, tions about redemption, tragedy, a huge community gathering. and connection. —DC juicy memoirs, a short story based Orange created a diverse on Rihanna’s life—it’s the best time ensemble because, he says, his community has stayed “voice- THE TELL-ALL of year to restock your bookshelf less” for so long in popular cul- with a little bit of everything ture. “[It’s] about wanting to From the Corner express a range of voices within Photographs by BEN TRIVETT [the Native] community, to give of the Oval

an idea of who these people Author BECK DOREY-STEIN are,” he explains. The book’s pro- fundity stems from its prologue, Date 7.10 | Genre MEMOIR a mini-history of Native Ameri- can life. For Orange, beginning Dorey-Stein was working at a on such an encompassing note Lululemon store when she was key. “I’ve always loved what answered a Craigslist ad prologues can do,” he says. “As and became a White House Native people, we have a history stenographer. She regales of learning bad history—and readers with tales of the Obama not only not hearing our stories, administration, including her but hearing [them] told wrong.” afair with a high-level POTUS —DAVID CANFIELD stafer. —SEIJA RANKIN BOOKS

THE RIRI READ THE #METOO NOVEL THE SATIRE THE Y.A. SMASH How to Love a Any Man French Exit A Reaper at Jamaican Author AMBER TAMBLYN Author PATRICK DEWITT the Gates Author ALEXIA ARTHURS Date 6.26 | Genre FICTION Date 8.28 | Genre COMEDY Author SABAA TAHIR

Date 7.24 | Genre SHORT STORIES Date 6.12 | Genre FANTASY Tamblyn’s harrowingly sharp first White-collar crime is the milieu novel introduces a group of men of choice for this outrageous Arthurs’ collection of short sto- The third book in Tahir’s series, who’ve been sexually victimized family romp from deWitt ries tackles the immigrant expe- Reaper returns to a realm by “Maude,” a female predator (The Sisters Brothers). A caustic rience, exploring it through the that’s part ancient Rome, part eluding authorities, and show- older woman and her adult prism of family. One particular Middle Eastern antiquity, cases their voices as they’re son—oh, and his slowly dying story that’s sure to attract buzz: and part otherworldly. It begins engulfed in a media frenzy. “I cat—are forced to flee New York “Shirley From a Small Place,” in with the slave girl–turned– wanted to [show] men as emo- for Paris and escape scandal, which a world-famous pop star— rebel leader Laia leading her tional creatures, which isn’t very only for things to get (hilariously) based on Rihanna—retreats to oppressed Scholar people common in stories and narratives worse. —DC her mother’s new house in her through the wilderness while about men and masculinity, while birthplace of Jamaica. Arthurs trying to amass allies to fight also showing how we mytholo- extensively researched Rihanna’s against a mystical foe known as gize women,” says the Joan of THE NSFW connection to her native Barba- the Nightbringer. In the capital, Arcadia actress. The book is land- dos, even following Rihanna’s Commandant Keris Veturia ing as the #MeToo movement mom on Instagram. “I was trying Wicked and manipulates the unstable young continues to gain steam, and it’s to figure out who this person Emperor, while his right-hand no accident that Tamblyn, 35, is the Wallflower was,” she explains. “[Rihanna’s] oficer, Helene Aquilla, known subverting expectations with the Author SARAH MACLEAN childhood best friend is even her by the title of Blood Shrike, tries novel’s gender dynamic. She best friend! That’s beautiful but Date 6.19 | Genre ROMANCE to steer the government back calls making men the victims an surprising.... I was struck that onto a sane course. attempt to “de-gender the con- [Rihanna] seemed so tied to MacLean wades into the sinful Deep breath. And there’s still versation around sexual assault where she’s from, even as her life side of 1830s London with a tale a book 4 coming. “Our charac- and pain,” and to indicate that no has changed so drastically.” —DC of vengeance in the first book ters, Laia especially, have been one can escape culpability in this of a planned trilogy. Searching irrevocably altered by the terri- ongoing, dificult moment of for the “beauty in darkness,” ble things they have seen and reckoning: “The novel felt like an MacLean goes gritty within a experienced,” Tahir says. “She’s indictment of our culture and an world rife with vice and tempta- more courageous, but bravery indictment of people who— tion. —MAUREEN LEE LENKER has its consequences, and including myself and most read- sometimes they are pretty ugly.” ers—are either complicit or —ANTHONY BREZNICAN complacent when it comes to the culture of rape.” —DC

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THE HOT SEQUEL THE FAMILY EPIC THE IMMIGRANT TALE THE BIG DEBUT How to Be A Place for Us A River of The Incendiaries

Famous Author FATIMA FARHEEN MIRZA Stars Author R.O. KWON

Author CAITLIN MORAN Date 6.12 | Genre FICTION Author VANESSA HUA Date 7.31 | Genre FICTION

Date 7.3 | Genre FICTION Date 8.14 | Genre FICTION A Place for Us may be the first A decade ago, Kwon set out to book to come out of Sarah pen her debut novel and wound The sequel to 2014’s raunchy, Celeste Ng and Emma Cline are Jessica Parker’s newly minted up spending years just rework- hilarious best-seller How to Build just a few authors to have imprint, SJP for Hogarth, but ing the first 20 pages. “I’m a a Girl revisits public-housing already sung the praises of this Mirza, 27, is about to become a maniac about sentences,” she resident–turned–music-journalist A River of Stars star in her own right. The debut powerful debut. says. “I wanted them to be per- wunderkind Johanna Morrigan. author brings us the thinking centers on a pregnant woman fect.” Kwon’s original idea for It’s 1995 and she’s 18, living in person’s summer read, a rich who emigrates from China with The Incendiaries was based on London during the heyday of the and layered tale about family an eye toward the American her teenage years in California, Britpop scene and hobnobbing and assimilation. Place follows dream, and traces her deter- when she was a devout Christian with the rich and fabulous—until an Indian Muslim family living in mined journey to manifest it for and then experienced what she an unfortunate one-night stand California as they prepare for the herself. —DC describes as a “cataclysmic” loss with a bad-boy comedian leads wedding of eldest daughter of faith. Couple those emotions to a sex tape and some serious Hadia, who broke from tradition with a deep-seated interest in THE DYSTOPIA public shaming. “It was crazy and chose her husband. The cults, homegrown terrorists, because I was writing this book nuptials also beget the return of Vox and North Korean labor camps as the Harvey Weinstein stuf an estranged son and more than (where she has distant family started to break,” says Moran, a few crises of culture. It’s based Author CHRISTINA DALCHER roots), and the book was born. 43. “This allowed me to...be on a struggle that Mirza herself The story follows Will and Date 8.21 Genre DYSTOPIAN more truthful—that the only way knows. “I always felt both inside | Phoebe, a couple at an exclusive to reverse shame is to not keep it and outside of the faith and East Coast college, as they a secret and talk about it.” But culture of my family,” she says. In the wake of Hulu’s Handmaid’s simultaneously fall in love and Famous isn’t just about the dark “Writing about this fictional fam- Tale adaptation—and the volatile become entangled in an extrem- side of sex. “I also wanted to ily allowed me to return to my political climate that helped ist group hell-bent on violently write a really positive, realistic home with curiosity and love.” popularize it—urgent feminist disrupting abortion clinics. It’s sex scene,” says Moran, about a —SR dystopian fiction is all over pub- not quite a mystery, not quite a love story between Johanna and lishing right now. The latest in love story—exactly how Kwon her best friend. “If I can dictate the trend is Vox, Dalcher’s vision wanted it. “So many love stories what young girls masturbate to of a near-future America in are mysteries, too, right?” she for the next 10 years, I’d like it to which women are allowed to says. “Love is so strange in and be lovely, beautiful sex. And then speak a maximum of 100 words of itself.” —SR I can retire.” —CLARISSA CRUZ per day. —DC

66 EW.COM SUMMER PREVIEW 2018 THE DISRUPTER THE WHODUNIT THE EYE-OPENER THE TEEN DRAMA I Can’t Date Providence How Are You All We Ever Jesus Author CAROLINE KEPNES Going to Save Wanted Author MICHAEL ARCENEAUX Date 6.19 | Genre FICTION Yourself? Author EMILY GIFFIN Date 7.24 | Genre ESSAYS Author JM HOLMES Date 6.26 | Genre FICTION Author of the twisted love stories You and Hidden Bodies, Date 8.21 | Genre SHORT STORIES Arceneaux, a frequent Essence Gifin, the best-selling author of former EW stafer Kepnes here and Complex contributor, has compulsively readable rom-com veers into the paranormal. Provi- Save Yourself follows the lives of built up a robust following with tales like Something Borrowed, dence concerns two friends, Jon four friends as they drift apart his wry commentary on every- takes on a more serious subject and Chloe, who are separated and come back together, navi- thing from race to sexuality to with her latest, which hinges on when the former is kidnapped, gating adulthood as black men popular culture. His first book, I a social-media scandal among only for him to reappear four living with traumatic legacies Can’tDateJesus, expands on high schoolers at an elite private years later with no memory of who have been ofered very dif- what readers have come to love, school in Nashville. “The issues the time in between. “I was pull- ferent fortunes as they come of while also ofering a glimpse of raised in the book—including ing into one of my least favorite age. Holmes’ searing study of his own life story: his develop- privilege and entitlement, and parking garages in L.A. when I masculinity is ofset by irresist- ment as a proud gay black man, the challenges of raising kind, almost drove into another car,” ible heart and biting humor. —DC his coming-out story, how artists compassionate children in a says the author about the day like Lil’ Kim and Janet Jackson materialistic, achievement- she started writing the book. “It helped him shape his identity. crazed, all-too-often sexist soci- made me flash back to other THE THRILLER Arceneaux calls ICan’tDate ety—not only feel timely, but are near misses in my life. I thought Jesus “a mix of humor and also deeply personal to me as a of the moments in life when you pathos,” and confesses it’s taken Something in mother of twin teenage sons and meet someone wonderful, but a long time to get it published. the Water a daughter approaching middle the timing is wrong. On the way “The word niche was used a lot,” school,” says the author. —CC home, I heard Jon’s voice in my Author CATHERINE STEADMAN he recalls of meetings with pub- head, a kid who’s surviving by lishers and agents. “And some- Date 6.5 | Genre THRILLER banking on the future. And then body told me in so many words I heard Chloe, his best friend, that ‘white people didn’t care This haunting tale from the British struggling to adjust to his about black people that much.’ actress (Downton Abbey) follows absence. Providence is about the Those were two notions that I newlyweds as they discover a bag supernatural power of love, and rejected.” —DC of money in Bora Bora. They make the monsters we become, or an ill-fated decision to open it, don’t become, when luck isn’t and the consequences take them on our side.” —CC past the point of no return. —SR

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PH T RAPH B AKE HE I didn’t have any way to understand certain segments of the story that are thornier and meaner.” Having seen the ﬁlm didn’t always help. “The movie made me uncomfortable,” recalls de Jesús, whoplays the ﬂamboyant Emory. “I had seen bits of it and got homophobic as a kid. The scene I remember is the guys doing the ‘Heat Wave’ de Jesús, Parsons, and Rannells dance, and I saw the gaggle of gays and I was like, ‘Change the WHITE/TRACEY MATTINGLY, QUINTO AND JESUS’ GROOMER: JOANNA GROOMER: JESUS’ AND QUINTO MATTINGLY, WHITE/TRACEY

channel.’” Quinto, whose birthday boy, “We all had some very deep conversations,” For others, the issue of relevance was S YIT TPAI TRICOLA STEPHANIE TYLIST: Harold, spews some of the play’s most Mantello recalls. “There’s a shorthand in a quickly resolved. “There is some essential barbed dialogue, almost didn’t sign on. “I group of gay men that allowed us to delve into queerness that is captured in this play,” had misgivings about doing it and asked a lot complicated issues.” says Carver, the youngest cast member at of questions, like, ‘Do you feel connected to For some, that meant making peace with 29, who plays Cowboy, a hustler who is one this? Do you feel inspired by this? Do you the play. “It’s easy to dismiss the piece as of Harold’s birthday gifts. “Joe always said, / feel that this resonates?’” just a study in self-loathing,” says Bomer, ‘I dare you to find the difference between WASH WATKINS, ARTISTS, HONEY It took three days last July to convince who plays Michael’s friend and former Oh, Mary, don’t ask and Yas, queen.’” For some of the cast. Producer Ryan Murphyand toothbrush-sharer, Donald. “But once you Washington, each performance raises new director Joe Mantello gathered their guys for go back pre-Stonewall and you see that it questions about a play that doesn’t shy intense days of acting andhonest talk. was a crime for these men to even have rela- away from homophobic, anti-Semitic, and (Rehearsals were scheduled around Parsons’ tions in thesafety of their own homes, much racist slurs. “This journey, which is ongoing I Big Bang Theoryy schedule because Mantello less go out anddance in public, there was no for me, is about how muchhas changed and DEZARATE GROOMER:MELISSA BOMER’S AND NGTON PE was so confident this role would be his “Mary outlet for this internalizedhomophobia how muchhas not.” NSINGER-FORD/THE WALL GROUP, AND CARVER’S RANNELLS GROOME Tyler Moore in Ordinary Peoplee moment.”) other than out toward the people you love.” The one recurring refrain among the group is that of profound gratitude for being a part of this limited run. (Boys dis-

Hutchison, Carver, and Watkins; Bomer, Washington, and Quinto bands on Aug. 11.) “The thought that I wouldn’t have done this play and I would have had to come and see it is a total night- mare, really,” says Quinto. “This part of myself I spent years trying to reckon with / or outrun or deny, both in my personal life HUT DEPARTMENT, ART and my career, is now the triumph that we all get to celebrate on stagetogether.” Parsons adds: “It’s been a chance to explore R: C ERIN ANDERSON aspects of myself and self-doubt like noth- PARSONS AND HISON ing I’ve ever worked on. My character is trying to spin plates in the air while keeping /

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What did you enjoy about playing the narcissistic actress Daphne in Ocean’s 8? I just enjoyed cursing so much. I enjoyed the selfishness of her, but what I really enjoyed was getting to figure out where her blind spots were.... She’s working so hard to be refined and sophisticated, but she just so clearly isn’t that. I feel like Daphne is like my shadow self, and I feel like you can either use fame to do good for other people and use it to get nice restaurant reservations for yourself, or it can really take over and become your entire identity.

Howwasitworkingwiththe powerhouse cast [which includes Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, and Rihanna]? The only person I spent any real time with was Helena [Bonham Carter]. By the end of it, we were all really chummy, and it’s just continued after the movie. We’re all really friends and there for each other. If someone—myself included—is going through something, everyone has everyone’s back and everyone’s always encouraging each other. I don’t think any of us knew that Anne Hathaway in Ocean’s 8 was going to happen, but it’s really genuine and—gosh, I don’t want to gush too much, but it is reshaping the way I think about movies and how to be in a cast.

THE DEVIL Daphne has a meltdown during a dress fitting, and Helena’s BARRY WETCHER/WARNER BROS. fashion-designer character Rose soothes her by saying she has the “best neck in the busi- WEARS DIAMONDS ness.” Was there some reality to those scenes? From walking the halls of Runway magazine in The Devil Wears Prada to donning a heistworthy It was a combination of the way necklace at the Met Gala in Ocean’s 8, Anne Hathaway comes full circle. BY PIYA SINHA-ROY I sometimes felt in fittings and

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STARRING Alden Ehrenreich, Donald Glover, Emilia Clarke

REEL Triple Threat Halle Berry and Anjelica Huston are joining DIRECTED BY Ron Howard | RATING PG-13 NEWS Keanu Reeves for John Wick 3, due May 17, 2019. LENGTH 2 hrs., 15 mins. Yes, He Cannes Spike Lee won his first in-competition award at Cannes for BlacKkKlansman, spurring Oscar talk. REVIEW BY Chris Nashawaty @ChrisNashawaty

WHEN WE FIRST MET HAN SOLO IN STAR Wars, he was so charismatic that it never crossed your mind to wonder what his back- story was. What was he doing at Mos Eisley? Why did he have a Wookiee co-pilot? How did he manage to pull off the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs? You just accepted it because he was so damn cool. He was the kind of guy who shot first and asked questions later (R.I.P. Greedo). Now, 41 years on, we have the answers to those questions, thanks to Ron Howard’s good-not-great Solo: A Star Wars Story. As the film opens, it’s jarring to see someone other than Harrison Ford as the intergalactic rogue. Played by Alden Ehrenreich (Hail, Caesar!), young Solo begins the film Hathaway, Meryl Streep, and Emily Blunt in The Devil Wears Prada doing what he’s always done best: trying to talk his also some of the ridiculous I feel that with every film that I’m way out of a jam, this time alongside his love, Qi’ra things I’ve either had said to me in, because whether I’m one of (Emilia Clarke). Without giving much away, the or have overheard said to other eight or the only woman in the couple are separated and Han hooks up with a band of people to build up your confi- cast, I feel I’m always repping mercenaries (Woody Harrelson, Thandie Newton, dence. The most ridiculous one something bigger than myself. I ever heard was somebody I imagine most actresses feel and L3-37—a droid voiced by Phoebe Waller-Bridge) going—not to me—“Oh my God, that way. One of the things that to pull off a heist so that he can be reunited with Qi’ra. you have such a fierce armpit.” gives me heart is there are a lot But if there was ever a character for whom happily-ever- The level of ego-stroking and of female-driven comedies com- after wasn’t in the cards, it’s Han. The best moments ego-inflating that can occur is so ing out this summer.... Wonder ridiculous, it was so much fun to Woman has been such a game are learning the missing jigsaw pieces in Solo’s ori- poke fun at that. changer for so many of us. Also gins: How he met Chewbacca (Joonas Suotamo), how with Time’s Up, there’s a real he got that chip the size of Alderaan on his shoulder, Daphne’s the opposite of your impetus within the industry to and how he won the Millennium Falcon from Lando Devil Wears Prada character, make these movies and prioritize the tormented fashion assistant these, which is really exciting. Calrissian (Donald Glover, the best thing in the Andy, but they inhabit the same movie). But it’s not enough to hang an entire film on. Vogue world. How did it feel to You took some time away from

: LUCASFILM LTD. Solo feels like a palate cleanser before the next big return to that? acting after you had your son. B I hadn’t thought about it like Nowthatyou’reback,youseem course. Nothing more, nothing less. that, but some of my favorite like you’re having fun with your Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Alden Ehrenreich, and Donald Glover films that I’ve gotten to do have projects. had a fashion element to them, Something about motherhood and I enjoy the creativity of it, has allowed me to find and priori-

SOLO: A STAR WARSSOLO: STORY STAR A and I enjoy movies in which tize my chill, and going onto set everyone looks great and put- with seven astonishing women together.… Can you imagine really made me want to not leave Andy interviewing Daphne? that chill. I so didn’t want to be That would be so fun and the one that messed it up by get- trainwreck-y. ting nervous, so I feel like my son : BARRY WETCHER/FOX; brought about this new approach, There’s a pressure that if and working with these women Ocean’s 8 doesn’t perform at reinforced it, and it’s feeling good the box ofice, people might not and I am having fun, and it turns support female-driven movies. out you can still do good work

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Ibiza STARRING Gillian Jacobs, Vanessa Bayer, Relics of Rogers Phoebe Robinson The sweater. The sneakers. It’s easy to think of these things DIRECTED BY Alex Richanbach when your mind turns to Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood and the man who made that show feel like home. But the new feel-good RATING NR | LENGTH 1 hr., 34 mins. documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (in theaters June 8) REVIEW BY Chris Nashawaty @ChrisNashawaty reveals much more about the late Fred Rogers and his philoso- phy. Oscar-winning director Morgan Neville (20 Feet From

YOU WON’T SEE MUCH OF IBIZA Stardom) discusses three other objects that represent Mister Rogers’ bravery and enduring decency. BY ANTHONY BREZNICAN in the amusingly forgettable singles-ready-to-mingle comedy ( Clockwise from top left ) Fred Rogers with Daniel Striped inspired by its name. It takes a good 45 Tiger; putting on his signature sweater; Jeff Erlanger; Rogers and minutes for the film’s three on-the-hunt François Clemmons New Yorkers (Gillian Jacobs, Vanessa Bayer, and Phoebe Robinson) to blaze their way through Barcelona and its smoldering stable of menfolk ﬁrst. Once the women do set foot on the Mediterranean paradise, they’re pretty much relegated to a thump- ing nightclub where they do Ecstasy, make a series of bad decisions, and take an empowering sort of joy in embarrassing themselves. Written by Lauryn Kahn and directed by Alex Richanbach, this Netﬂix romp is the sort of silly schizophrenic shambles you get when you spice up wheezy rom-com clichés with a pinch of Hangover raunch (there’s one hilarious hotel semen-stain gag, and a bird poops in Bayer’s mouth). But most of the laughs are milder than that, even with Will Ferrell and Adam McKay producing. More than anything, its a trial balloon for the relative star power of Jacobs, who’s been promoted from best friend to headliner here. As a somewhat neurotic pushover who finally stands up to her overbearing boss after meeting and falling for an impossibly charming world-famous DJ (Richard Mad- den), the Community actress is appealing enough to deserve a second shot, preferably in a slightly better movie. B–

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“It was a lonely childhood,” Morgan Neville says of Fred Rogers’ upbring- ing. “I think he made friends with himself as much as he could. He had a ventriloquist dummy, he had [stufed] animals, and he would create his own worlds in his childhood bedroom.” That—the director says— is where the famed puppets in the Land of Make-Believe on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood came from. There are two Daniel puppets, a lead and a backup, that are now on dis- play: one at the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, the other at the Fred Rogers Center in Latrobe, Pa., where Rogers grew up.

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The show launched in 1968, at the peak of the civil rights struggle, and Rogers cast singer-dancer François BETTY GABRIEL: DON’T Clemmons, a black man, as the local police oficer. But a simple, plastic baby pool gave Oficer Clemmons CALL HER ASCREAM QUEEN and Mister Rogers the chance to make a point at a time when blacks The Get Out star talks about her new sci-fi action-horror and whites didn’t share water foun- movie Upgrade (out June 1), the Unfriended sequel, and the tains, bathrooms, or pools. In a time she delivered sushi to Jordan Peele. BY CLARK COLLIS scene from 1969 (later re-created by the men in 1993), Oficer Clemmons stops by on a hot day, and Rogers Talk about your role in Upgrade. with your future Get Out invites him to literally cool his heels Did you do any research for it? director, Jordan Peele... with him. “It is so odd that they’re... I play a down-to-earth I was working in restaurants, sitting around singing songs to each detective who cares about jus- I was doing sushi delivery—after other. But it’s so emblematic of what tice, who cares about people. graduating from Juilliard, which Fred did. He decides to make a When I saw it I was like, “Oh, was pretty humbling. But not statement in his very quiet way, that wow, I’m really cool!” But I’ve everyone comes out of Juilliard it’s okay for black and white people also played—what did I play a and is immediately Viola Davis. to share a pool, to share a space, to cop in? Oh, yes [laughs], my Not every Viola Davis was imme- share a friendship.” four lines in Beyond Skyline.So diately Viola Davis after Juilliard. JEFF ERLANGER’S WHEELCHAIR I’ve done a lot of research, actually, and a lot of interviews Didhegiveyouagoodtip? Erlanger was a 10-year-old quadri- of police. I try to do real-world He did tip me well, but I didn’t plegic who, in 1981, rode into the exploration. leave thinking, “Oh, he’s a good Neighborhood on his electric wheel- tipper.” I left thinking, “Oh my chair. Mister Rogers asked why he You’re also in the horror God, that’s Jordan f---ing Peele!” was in the chair (spinal tumors) sequel Unfriended: Dark Web and had the boy demonstrate its [in theaters July 20], where I’ve seen you referred to as maneuvers. Then they duetted on a the action plays out on a a scream queen. How do you familiar song, “It’s You I Like,” the computer screen. What was feel about the term? lyrics focused on the visitor and “not that experience like? I never scream. I’ve, like, your fancy chair.” “Fred often said I’m one of the young people that screamed in one movie. [But] that was his favorite moment of the are hanging out, playing some I find it cool to be a genre per- show. It was normalizing the kind of sort of game via Skype. We son. We don’t see people of thing that we tend to brush under rehearsed for a week, and then color as prominent representa- the carpet in our society,” Neville we just did our thing, so it was tions in horror. We know The says. “Fred felt that diferences are actually quite freeing. Some- Stepford Wives,weknowThe all superficial, that underneath it all times TV and film work can be so Addams Family, The Shining, and we all have the same fears and we technical. Here it was just, “Go!” they’re always white. I think it’s all have the same hopes. He looked cool to be branded into people’s at people as humans first and our Before becoming a full-time mind and scare them in their physical condition second.” actor, you had an encounter sleep—and be a black woman.

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American Animals

STARRING Evan Peters, Barry Keoghan, Blake Jenner, Jared Abrahamson

DIRECTED BY Bart Layton

RATING R | LENGTH 1 hr., 56 mins.

REVIEW BY Leah Greenblatt @Leahbats

A MOVIE CUSTOM-MADE FOR THE Barry Keoghan and Evan Peters era of alternative facts, American Animals feels like a new kind of up for anything, including Spencer’s idle idea Writer-director Bart Layton’s approach is true-crime thriller: one that shamelessly to rob the college’s collection of premium rare half forensic, half surreal, a docudrama rewrites its truths in real time as it goes. books—particularly its crown jewel, John bedazzled by fourth-wall breaks and Inspired by the so-called Transy Book James Audubon’s Birds of America. How hard winking what-ifs. It’s bravura look-at-me Heist, Animals tells the story of Spencer could it be to knock out a librarian, grab the ﬁlmmaking, and undeniably fun. But as the Reinhard (played here by both Dunkirk’s goods, and fence them on the black market? Reservoir Dogs swagger yields to reality, he Barry Keoghan and Reinhard himself), a Well, ﬁrst they need to learn what a fence is. strikes a deeper chord, too: These boys may college kid marking time at Kentucky’s But soon the pair are giddy with homework: be callow and foolish and terrible at grand Transylvania University, and his friend mapping out exit routes, planning disguises, larceny, but they aren’t animals. They’re Warren Lipka (Evan Peters, also splitting with studying a stack of helpful DVDs (Ocean’s misguided believers in another kind of THE ORCHARD the actual Lipka). A wild-haired man-child Eleven, The Italian Job)—and recruiting two American dream—the myth of the cool- with a perpetual joint in his mouth and a new co-conspirators, Eric (Jared Abraham- eyed outlaw who takes what he wants, and shaky T. rex tattooed on his bicep, Warren is son) and Chas (Blake Jenner). always walks away clean. B+

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ADRIFT BOOK CLUB | Directed by Bill Holderman Starring Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, BY PIYA SINHA-ROY Candice Bergen, Mary Steenburgen W Jane Fonda and Diane Keaton lead an ensemble romp whose The Big Little Lies actress was pushed to jokes don’t always hit, but whose subject—a sex comedy for extremes for Baltasar Kormákur’s survival women over 65!—feels like a small Hollywood miracle. B drama (out June 1), as she and Sam Claflin team up for the real-life story of a DEADPOOL 2 | Directed by David Leitch couple stranded on the ocean after a hur- Starring Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin, Julian Dennison W ricane throws their sailboat hundreds of Ryan Reynolds returns as the comics hero and is more meta miles of course. Below, Woodley outlines than ever in a manic, winky sequel. Until it wears you out it’s her biggest challenges during the six- a dizzy kind of fun, like eating Twinkies on a Gravitron. B week shoot in waters of the coast of Fiji. MARY SHELLEY | Directed by Haifaa Al-Mansour FIGHTING HUNGER Starring Elle Fanning, Douglas Booth, Bel Powley L A missed opportunity of monstrous proportions, this con- “We had to lose quite a bit of weight vention-bound period piece about the Frankenstein author as the movie progressed, so we really (Elle Fanning) and her rocky romance with the poet Percy weren’t eating much, and that was the Bysshe Shelley (Douglas Booth) is unforgivably flat. C most dificult part—being out at sea ON CHESIL BEACH | Directed by Dominic Cooke and participating in physical activities Starring Saoirse Ronan, Billy Howle L with very little fuel in our systems. In a role far from her unleashed Lady Bird, Saoirse Ronan That’s when I taught myself about my stars with Billy Howle in novelist Ian McEwan’s quietly dev- endurance.” astating story of naive newlyweds in early-’60s England. B

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CARGO fascinating. That alone was really inspiring and made me reflect on my CARGO | Directed by Yolanda Ramke N personal life, how dependent I am on Starring Martin Freeman, Simone Landers, Anthony Hayes technology. Had [my character] Tami After he is infected by a zombie virus, Andy (Martin Free- : COLIN GRAY/MAGNOLIA PICTURES COLIN GRAY/MAGNOLIA : not known how to use a sextant, she man) must find a safe haven for his infant daughter beforee B wouldn’t have been able to survive.” he goes full undead in this Australian-outback-set horror. SUMMER 1993 | Directed by Carla Simón OCEAN’S NAUSEA Starring Laia Artigas, Paula Robles, Bruna Cusí L This luminous portrait of a little girl sent to live in the Span- “The first day,y, we all went out on sea.

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IT’S ALL RELATIVE One is a drama, the other is a comedy, but HBO’s Succession and Netflix’s Arrested Development are more like twins than you might think. BY DARREN FRANICH

AMERICA LOVES DYNASTIES, That same week, HBO’s new Comparisons are obvious, sex scandal, a forced “date” especially when they collapse. series Succession exports the probably unintentional. Succes- with a subordinate. You worry Back in the mid-2000s, when family-feud concept skyward sion is its own disappointing a point has been missed. (Men Arrested Development was the into the globalized Manhattan creation, imbalancing awful who don’t know better, quelle best comedy on television, cre- elite. Logan Roy (Brian Cox) is rimshot laugh lines with awful tragique!!!) Any resemblance ator Mitch Hurwitz tracked the a Rupert Murdoch-esque media mawkish drama: hooker jokes to real-life media-tycoon families downward spiral of the Bluths of titan on the verge of retirement. and health scares, lame bro- is strongly encouraged—and Orange County. It was hilarious, His devoted son Kendall (Jer- banter alongside soulful staring Succession is some kind of suc- and eerily predictive. They had emy Strong) thinks he’s next in montages. The actors all got cess, if the point is to prove the a housing crisis five years before line. By the end of the pilot, he different memos. Strong is on Murdochs are boring as hell. the rest of us. They talked about realizes he’s not—just like Jason a morose social comedy, Cox The Bluths are never boring. a Great Border Wall when every- Bateman’s Michael way back is doing CEO Lear, and my favor- But Arrested Development is now one still realized that was a joke. in Arrested’s premiere. Kendall’s ite Culkin delivers lines like one reboot among many, the TV The first three seasons could still siblings line up Bluth-ily: a sneer- he’s waiting for a laugh track equivalent of a new record from be ripped from our headlines, ingly ambitious brother (Kieran to rescue him. Creator Jesse your favorite ’90s band. (Not a especially if you assume Jared Culkin), a loopy half-brother Armstrong wrote for the great bad thing—I’m the dope still lis- ADYANI/NETFLIX SAEED Kushner likes denim shorts. (Alan Ruck) seeking parental British politicom The Thick of It, tening to Weezer’s last album.) After a 2013 revival more approval, a sister (Sarah Snook) but his attempt at media satire Season 5’s joke-per-minute ratio discussed than loved, Arrested who should have more screen doesn’t convince. Two male is high. Deadpan Bateman is still re-returns to Netflix on May 29 time, her paramour (Matthew executives accidentally fall into TV’s best straight man—unlike with the first half of season 5. Macfadyen), who nobody likes. #MeToo-ish subplots: a secret Tobias!—and Alia Shawkat’s

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LOGLINES Obama Nation Barack and Michelle have signed a 4Questions multiyear deal to produce films and series for Netflix. Rave Return Kim Raver has been reinstated as a series regular on Grey’s Anatomy. About 13Reasons 13 Reasons Why creator Brian Yorkey breaks down the biggest moments from season 2 of his Netflix hit (now streaming). BY SAMANTHA HIGHFILL (Fromfar left )The Bluth family is Arrested; Hannah returns as a ghost?! continuing the conversation the Succes- I don’t like to put a word on around sexual assault in high sion siblings it—some people believe in school, and this was a story ghosts, some people think that was not largely told. maybe Clay [Dylan Minnette] is cracking up. We were Why did you choose to interested in Clay’s grieving write about a thwarted process and his state of school shooting? mind. One of our big themes We wrote that scene, and was recovery and healing, then Parkland happened. and we wanted to see Clay On the day we were sched- get to a point where he uled to premiere, Santa Fe could say, “I love you, Han- happened. It’s heartbreak- nah, but I’m letting you go.” ing. High school kids have to confront the reality that they What was the thinking may show up to school and behind having Tyler experi- get shot. We’re a drama, Maeby is more prominent, a (Michael Cera) replays the old ence sexual assault? but the darkness is unfortu- next-generation Bluth hustler. lightsaber gag. Gob (Will Arnett) We wanted to see Tyler nately not all our creation. Season 4 had a bold binge is proving he’s straight, like [Devin Druid] really trying to structure, splitting characters Tobias (David Cross) never make positive choices, but to Is this the end of have those choices derailed. Hannah’s story? on separate journeys. It didn’t could. New ideas are hit-or-miss. We realized Bryce [Justin Should we get a season 3, quite work, but the cure is worse Lindsay is running for office on Prentice] would break with the loss of Hannah will con- than the disease. Episodes are a platform of populist stupidity, Monty [Timothy Granaderos], tinue to be the inciting trau- plotty as ever, requiring constant which would be funnier if actress and Monty would act out. matic event, but I don’t see Ron Howard recaps for subplots Portia de Rossi weren’t so obvi- We researched and found a tremendous continued from 2013. But the structure is ously beamed in from planet many cases like this—male presence for Hannah. There haphazard. In the middle of the Greenscreen. high school athletes violat- is lots more to know about fourth episode, there is a fade-out Any TV revival suffers from ing weaker kids with mop these characters but the for a nonexistent commercial its own influence, and few shows handles or pool cues. We are spotlight focus on Hannah a show that is interested in Baker is probably done. break, then a fade-in, then How- were more influential than ard narrating the thing that just Arrested. Even dumb life imitated happened—a recap for anyone its profound art. Next month, who fell asleep, I guess. The if all goes as planned, two ego- trademark callbacks feel more maniac-led dynasties will meet in repetitive than they used to. Singapore to decide our species’ Michael keeps on leaving the nuclear future. All together now: : BETH DUBBER/NETFLIX BETH : family and returning—an origin We’ve made a huge mistake! story that is now his sole obvious Arrested Development C+ character trait. George-Michael Succession C 13 REASONS13 WHY

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where “houses” of gay and trans- STARS SHARE THEIR Pose PERSONAL STORIES ABOUT gender performers compete for GIVING BACK DATE Debuts June 3 | TIME 9 p.m. trophies in events called balls.

NETWORK FX Blanca’s goal as “house mother” is to support her children as they REVIEW BY Kristen Baldwin @KristinGBaldwin work to achieve their dreams. Those dreams are what Pose is made of: GROUNDBREAKING YET Does Damon have what it takes to traditional, unique succeed at a prestigious dance acad- yet wonderfully old- emy? Will transgender beauty Angel fashioned, Pose is the Fame we all (Indya Moore) find happiness with wanted Rise to be. The FX drama— her businessman boyfriend Stan set in the ball culture of 1980s New (Evan Peters), even though he’s got York City—has made headlines for a wife (Kate Mara) at home? Pose’s its ensemble of transgender actors, characters are unconventional, but but the show’s message of inclusiv- the stories—about ambition, accep- ity never overshadows its mission tance, love, family—are universal. to tell relatable stories meant to Newcomer Rodriguez is raw and delight the drama queen in all of us. natural as Blanca, and Tony winner The opening sequence is as deli- Billy Porter exhibits astonishing ciously outlandish as you’d expect range as Pray Tell, a designer whose JAMIE CHUNG HELPS from a show co-created by Ryan commentary at the balls bursts FEED AMERICA Murphy: A statuesque diva named with exuberant sass. With her regal Elektra Abundance (Dominique bearing, Jackson brings a scathing CHARITY WHAT THEY DO Jackson) and her crew of LGBTQ force to Elektra’s many one-liners Feeding America (www. Through a network of feedingamerica.org) food banks, they work to “children” steal armloads of royal (“You are the Cracker Barrel to my reduce food waste and raiment from a museum and hustle Gucci and Saint Laurent!”), while get well-balanced meals to the hungry the stolen goods downtown to a James Van Der Beek is hilariously ballroom so they can strut their over-the-top as Matt, Stan’s coke- stuff. Meanwhile, a young black snorting, big-spending boss at the WHY SHE TOOK ACTION teen named Damon (Ryan Jamaal Trump Organization. Swain) is kicked out of the house For all of its ballroom flash and The Gifted star has worked at soup kitchens when his parents learn he’s gay. He diva fierceness, Pose is, at its heart, a since high school. A daughter of Korean immigrants, Chung—who has served on the makes his way to NYC, where sweet family drama. The number of org’s entertainment council since February Blanca (Mj Rodriguez), Elektra’s transgender actors in the cast may 2017—knows it can be hard for parents to protégée-turned-rival, takes him in. have made TV history, but it’s the keep food on the table. “My mom supported humanity of the stories they tell us by working two jobs—one at a mall res- Blanca introduces Damon to an taurant,” she says. “When things were really underground LGBTQ community, that’s truly revolutionary. B+ bad, she’d take leftovers home to feed us.” CHUNG: IMAGES GETTY FOR FEEDING AMERICA;

WHY IT’S IMPORTANT All hail Nearly 42 million people in America face Indya hunger daily. “I didn’t realize the scale that it Moore was operating on,” Chung, 35, says of Feed- ing America, which has more than 200 food banks and serves all 50 states. “It’s about not letting food go to waste and feeding families that are in dire need of their next meal.” POSE HOW YOU CAN HELP : JOJO WHILDEN/FX : JOJO

Donate, volunteer, or just spread awareness. “Tell your co-workers and your friends,” says Chung. “The more, the merrier.” —Maureen Lee Lenker

80 EW.COM SUMMER PREVIEW 2018 THE AMERICANS AFinal Salute After becoming a family both on and of screen, Keri Russell, 42, and Matthew Rhys,43,say dasvidaniya to the ’80s spy drama (ending May 30 at 10 p.m. on FX). BY SHIRLEY LI

What’s your most vivid memory from early days on set? KERI RUSSELL I remember trying to feel out what this was going to be. It was one of those pilots that I read and I had no idea where it would land. I certainly had no idea it would be such a great character for me, person- ally and creatively. MATTHEW RHYS I remember the [director of photography] doing this shot of me pulling a wig on and of, and then going, “Okay, now we gotta she looked like John Denver— go get another wig on you.” that always made me laugh. And I went, “This is crazy,we will never be able to keep this Did either of you take any pace.” But we did, for six years. mementos from set? RUSSELL I just saw something What will you miss the most that Matthew took! The ax from those six years? from the brutal ax scene [this RUSSELL Getting to act with season]. He has a mild obses- Matthew. It’s like playing Russell and Rhys enjoy every last bite of their time on The Americans sion with chopping wood sports. You’re only as good as and tough-guy stuf, and Sam, your opponent, and he just ele- our waddling toddler, was vated everything. I looked for- comfort zone, but I grew to RUSSELL I loved the tooth- carrying the ax. So I went, ward to big, vicious fight scenes. really enjoy it because there’s pulling! [Director] Tommy “Ah! Put that down!” And Matt’s RHYS It’s true. Those scenes a sort of freedom in it. Schlamme was like, “This is like, “No, no, it’s a fake from were charged, because there a sex scene.” It was all about set.” I’m like, “Oh, well, how was always an enormous Were scenes like season 3’s trusting this person to do would I know that?” [Laughs] amount of buildup. I loved suitcase-stufing and tooth- the most painful thing to RHYS It’s made out of rubber, those big, explosive moments. pulling as tough to film as you, and it was so cool. and I just thought it would be they were to watch? a lot of fun to have. On the flip side, what scenes RHYS Oh, no, not at all. They I have to ask about the did you dread filming? were always the most fun, the disguises. Which were your And finally, how would you, RHYS Night shoots in the winter. most comedic to shoot. It’s favorites for each other? to avoid spoilers, describe Igrewwaryofthewords kind of ludicrous when you find RUSSELL I tend to like ones the series finale in one word? : PATRICK HARBRON/FX “Exterior, Night” at the top yourself on the floor trying to where he has a mustache. RHYS Satiated. of the page. bend a rubber dummy into a All his mountain-man ones, RUSSELL Hmm. [Pauses] It just RUSSELL At first, a lot of the sex- suitcase. [Laughs] The hardest I think, are hot.[Laughs] feels right. I loved it. I hope you

THE AMERICANS THE uality was not necessarily in my part was not laughing. RHYS I enjoyed the one where guys like it!

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Andre Braugher and Cheddar

Cheddar CHEDDAR as the big THE DOG cheese Queen Elizabeth’s dogs may be the most famous corgis in the world, but on Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Captain Holt’s four-legged friend is the pick of the litter. BY DANA SCHWARTZ

ALTHOUGH DIFFERENT DOGS he’ll make the mistake over and have played Cheddar over the over again just to get the laugh.” years, the Nine-Nine’s longest- Adds executive producer Dan running pooch is 11-year-old Goor: “In the episode where they try to boost Captain Holt’s

Stewart. We asked trainer Michael FOX; TRACHTENBERG/FOX ROBERT FUMERO: CHEDDAR AFTER HIS WEDDING CAKE BINGE: W. Miliotti to throw us a bone social-media presence by taking and take EW behind the scenes Instagram pictures of Cheddar, of the comedy—which has there’s a scene where Holt moved from Fox to NBC and gives a moving speech. Every time [Andre Braugher] began will return in 2019—and dish on that monologue, [Stewart,] who Stewart’s dog days on set. Stewart as Chedda was just of screen, would let his wedding-cake bin PART-TIME POOCH out a soft, unending howl, which cracked everyone up. Every time.” “Stewart is not really a full-time FIERCE FOODIE movie dog,” explains Miliotti, but can he perform on command. “Stewart’s not big on play, as far “He has a little routine where he as toys and whatnot; he’s all about does a little ‘stick ’em up,’ getting food. You have to hide everything arrested and then shot, and he from him because he will find it plays dead. We’ve used that little and make himself sick on it—it’s gag on several occasions. But happened on occasion.” And art most of his training has been the imitated life in the recent season 5 movie basics, and we remold finale when Cheddar gorged him- [those moves] every job we do.” self on wedding cake. “It wasn’t a real cake. It was basically shaving SOME CHE CLASS CLOWN cream with all phony stuf under- JUST HAD Just because Stewart isn’t a neath, [so he didn’t eat it.]” Though workaholic doesn’t mean he’s Cheddar would probably have pre- MUCH ATTI shy. “When he does get on set, it’s ferred the real thing. THOSE CHE a fine line of keeping him under control and un-clownish, because Additional reporting by Dan Snierson DID NOTRE he feeds of the energy of the —MELISSA JOKING ABO set,” says Miliotti. “If he makes a STEWART IS mistake and there’s a reaction, CHEDDAR O

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Season Premiere Series Finale THE BACHELORETTE Queen Sugar The Americans 10–11PM | OWN 10–11PM | FX Ava DuVernay and Oprah’s The Americans enters stellar family drama returns for its final episode with FBI

a two-night premiere, picking agent Stan Beeman (Noah ERIC LIEBOWITZ/FX, ELIZABETH JENNINGS: JEFFREY NE : CRAIG SJODIN/ABC; PHILIP JENNINGS: up where season 2 left of: Ralph Emmerich) on the verge Everyone will Angel is still shaken by the of getting proof that his be talking about Season Premiere reveal that Blue may not be his neighbors Elizabeth (Keri it tomorrow The Bachelorette son (please say it ain’t so!); Char- Russell) and Philip (Mat- 8–10PM | ABC ley’s battle against the Landry thew Rhys) Jennings are After surviving a brutal Bachelor family heats up, and her mama- Russian spies, setting up breakup (Arie proposed, then bear instincts rule as she tries to a fateful confrontation six changed his mind), it’s Becca protect her emotionally scarred seasons in the making. Kufrin’s turn to find love. son after his run-in with police.

Series Premiere Series Premiere John McCain: Reverie Dallas & Robo For Whom the Bell Tolls 10–11PM | NBC STREAMING | YOUTUBE 8–10PM | HBO Dennis Haysbert John Cena and Kat This documentary provides and Kathryn Morris Dennings voice a unprecedented access into the star alongside Sarah pair of outer-space life of a true American patriot, Shahi as a former truck drivers trying as camerasf foll llow the thVi et tnam hostage negotiatior to make a living. POW annd U.S. senator around Season Premiere who takes a job sav- Three guesses Washington and Beat Shazam ing people stranded which actor plays It’s okay to let his homme 8–9PM | FOX in a virtual-reality the six-foot-tall in Arizoona these build up Host Jamie Foxx’s daughter simulator…on a megarobot. followinng his on your DVR Corinne joins the game show as show that seems

2017 brain- KYM SMITH/GETTY IMAGES; IRA/FX; MCCAIN: DJ. “The first day, I was so ner- stranded in a Black cancer vous.… She was amazing and Mirror episode. diagnossis. I was f---ing up,” he says. As long as he isn’t a horrible boss.

Season Premiere Season Premiere MasterChef Unbreakable 8–10PM | FOX Kimmy Schmidt To whet your appetite, binge STREAMING | NETFLIX season 3 of this culinary Kimmy is hugging, competition, where blind chef high-fiving, and scar-

Christine Ha prevailed. “Against ing the touch-averse BEAT SHAZAM all odds and adversity she nerds at her new job triumphed…with her raw talent, as an HR rep—until

ability, and passion,” says EP there’s a sexual- , Devour MASTERCHEF Robin Ashbrook. For the main harassment com- it all at once course: The show’s season 9 plaint against her! premiere on Wednesday, where Naturally she goes judges Gordon Ramsay, Joe on leave, while trying : FOX (2) Bastianich, and Aarón Sánchez to figure out how to “do battle as they each try to make work fun for all. find the best home cook.” Do share, Kimmy.

84 EW.COM SUMMER PREVIEW 2018 *TIMES ARE EASTERN DAYLIGHT AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE PEOPLETV’S COUCH SURFING ”WOW!IT’SLIKE,ALLTHE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE AND THEN ME…IN A HOODIE.” —MATTHEW RHYS on his Brothers & Sisters costars, during PeopleTV’s Couch Surfing (hosted by Lola Ogunnaike; streaming on peopletv.com and the PeopleTV app), where he also reflects on Titus, The Americans, and more

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: STARZ Live: Game Night Norton Show a man (last name 8–8:30PM | ABC 11PM–MIDNIGHT | Darcy) and a woman To celebrate the BBC AMERICA meet at a dog show, NBA Finals, Jimmy Chris Pratt, Bryce hate each other, WRONG MAN WRONG Kimmel talks Dallas Howard, and but still end up hoops, plays Jef Goldblum take engaged. Enter their Series Premiere NETFLIX; games, and more a seat on the sofa for families full of pride Pose with such A-listers this Jurassic World: and prejudice, and 9–10PM | FX as Sandra Bullock, Fallen Kingdom spe- the path to the altar NYC’s drag-ball scene and money-hungry Ryan Gosling, Sam- cial. We’d make dino- gets bumpy as Jane yuppies clash on this 1987-set series boasting uel L. Jackson, and saur puns, but they’re Austen rolls over in a cast with the most transgender regulars ever Jennifer Lopez. all fossils at this point. her grave. on TV. No need to RSVP to attend this ball.

Flip or Floop MiniseriesM Debut Series Premiere Series Premiere 9–9:30PM | HGTV C.B.C Strike Renovation Succession As if tenssions 100–11PM | CINEMAX Realities: 10–11PM | HBO weren’t already Tom Burke stars Dale Jr. & Amy Logan Roy (Brian Cox) and family control a sometimees through as the titular PI in 9–9:30PM | DIY global media and entertainment company. the roof (pun fully thhe adaptation of Race-car driver When he starts to step away, thus begins the intended) on this J.K. Rowling’s most Dale Earnhardt Jr. realdrama. S o, noti nspi redb y true even tts? ? real estate/home- popular series of has parked for now renovatioon show, novels that aren’t in the world of Tarek anddChristina about a magical boy DIY, as he and his : PETER KRAMER/HBO; STERN: JEFF KRAVITZ/ FILMMAGIC; LETTERMAN: haveawhhole new becoming a wizard. interior-designer set of chaallenges wife make over a to navigate—their 150-year-old Key

SUCCESSION divorce. West, Fla., home. Here’s hoping they don’t drive each other crazy.

Season Finale Wrong Man My Next Guest…With David Letterman : STEFFAN HILL/CINEMAX; 9–10PM | STARZ STREAMING | NETFLIX If you’re looking for some social In the first season of his intriguing new justice, you’ve got the right man

C.B. STRIKE C.B. interview series, My Next Guest Needs No in Joe Berlinger. His latest doc Introduction With David Letterman, the TV reinvestigates three inmates icon has welcomed Barack Obama, George who still claim innocence after Clooney, Malala Yousafzai, Jay-Z, and Tina decades of incarceration, by Fey. For the finale, he sits down with Howardd uncovering new theories and Stern (the shock jock appeared on Letter-

: ERIC LIEBOWITZ/FX; ERIC : evidence and pointing at alter- man’s late-night network shows some three nate suspects. Inquiring minds POSE dozen times), who candidly reflects on his may also want to binge other childhood and various controversies. Prior to Berlinger works, including the its premiere, Letterman boasted of feeling Paradise Lost trilogy about the “excited and lucky” to have this Netflix show, trials of the West Memphis Three. but audiences should feel lucky the TV leg- end wasn’t quite ready to fully retire.

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Series Premiere Season Premiere BABY-MAMA DRAMA Dietland Younger 9–11PM | AMC 10–10:30PM | TV LAND The Handmaid’s Don’t be fooled by its title: Liza is back in NYC— Tale Dietland is not a flufy rom-com, having Irish-exited STREAMING | HULU but a sly, dark, and subversive her ex’s wedding— Serena has

series taking aim at society’s and ready to deal trouble car- DIETLAND Everyone will obsession with beauty. Heroine with her romantic ing for a sick Plum Kettle (Joy Nash) finds feelings for her baby (no sur- be talking about HARBRON/AMC; PATRICK : it tomorrow herself drawn into an under- boss, plus that small prise), while ground feminist regime and matter of his promi- Janine finally gets a guerrilla group that commits nent ex-wife and her some face time with violent acts of justice. Watch tell-all book. Jeez, the woman (her for- for Julianna Margulies’ epically nearing 30 in your mer master’s wife) arch and seductive Kitty. 40s is exhausting. who stole her child. THE HANDMAID’S TALETHE HANDMAID’S

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The Fosters 8–9PM | FREEFORM After a tear-jerking, time-jumping March season finale, the Adams-Foster family says : GREENBERG/HULU; JILL goodbye in a special three-part conclusion that advances a whole year. “We saw it as a great opportunity to interact with our family It’s okay to let in this new timeline, to experience these amazing people as they move into adult-

these build up hood,” says EP Peter Paige. The finale takes THE FOSTERS on your DVR the clan to the Turks and Caicos for Brandon’s destination wedding (will it go as planned?),

doubling as a last hurrah in the Caribbean for WILLIAMS/FREEFORM; ROMELLO : cast and crew. Paige says it’s also “a wonderful going-away present” for fans.

Season Premiere Archer Humans 10–10:30PM | FXX 10–11PM | AMC Catch up on Before Gemma Chan heads to the big screen season 9, which in Crazy Rich Asians and Captain Marvel, has reimagined there’s time to catch up with her on Humans, Archer as an alco- HUMANS where she stars as Mia, an artificially intelli- holic seaplane gent robotic synth. Chan points to season 1’s pilot navigating HUTTON/KUDOS/CH4/AMC COLIN : sixth episode as a series highlight, which a lush, mysterious, Devour featured Mia being reunited with her synth and—yes—danger- family in “a really emotional scene to film.” ous island in the it all at once After you binge the first two seasons, Chan South Pacific, says to expect “quite a lot of shocks and before this new surprises—and casualties!” in the season 3 episode where premiere, where we find a “frustrated” Mia. he contends with

“This is the start of her journey that takes her some menacing to some unexpected places,” she reveals. party crashers.

86 EW.COM SUMMER PREVIEW 2018 SEX AND THE ANNIVERSARY “I’MSORRY.ICAN’T.DON’T HATE ME.” —SEX AND THE CITY began airing on HBO 20 years ago, and E! is celebrating the anniversary with a binge-athon, starting June 8, of every episode, including the one where Carrie gets dumped by this Post-it Note

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Season Premiere #HEARTEYESEMOJI Series Premiere Tony Awards The Four: Battle Big Hero 6 8–11PM | CBS for Stardom Alex Strangelove The Series Watch as the starry Angels in America and 8–10PM | FOX STREAMING | NETFLIX 9–10AM | DISNEY CHANNEL magical Harry Potter vie for Tony gold. Will The biggest show Overachieving high Hiro and his crime- fetch happen and Mean Girls clean up? Or on TV (per DJ school senior Alex fighting friends in will votersppypg prefer a porous yellow sponge?e? Khaled) is back with begins questioning San Fransokyo are Josh Groban andSara Bareilles host. new contestants, his sexuality when back, this time on returning host the cute guy from TV. We need an Fergie, and judges across town starts emotional-support Khaled, Meghan crushing on him. Baymaxx Trainor, and Diddy, Alt title for this flick? just to

: DISNEY CHANNEL DISNEY : who jokes that the How I Stopped Wor- watch competition series rying and Learned to the is “also a sitcom.” Love the Boy. movie. BIG HERO 6

Series Debut Erik Grifin: Gotti: Season Premiere Flay challenge the American Woman Amerikan Warrior Godfather & Son Claws competitive cooking 10–10:30PM | PARAMMOUNT NETWORK 10–11PM | SHOWTIME 9PM–MIDNIGHT | A&E 9–10PM | TNT contestants to make Alicia Silverstone is shining new light on “Blackk Panther This documentary Five Florida manicur- portable versions gender inequalitty in 1970s L.A. as newly has tuurned into the is bound to be the ists have turned of their signature single mother Boonnie, new ‘I can say that; best movie ever money laundering dishes at Universal

: SEGOLENE LAGNY/NETFLIX; who finds freedoom I have black friends.’ ” made about a son into a bona fide mafi- Orlando…for park against the backk- The WorkaholicsW oso afair. Good luck guests to eat while (not played by Al

SENSE8 drop of women’ss star goes in on working your guns they ride? Pacino) weighing lib. “Though she’s topicss like religion, with those inch-long a trophy wife, protessting, and the decision to acrylics, ladies. Season Premiere she’s smart and every white person become the new $100,000 Pyramid feisty. But once onTwitter’sw favorite Mafia “godfather,” Season Premiere 9–10PM | ABC she’s crossed, moviee in his new if you will, in the Food Network Star Money. High- be careful…she’ss stand-up special. wake of the death of 9–10PM | FOOD NETWORK pressure. Celebs… complex,” Silver- his Mob-boss father Hosts Giada De Reasons we love stone warns. (not Marlon Brando). Laurentiis and Bobby this game show!

Series Finale Season Finale Sense8 Billions STREAMING | NETFLIX 9–10PM | SHOWTIME Still agonizing about Wolfgang? In its first two seasons, Billions’ law-breaking This brainteasing sci-fi epic’s Manhattan powerhouses—finance mogul wrap-up movie should help. And Bobby Axelrod (Damian Lewis) and U.S. if you’re still a noniniti-sensate, attorney Chuck Rhoades (Paul Giamatti)— there’s time to binge all of the played an engrossing cat-and-mouse game. : PARAMOUNT NETWORK; GROBAN AND BAREILLES: CLIFF LIPSON/CBS; Wachowskis’ series, about eight Their rivalry intensified their desire to win globally far-flung strangers who but threatened to destroy their careers and become inexplicably inter- relationships with the women who helped twined as they develop intense them get there. Moving into the season 3

AMERICAN WOMAN AMERICAN emotional and mental connec- finale, the two have resolved their power tions. EP Grant Hill promises a struggle, burying the hatchet (at least for “wonderful and joyous” finale, now) and rebuilding their empires. But now “even more spectacular than the a shady Russian oligarch (John Malkovich) sum of both previous seasons.” from Axe’s past could derail his plans.

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Chvrches on the streets of New York CHVRCHES

“The Girl at the White Horse!” says bandmate Martin Doherty, finishing her sentence (in case anyone was wondering COMINGTOAMERICA if they really are BFFs). “I had a couple drinks and I was washing Chvrches, Scotland’s favorite musical export, are back with a new album, my hands and realized, ‘I have it,’” she con- a worldwide tour, and a permanent New York City zip code. BY SEIJA RANKIN tinues. “I wrote lyrics down, and the next day I checked it and was like, ‘Oh, thank

CHVRCHES LEAD SINGER LAUREN MAYBERRY God. It’s actually okay.’ I never think I’m CHVRCHES: DANNY CLINCH always keeps a notebook on hand for when- more of a genius than when I’m half-cut.” ever inspiration strikes—which it often The fact that some of the tracks off does, at the most inopportune times. the band’s new album, Love Is Dead (out “I was washing my hands in the [restroom] May 25), were born from a night at the of—what’s that bar called...” says Mayberry. most American of watering holes (think

88 EW.COM SUMMER PREVIEW 2018 NOTEWORTHY Painted Roads Rockers Grizzly Bear announced a new set of fall tour dates in support of their latest album, Painted Ruins. Demi on the Beach Singer Demi Lovato will follow up a string of European tour dates with a June performance on the beach in Atlantic City.

millennial pink, $10 beers, every inch deco- enough heavy guitar sections to make, as rated specifically for an Instagram feed) feels Cook puts it, “a full, balls-out rock record.” Father John fated now. The trio—Mayberry, Doherty, and (There’s always next time?) Iain Cook—recently succumbed to the They did make a few changes, though, at Misty inevitable and made the U.S. their least in the initial writing process. On past TITLE God’s Favorite Customer (semi-)permanent home, landing in New albums, the band has sketched out the LABEL Sub Pop | GENRE Rock York after years of traveling to and from their instrumentals for the tracks before anything beloved hometown of Glasgow, Scotland. else—their songs are, after all, danceable REVIEW BY Leah Greenblatt @Leahbats The move stemmed partly from geographic first and foremost—but this time they took necessity, partly due to their expansion into the opposite approach, as Mayberry came to the upper reaches of pop culture. the recording studio equipped with lyrics. LIKE ONE OF THOSE “It’s a pretty rich experience, creatively, Following the release of Love Is Dead, optical-illusion drawings living in New York City,” says Doherty. “I Chvrches will embark on an expansive from a novelty shop— It’s an old crone! No, it’s a pretty think we’re investing in it. I came out to world tour. They’ll be playing a handful of lady with a feather in her hat!— record with Lauren and Iain, and I never major festivals—the Governors Ball in New Father John Misty’s true essence went back to Glasgow. It’s easy to fall in York, Austin City Limits in Texas, Fuji Rock has always been a bit of a mystery. love with that place.” in Japan (the latter is a bucket-list item for Is he an earnest troubadour plumb- ing the depths of folk sincerity? Easy to fall in love and easy to fall out of the band)—and hitting smaller venues as Or a sly Andy Kaufman art joke, a real life, as they’ve also noticed. “It feels well. It’s another opportunity to deepen the Dada trickster in a fitted blazer? like a holiday—in a bad way,” adds Cook, relationships they’ve developed with their Only the man born Josh Till- laughing. “You walk out the door and $100 fan base over the years. man knows for sure, and he’s too clever or cryptic to tell. But four evaporates from your pocket. You go back “This was never about one day deciding albums in, the FJM musical for- inside the house like, ‘Oh, f---.’ ” that we want to be a Top 40 band,” says mula has been polished to a hirsute For their new record, the follow-up to Doherty. “Or rejecting what we’ve spent sheen: the debonair but world- weary raconteur, swinging between 2015’s glowing Every Open Eye, they trans- all this time creating. No matter how poppy naked self-examination and ser- formed their Stateside experiences into a we are perceived, we’ll always feel like rated takes on millennial narcissism high-energy, pop-meets-punk exercise that an indie band.” and scenester ennui. God’s Favorite muses on past romances, Mayberry turning Customer sounds as lush as anything he’s done—a rich tapestry 30, and the world’s…let’s just say upheaval. of AM-radio jangle and strum But the group was careful not to go too far threaded with songbook ballads like off the beaten path. the rueful opener “Hangout at the “We don’t really subscribe to this idea Gallows” and pretty, plaintive “Just Dumb Enough to Try.” that you have to totally reinvent yourself on “Mr. Tillman” unfurls likes a every record,” says Doherty. “We’ve spent fever dream, “Hotel California” six years trying to build up a following and via Sunset Boulevard; “Date Night” a sound for our band.” is a surrealist boogie stacked with inside jokes about men’s He adds that they were looking to create fashion and internet fame. “I’ll take a more live-sounding record than they’d it easy with the morbid stuff,” made before. That meant using additional he promises (falsely) on “Please instruments, embracing more rough edges, Don’t Die.” If he wasn’t being morbid, wordy, and more than a and, most important, knowing what should little absurd, it probably wouldn’t

MISTY; PARI DUKOVIC PARI MISTY; end up on the cutting-room floor—like feel like Misty at all. A–

SUMMER PREVIEW 2018 EW.COM 89 Country’s “A breathtaking, mind-bending Merry tour de force.”* Pranksters However you classify what they do—American roots music, alt-country, Americana—Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, and Dwight Yoakam are three of the most respected musicians in any genre, making a mark on generations of singer- songwriters. They are teaming up to hit the road this summer for the fittingly titled LSD tour (a hallucinogenic hat tip to their first names). The trio of Grammy winners spoke with EW about shared histories, favorite songs, and what fans who drop in on this run of shows can expect. BY KATHERINE TURMAN

WheredidtheideafortheLSD What are some of your favorites tour begin? of one another’s tunes? YOAKAM It sprang forth from YOAKAM Lucinda’s “Changed Steve and I bumping into each the Locks” is one of my favorite other in 2016. We were at a birth- songs. It’s brilliant. day bash and hadn’t seen each WILLIAMS Awww, I didn’t know other for a few years. We were that. I love Steve’s song I all talking, and I said, “Why sang on, “You’re Still Standing don’t we do something together?” There,” and I love the song EARLE [Dwight] had the sugges- about the guy on death row, tion of me and him, but the next “Ellis Unit One”—it’s like a thing I heard, it was me and him troubadour ballad, and it was “Arnold has a talent for and Lu. Lu and I, we do the Out- in that movie with Susan law Country cruises together. Sarandon, Dead Man Walking. stringing together words in We were headed toward some- That’s a brilliant song. just the right, jumbled order. thing like this, so the two things kinda collided. His sentences are arrows.” WILLIAMS I think [being outliers] is what connects me and Steve. —The New York Times Book Review EARLE Lu lived in Nashville about the time I got out of jail [in 1994]. The first time we saw each other, “Guaranteed to mesmerize.” Emmylou [Harris] was making —Booklist, starred review Wrecking Ball, and [producer Daniel] Lanois came up with the idea of everybody playing on the songs they wrote. I spent “Memorable.” my 40th birthday playing on —People Wrecking Ball; I played on Lu’s song [“Sweet Old World”], too. After that, we saw each other around town. “Illuminating.” YOAKAM The three of us have —The Washington Post reputations that precede us, individually and collectively. WelandedonLSDasafun moniker for the tour, because you don’t gotta take nothing. Just come see us and you’ll be hallucinating. Kelly Loy Gilbert, author of Picture Us in the* Light and Morris Award ﬁnalist Conviction Music

The audience is going to want to see you all on stage together for this tour. Will that happen? YOAKAM I got a suspicion we’re gonna end up doing something, some mischief that we’ll make together. I’ve got an idea, but…

You can’t tell me? N: MICHAEL LAVINE MICHAEL N: YOAKAM Nah, I can tell you. We’ll probably scrap it after the first night. We’ll do it and the three of us will go, “Umm, you wanna do that again?” “No. I’m bored with it now.” I was thinking about the three of us doing Lowell George and Little Feat’s “Willin’.” That kind of suits the moment. But if not that, there’s plenty of other stuf. WILLIAMS I know a Merle [Haggard] song, I know a Buck Owens song! EARLE Lu’s band and mine are SNAIL MAIL getting to be buddies and know Rising indie rocker and recent high school grad Lindsey Jordan (a.k.a. each other, because we’ve done Snail Mail) has been playing clubs since she was 15. Now 18, she’s set to the cruises together. We used drop her superb debut, Lush, on June 8. She chats with essayist (and both bands for a Tom Petty trib- fellow teen) Anna Koppelman about music, love, and self-confidence. ute…my band for half, Lu’s band Yoakam, for half. This’ll be really easy Williams, I feel like part of the tragedy and people who are huge fans. At and Earle YOAKAM, WILLIAMS: ERIKA GOLDRING/FILMMAGIC (2); EARLE: RICK KERN/WIREIMAGE; JORDA KERN/WIREIMAGE; RICK EARLE: (2); GOLDRING/FILMMAGIC ERIKA WILLIAMS: YOAKAM, and really entertaining, I promise. beauty of being a teen is you are [SXSW], we went to see one of the bound to go through times of seri- bands who are really big just for ous doubt as well as joy that get fun to check out what’s going on. erased as you grow older. In your It’s so cool to see people dress up. songs, you make those moments Fangirl culture is sick. Everyone permanent. How do you deal with thinks it’s super hot to be unfazed, knowing you’ll always have these and it’s so lame. artifacts of how you felt? I like to be able to look back and It takes a lot of security to show see clearly at a time and know how that you care. How did you I felt and reflect on it and revisit develop the confidence you have? it and feel it again. I’m glad I have I’ve always been a really self- such a clear documentation of assured person—bold as a kid, who I was. It almost guarantees played hockey on the boys’ team. that I am growing as a writer and I felt like I always had to make as a person. room for myself and be confident or else you would be trampled Has anyone come to a show on. Music is the same thing: You and realized you’d written a song need to have a strong sense of self about them? and know why you are doing it. I remember this one song, we played it for the first time and every- You’ve graduated high school, one in the band was like, “Oh, no, you are touring around the coun- oh my God, oh my God, it’s so obvi- try playing music, and soon ous that they know.” I was like: you won’t be a teenager. Are you “Whatever, they know that it hap- excited, or terrified to let go of pened.” I was just laughing. It was all the teen angst? hilarious. That’s what the song is, I feel like I am a bubbly person. it’s about you; know thyself. If she I am usually psyched. I love being didn’t realize, I’d be concerned for on tour, I love playing music. But her self-awareness. when I feel it, I like to be the angsti- est bitch ever. It’s traveling with In a culture that kind of rewards me into my young adulthood. I am the aesthetic of apathy, do you so ready to be done being a teen- ever feel a conflict between car- ager. I’m not clinging on to it ing and being cool? for dear life. I am in a good place I love going to shows and seeing right now. I’m chilling.

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their beach-tote ubiquity, though it’s Season that comes closest to the platonic ideal of what these kinds of books should be: a let’s-get-lost tale of romance, high art, and class intrigue set against the backdrop of New York’s bucolic North Fork. Only a narrow bay away from the Hamptons but an ocean apart from its oligarch mansions and bony socialites, the land’s- end hamlet of Orient is an idyllic village of saltbox bungalows, rutted bike lanes, and overflow- ing farm stands; the kind of place where “there were no famous faces,” Blundell writes, “only famous résumés.” That means chefs, architects, and women like Ruthie Beamish, the director of a small but beloved local museum. Ruthie also has a picturesque house on the water that she’s painstakingly restored, a 15-year-old daughter named Jem, and an amicable relationship with Mike, the ex she hasn’t quite gotten around to divorcing yet. Afording the IT’S EASY TO SLAP A SANDY home they love, though, means vista or a Bermuda-pink font renting it out for the prime sum- on a book jacket and call it a mer months—a transaction that hot summer read. But the truly turns personal with the arrival of THEBEACH good ones—stories with real their new subletter, Adeline Clay, characters, smart pacing, and the wealthy widow of a revered plots that don’t collapse like a painter Ruthie once worked for. five-dollar deck chair—can be Blundell (who has spent most much harder to find; a madden- of her career in YA, often under BOOKISBACK ing, SPF-smeared quest that the pseudonym Jude Watson) sometimes lasts until September. casts her net wide: Season teems Every time the mercury rises, the quest This year’s Memorial Day with angst-riddled teenagers and for fresh fiction begins. Here’s a look sweepstakes have already twentysomething grifters, town- at two hyped novels—The High Season yielded two early front-runners, ies and trophy wives and eccen- and The Favorite Sister—vying for Jessica Knoll’s The Favorite Sister tric billionaires. But she weaves summer supremacy. BY LEAH GREENBLATT and Judy Blundell’s The High them all together seamlessly, Season. Both will probably earn landing somewhere in the smart,

OPENING LINE > THE HIGH SEASON Every summer Ruthie gave away her house by the sea.

92 EW.COM SUMMER PREVIEW 2018 ILLUSTRATION BY NICK ILUZADA BETWEEN Puppy Love Stephen King published “Laurie,” a new THE short story dedicated to his beloved family dog Vixen. LINES Más Maas YA best-seller Sarah J. Maas announced that she’s landed a deal for her first adult fantasy series.

breezy sweet spot between Meg Wolitzer and Elin Hilderbrand. The Favorite Sister is partly set across the water in Montauk, but breezy is not really its lane. Calypso A whodunit that begins with the body already buried, Sister The Insider BY David Sedaris follows a group of young female entrepreneurs (turning 35 in In her new book, Parks and Recreation PAGES 259 | GENRE Essays their world isn’t actually fatal, alum Retta celebrates finally “making it” REVIEW BY David Canfield but it might as well be) who in Hollywood. BY DAVID CANFIELD @davidcanfield97 costar together on a basic-cable

reality show called Goal Diggers. TWO THINGS DAVID Stephanie writes best-selling In your memoir, from being a comic novels and memoirs; Lauren So Close to Being who was appearing Sedaris is talking about launched an innovative dating the S---, Y’all Don’t on this show to being more than usual: Don- app; Jen is a lifestyle expert Even Know,yousay someone on this ald Trump and death. In his you could’ve audi- show—being a known cornering the market in sea kelp new essay collection, Calypso, and self-help; Brett and Kelly are tioned for Efie White entity in the business. in the film Dreamgirls Writing that chapter the siblings behind Spoke, a he’s rejiggered his tone—right but were too nervous just gave me perspec- socially conscious indoor-cycling along with much of the coun- to show up. tive on how things chain. By the fourth-season It’s not a story that can change your life try—to meet a newly somber finale, Brett is dead, and if her I’d ever told, but it’s so easily. national mood. Or maybe it’s castmates know why, they have something I always just the shadow of late middle good reasons not to tell. thought about. You’re having a big Knoll’s 2015 blockbuster, When I was relating year, between this age: the pervasion of funerals Luckiest Girl Alive, earned inevita- this story for the book, book and the TV and illnesses and retirements in ble comparisons to Gone Girl, I was like, “This was show Good Girls. one man’s orbit. It’s hard to tell though American Psycho seems really a turning point The other day, I was like a better fit here. Her take on in my career and just thinking, “I’m in from where the motivation the collision of celebrity and how I approach work.” this business.” When stems. And indeed, therein lies fourth-wave feminism—with its To write it out in that you go to all of these Sedaris’ genius—he reﬂects the hunger games and anxiety and self- chapter, it was like, events and you “Yeah, just say yes meet these stars in culture inwardly, capturing conscious branding—is wickedly to stuf. You’re here the industry and they sharp, but it’s coldhearted, too. with journalistic and emotional to do a job, and quietly say, “I love the Knoll would probably just say precision his public indignities, don’t be so scared work you’re doing,” clear-eyed, and she may be right, about things.” it makes you go, milked for their tragicomic though that feels like a hollow “Oh s---, I am a part of worth. Yet while Sedaris’ signa- victory: Beneath their buttery How did it feel revisit- this.” I’m appreciative ture wit remains, it’s now highlights and Instagram smiles, ing Parks and Rec? that I did go through her women are all cold metal and Nostalgic. Those were that hustle to get to buttressing a sadness; his piece calculation; Real Housewives the glory days. I went where I am now. on his sister Tiffany’s suicide dipped in Nietzsche. Still, they’re gets right at the heart. The good, nasty fun to speend time Any message you with for a while—evenn though hope readers gain? humorist also takes on the elec- they would probably never deign To face your fears. tion, succumbing to a new sort to appear in a review like this if It’s such a simple and of essayist cliché, but he does obvious phrase. But they knew they’d havve to share clichés area clichés for so in a fashion that’s true to the space with anothher woman, a reason.n Calypso’s spirit: connecting to and come in second pplace. The High Season A– what’s lost, and healing what’s Retta, who currently B+ RETTA: MAARTEN DE BOER/NBCU PHOTO BANK/GETTY IMAGES The Favorite Sister B stars on NBC’s Good Girls broken before it’s too late.

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BY Michael Ondaatje

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REVIEW BY Leah Greenblatt @Leahbats

BETWEEN HIS NOVELS AND VOLUMES of poetry, Michael Ondaatje— the Sri Lankan-born author of ZORA’SLOSTBOOK dreamy, elliptical best-sellers like Anil’s Ghost and Booker Prize winner The English Zora Neale Hurston’s stunning profile of a slave-trade Patient—has always seemed like a sort survivor went unpublished for nearly a century. The inside story of how Barracoon finally saw the light of of literary mystic, a wizard of mood and day, 58 years after Hurston’s death. BY DAVID CANFIELD atmosphere. If you handed him a protrac- tor, he would probably draw you a cloud. ZORA NEALE HURSTON’S classic Their Eyes Were hadn’t been made public. So it feels almost jarring when his latest Barracoon is a heartbreak- Watching God—it marks Barracoon, still unpub- lays down its narrative gauntlet with a ing book from a renowned an unearthed treasure. lished, was in the archives surprisingly earthbound ﬁrst line: “In 1945 20th-century author. Tell- In 1931, the year Hur- of Howard University. ing the story of a man who ston interviewed Lewis, She sent it to Hurston’s our parents went away and left us in the care is thought to have been Viking Press rejected the publisher, Harper Peren- of two men who may have been criminals.” the last-known survivor Barracoon manuscript, nial, where Tracy Sherrod, Soon, though, ambiguities creep in; 14-year- of the Atlantic slave trade, citing Hurston’s preserva- editorial director of the imprint Amistad, acquired old Nathaniel and his older sister, Rachel, and featuring a new fore- tion of Lewis’ distinct dia- word by Pulitzer Prize win- lect. Viking wanted it. “I cried,” Sherrod quickly learn that their mother has not, in ner Alice Walker (The conventionally “respect- remembers of reading fact, followed their father to Singapore for Color Purple), its cultural able” language instead. Barracoon for the first his new job, though they have no clue where importance is palpable. But Hurston didn’t con- time. She chokes up: sider removing Lewis’ own “I could just really feel his she’s gone instead. And the family friend So why did it take 87 years to get published? words. “When we read his loneliness and his longing assigned to look after them, a quiet man they Barracoon introduces stories and his proverbs for home, having all of that call The Moth, turns their home into a noc- readers to Cudjo Lewis, and his jokes, this is part of taken away from him.” celebrating the life he was Barracoon is a chal- turnal clubhouse ﬁlled with vivid, shadowy who was abducted from Africa on the last-ever able to fashion in himself,” lenging read—a reminder characters: opera singers, haberdashers, “Black Cargo” ship to explains Deborah G. Plant, of the ugliness of American petty criminals, even a “verbose beekeeper.” arrive in the U.S. It’s struc- a Hurston scholar at the history and the souls who University of South Florida, sufered. Yet with Lewis’ Woven into Warlight’s pages are the frag- tured informally, as if writer and subject are in who edited the book. “Zora testimony, we don’t get ments of several fascinating half-stories: conversation, and much knew that. She insisted on another textbook version teenage romance, international espionage, of the book consists of presenting Cudjo’s story, of this national scar. We’re greyhound smuggling, surrogate fatherhood, him relaying to Hurston his community, his history, let into the humanity of feelings of profound lone- in as authentic a manner it. “He allows us to touch sibling rivalry. Ondaatje approaches most of liness, loss, and trauma. as possible.” what people felt,” Plant them at a kind of lyrical but inscrutable His story of survival is a Two years ago, the says. “He brings to light a remove—less a linear record of what was said devastating but essential literary agent Joy Harris historical account—lets us read. For Hurston—who began representing Hur- know this history had this and done than a mournful, impressionistic died in 1960 and is best ston’s trust and searched heartbeat, and he shares memory of all the things that never were. B known for the American for work of hers that that pulse with us.”

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FURYBORN BY CLAIRE LEGRAND YOUNG ADULT EA FRANCHESCA RAMSEY’S MEMOIR-MEETS- One of the year’s most anticipated new YA fantasies, activism handbook, Well, That Escalated Furyborn centers on two fierce, sharp women who exist centuries apart, yet find themselves with the joint Quickly, boasts blurbs from Ilana Glazer, power to save the world from evil outside forces. Issa Rae, and Jake Tapper. The way Ramsey I FELT A FUNERAL, IN MY BRAIN secured the latter recommendation speaks BY WILL WALTON MIDDLE GRADE E volumes about the internet background of Walton’s devastating new book offers a visually striking, emotionally accessible portrait of grief. A boy grapplinng the author, whose breakout YouTube video, with unimaginable loss turns to his own mind for healinng. “S--- White Girls Say...to Black Girls,” has more than 12 million views. “I met Jake Tapper at an event, and he followed me on TRUE STORIES Twitter,” she says. “I was like, I’m just

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THE GLITCH BY ELISABETH COHEN NOVEL ECA U PHOTO BANK/GETTY IMAGES; WILLIAMS: HARRY LANGDON/GETTY IMAGES Fast, funny, and smart, The Glitch introduces a high- powered Silicon Valley CEO who’s thrown for a loop when a woman claiming to be her younger self randomly appears.

SOME TRICK BY HELEN DEWITT SHORT STORIES E DeWitt is among our most intriguing fiction writers right now, and with this new collection—a despairingly funny portrait of urban America—she proves exactly why.

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