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MACIEK KOBIELSKI MACIEK AGE: 20 Hawke YOU KNOW HER AS: Jo March in Little Women (PBS, 2018). BREAKTHROUGH ROLE: Robin in Stranger Things, Season Three (Netflix, 2019). ACTRESS ON SUCCESS: “Stranger Things is a guaranteed public profile that I currently don’t have. It’s exciting and tempting and terrifying.” MANTRA: “You’ll only do anything good as an actor, ever, if you’re willing to make mistakes.” Photographs by Photographs

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Lucy HOMETOWN: London, England Boynton AGE: 24 YOU KNOW HER AS: Countess Elena Andrenyi in Murder on the Orient Express (2017). BREAKTHROUGH ROLE: Mary Austin in Bohemian Rhapsody (November 2018). ACTRESS ON CAREER: “As soon as I got a taste for what a film set can be like, there was no going back.” ON LEARNING: “It was really interesting watching him, and how he engages with every element of filming,” she says of co-star Rami Malek. “He doesn’t just play as actor—he knows the lens we’re on, the camera that’s being specifically used. Why this angle, why this shot? Why this setup? That curiosity was very inspiring.”

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Toyin HOMETOWN: Ife, Nigeria Ojih Odutola AGE: 33 BREAKTHROUGH PROJECT: “To Wander Determined,” 2017–18 solo show at New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art. ARTIST CURRENT EXHIBITION: “When Legends Die” (Jack Shainman Gallery, September 2018). EARLY INFLUENCES: Anime, Kara Walker, Jacob Lawrence. ON SUCCESS: “I went from doing my own thing to representing this movement. It’s hard to mitigate it because you’re not quite sure why or how you fit into it. But Jordan Casteel and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and Njideka Akunyili Crosby and all of these amazing women artists are all coming to the fore: I’m glad I’m part of the group. I’m not just part of the singular thing; it’s all of us in the room.”

Bodysuit by Off-White c/o Virgil Abloh; boots by Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello. Photographed at the Pierre hotel, New York City.

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DIRECTOR BREAKTHROUGH PROJECT: Atlanta, two Emmy nominations. ON COLLABORATION: With Glover, “there’s a butterfly-net-in-a-tornado vibe to working together, where we don’t know where it’s going to go, but we trust each other to let chaos happen.” ON STORYTELLING: “I think marginalized groups are becoming more visible, and we’re learning that very specific stories can be mainstream.”

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“I find myself blindly flooring it and seeing what happens.”

Adut HOMETOWN: Adelaide, Australia Akech AGE: 18 BREAKTHROUGH: Walking every major show at this summer’s Paris Couture Week, and closing both Chanel and Valentino. MODEL PROUDEST OF: Collaborating with the United Nations to volunteer at the Kenyan refugee camp where she spent the first six years of her life. MENTOR: Naomi Campbell. “She’s like my mom now in New York. She always tells me, ‘Never lose yourself. Always keep true to yourself. Because in this industry, there’s gonna be a lot of temptations, but you just have to remain who you are.’ ”

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186 VANITY FAIR SEPTEMBER 2018 SEPTEMBER 2018 VANITY FAIR 000153 Olly HOMETOWN: London, England Alexander AGE: 28 BAND: Years & Years

MUSICIAN BREAKTHROUGH PROJECT: Sold-out North American Palo Santo tour (October 2018). ON PROGRESS: “I think it’s exciting to be alive and making art right now. I’m grateful to be doing it. The more we uplift each other and support new voices, “I want to keep the more excellent stuff we’re going to see. It’s about time we had a change.” ON ACTIVISM: “I wrote a song about depression and never expected the reaction to be telling stories of so loud. The mental-health crisis is at the heart of our social fabric. It demonstrated women of how necessary it is to have this conversation.” color that we Clothing by Balenciaga. haven’t heard before.”

Chanté HOMETOWN: Detroit, Michigan Adams AGE: 23 YOU KNOW HER AS: Roxanne Shanté in Netflix’sRoxanne Roxanne (2018). BREAKTHROUGH ROLE: Zoe in Monsters and Men (October 2018). ACTRESS ON SUCCESS: “I just feel so grateful that I am breaking into this industry when all of these strong and powerful women have decided to use their voice and speak up. It’s setting a standard for me.” MENTOR: “I did a movie with Nia Long and she said to me, ‘Use your voice, and if you’re too scared to, I’ll use my voice for you. I’m going to be to you as Whoopi Goldberg was to me on my first movie.’ Oh, casual. I’m just in the lineage of Whoopi and Nia now.”

Dress by Dolce & Gabbana; shoes by Givenchy. Photographed at the Chateau Marmont hotel, Los Angeles.

188 VANITY FAIR SEPTEMBER 2018 SEPTEMBER 2018 VANITY FAIR 189 Ari’el HOMETOWN: Berkeley, California Stachel AGE: 27 YOU KNOW HIM FROM: His emotionally raw 2018 Tonys acceptance speech for

ACTOR best featured actor in a musical. BREAKTHROUGH ROLE: Haled in The Band’s Visit (through October 2018). ON PROGRESS: “I literally had no sense that I could have a career as a Middle Eastern. Like, none. And certainly not in the way that I wanted to exist. I don’t want to bomb things. I want to play people who are romantic, with real issues—three-dimensional.” ENCOURAGEMENT: “I’d gotten a full ride to N.Y.U., so I was there at accepted- students’ day and I went to In the Heights. I was at the stage door and I was really enthusiastic. Chris Jackson, who was in Hamilton, was there, and I was so happy. He came to me and he said, ‘Come here, man,’ and he brought me through onto the stage. And I’m looking at a Broadway house, one that I’d fantasized about—and this was a role model of mine— and he looks up and he says, ‘Hey, man, I know you’re going to get here.’ ”

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Cody HOMETOWN: Southern Cross, Australia Fern AGE: 30 YOU KNOW HIM AS: David Madson in American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace (FX). ACTOR BREAKTHROUGH ROLES: An undisclosed role in the final season ofHouse of Cards (Netflix).

ROLE MODELS: “The divas of the daytime movies: Cher, Bette Davis, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett. I saw these women on my television as very antithetical to the culture I was growing up in.” ON STORYTELLING: “I think people have reached a point of gender-stereotype exhaustion. People are waking up. They no longer want to switch off; they actually want to get to the heart of the problem.”

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