Artists
KATE WINSLET • CHLOÉ ZHAO
N.K. JEMISIN • MARK BRADFORD
SCARLETT JOHANSSON • STEVEN YEUN
JASON SUDEIKIS • OMAR SY
JESSICA B. HARRIS • DANIEL KALUUYA
BAD BUNNY • BARBARA KRUGER
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS • KANE BROWN
BOWEN YANG • LIL NAS X
KATE WINSLET
MAGNIFICENT ACTOR
BY KENNETH BRANAGH
I FIRST AUDITIONED Kate Winslet when she was 17. I thought she was 25. Such was her self-possession, presence and concentration in the room. When she walked out the door, I turned to the casting director and said with certainty, “We have just met a star.”
Three years later, I cast her as Ophelia in a film of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. I did not ask her to audition. She brought a detective’s energy to rehearsals. She listened with superhuman acuity, and expressed character with effortless depth. She connected with Shakespeare entirely naturally.
In HBO’s Mare of Easttown, those same qualities are radiant, having now evolved into a truly awesome acting technique. Only now, hers is the art that entirely hides the artist. Kate Winslet disappears, and Mare emerges complete, without vanity or artifice. It’s magnificent to watch.
I still see her as 25, but now as a master of her art.
Branagh is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker and an Emmy-winning actor
CHLOÉ ZHAO
Groundbreaking director
BY ANG LEE
Chloé Zhao seized the world’s attention with her 2017 film a sparse and stunning portrait of a struggling Native American family in South Dakota. And she did so again with for which she became the first Asian woman to win an Oscar for Best Director. With a compassionate eye, she deftly weaves together narrative and documentary in a way that captures the spirit of the characters’ inner selves, allowing us to see into their lives and truly understand them. Even her heartbreakingly beautiful
