Issa Rae, Zoe Kravitz 2022 ELLE Women In Hollywood Honorees
Issa Rae, Zoe Kravitz And Ariana Debose Among 2022 ELLE Women In Hollywood Honorees
Issa Rae stays winning! The Insecure
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2022 ELLE Women In Hollywood Magazine Covers Unveiled
We’re all for celebrating women every day so, we’re thrilled the time has arrived for ELLE to pay tribute to women in Hollywood with covers, stories, and portfolios! The eight women honored this year include Issa Rae, Ariana DeBose, Zoe Kravitz, Sydney Sweeney, Michelle Yeoh, Anne Hathaway, Sigourney Weaver and Olivia Wilde. Inside the issue, the women featured talk about everything from the five-year anniversary of the #MeToo movement, female film directors and directors of photography, the power of an all-female set and ageism.
Our friends at ELLE were kind enough to share images and excerpts from their November issue (on newsstands November 1!) which we’re sharing here — starting with Issa Rae’s incredible double covers shot by Cass Bird.
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Inside the issue, Issa talks about her challenges, including the learning curve she faced making Rap Sh!t; as well as her triumphs, like having one of her inspirations, Regina King, as a longtime supporter AND director of an episode of Insecure. Check out a few excerpts below:
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On what has changed in Hollywood post-#MeToo:
“Sadly, not much. It feels like we’re regressing, depressingly so. There are just too many enablers for there to be real change. People have to be held accountable. There have to be legitimate consequences. Hollywood is very bad about consequences. It’s literally the worst industry when it comes to punishing people for misdeeds, because money will always reign supreme. That’s something that, even by working in this industry, we’re enabling. So it’s hard. What I have realized is that I can control my own environment and who I work with. I can hold people accountable within my world and my bubble. I don’t have to work for everybody. All money isn’t good money. All people aren’t good people…
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On what more needs to be done:
It starts with a backbone. While I don’t support people jumping to conclusions and I think it’s entirely fair for investigations to happen, I think it’s extremely important to, like the mantra says, ‘Listen to women.’ I’m gonna be real, the stuff that’s happening with Ezra Miller is, to me, a microcosm of Hollywood. There’s this person who’s a repeat offender, who’s been behaving atrociously, and as opposed to shutting them down and shutting the production down, there’s an effort to save the movie and them. That is a clear example of the lengths that Hollywood will go to to save itself and to protect offenders. So, don’t do that, and women may be able to thrive. They won’t have to live in fear of keeping silent because it’ll ruin their careers. It’s just a constant pattern of abuse that’ll only persist if Hollywood continues to insist on being this way.”
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Issa Rae Reveals She’s Working On A Show With Laura Dern
On her only-in-Hollywood moment:
“I was at the Golden Globes sitting at a table with the cast of Big Little Lies. Laura Dern was casually, unbeknownst to me, pitching the president of HBO her next idea. It was him being like, ‘Okay, I love the idea. Who’s gonna write it?,’ then her pointing to me, and then us selling a show together. That, to me, will always be an only-in-Hollywood moment. Now we just have to make the show.”
Hit the flip for more from the issue.
- Case Closed Cardi Found Not Liable In $24 Million Assault And Battery Trial, Trolls Pregnancy Rumors With Open Shirt Celebration
- Heavy On The HouseWIFE: Country Crooner K. Michelle Reveals She’s Married—Is THIS Her Hidden Hubby?
- Life After Lockup: Here’s What Happened When Karen Huger Made Her Grand Exit From Jail
We’d have a really hard time picking a favorite from the 2022 ELLE Women In Hollywood.
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We were ecstatic that Zoe Kravitz also made the cut! The images Sharif Hamza captured of Zoe are out of this world.
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On cowriting Pussy Island with her writing partner E. T. Feigenbaum in 8- to 12-hour shifts and deciding to direct the film:
“The story has changed many times. I started writing it before Harvey Weinstein was exposed, so the world was different. It came from a very different place, and it did start very much like an angry feminist script,” she explains. “Then, as the world changed and the conversation evolved, I got to sit back and watch.” While Kravitz didn’t initially plan to direct the film, it became clear that it wouldn’t work any other way. “I just didn’t know anyone else who I felt comfortable handing it over to,” she says. “When you work on something for so long, you see it in your mind’s eye, and I didn’t know who else would understand it the way that I did. If you dream it into reality, it feels like giving birth in a way.”
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On her use of social media and in general how celebrities use social media:
“I didn’t really sit and think about [using Instagram to call out Hulu for canceling High Fidelity], which is sometimes my problem. I’m a very impulsive person. That’s one of the problems with social media in general. You can just do something without thinking. There’s good things about that, in terms of the fact that that was my honest opinion in that moment and still kind of is, and I said it. But we’re also living in a time where it’s good to be thoughtful about what you say. Social media is a big experiment that we’re all participating in, and to pretend like we understand it is a joke. I have had my ups and downs with it. I’m sure it’s helped my career in some ways, but I also think it’s hurt it. With actors, it’s difficult because I think we give too much information [about ourselves] and it makes it difficult for us to disappear into roles. The actors that I grew up watching, I didn’t know anything about them. That’s part of what made them so interesting… When something happens, people expect celebrities to write about it. What if we’re still processing? What if we don’t have enough information and we don’t know how we feel yet? Maybe we’re at home crying in our bedrooms and talking to our friends.”
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Get into some Ariana DeBose coverage when you continue!
- Case Closed Cardi Found Not Liable In $24 Million Assault And Battery Trial, Trolls Pregnancy Rumors With Open Shirt Celebration
- Heavy On The HouseWIFE: Country Crooner K. Michelle Reveals She’s Married—Is THIS Her Hidden Hubby?
- Life After Lockup: Here’s What Happened When Karen Huger Made Her Grand Exit From Jail
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Ariana DeBose Says It’s Been Insinuated She Got An Oscar Because She Is Queer And Afro-Latina
On defying haters and earning her accolades:
“There have been insinuations that I was given an Oscar because I’m queer and because I am an Afro-Latina. And that’s haterade. That’s just haterade. And I know that. We wouldn’t have had conversations around my identity, or any of the labels associated with my name, if my work had not first been exceptional. And I’ve always said, I don’t believe I should be handed anything. I want to earn my seat at the table. I don’t believe in everybody getting gold stars just because you tried. I want the gold star because I busted my balls to be where I am, and I’ve done the work, and I trained, and I took the private lessons, and I humbled myself. I fell on my face multiple times in the 10 years it took me to get to where I am. Hell, I took a voice lesson yesterday. Yesterday.”
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On an interesting ‘only-in-Hollywood’ moment of hers:
“I was cornered in a bathroom at a Hollywood event and someone told me I took their job from them. And that, to me, was an only-in-Hollywood moment. That never happened to me in high school— no one ever cornered me and said, ‘You took my boyfriend.’ I guess I didn’t have that problem.”
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Check out more covers below and read more on ELLE.com
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Inside the issue, Sydney Sweeney talks about her Emmy nods and her favorite moments from the big night.
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Sigourney Weaver talks about her fascination with how movies are made…
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Anne Hathaway spoke about the power of being on an all-female set.
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Olivia Wilde talks about the Don’t Worry Darling drama and quotes Florence Pugh about not signing up for a reality show.
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Michelle Yeoh opens up about defying expectations and getting emotional on her Everything, Everywhere press tour.
- Case Closed Cardi Found Not Liable In $24 Million Assault And Battery Trial, Trolls Pregnancy Rumors With Open Shirt Celebration
- Heavy On The HouseWIFE: Country Crooner K. Michelle Reveals She’s Married—Is THIS Her Hidden Hubby?
- Life After Lockup: Here’s What Happened When Karen Huger Made Her Grand Exit From Jail
