Charles Melton, Natalie Portman, Colman Domingo, Greta Lee, Pedro Pascal, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Jodie Comer, Jenna Ortega, Lily Gladstone and Barry Keoghan are quite the star-studded group. For this year's Vanity Fair Hollywood Issue, each actor was asked burning questions about working in Hollywood, which actors they get mistaken for and so much more. What genre of film did Jenna always want to try? Does Lily Gladstone remember her first audition? What is Barry Keoghan's favorite line from one of his characters? Natalie Portman’s gown by Rick Owens; sandals by Jimmy Choo; ear clips from Mahnaz Collection; bracelet by Van Cleef & Arpels. Pedro Pascal’s suit by Tom Ford; shirt and tie by Charvet; boots by John Lobb. Colman Domingo’s suit by Alexander McQueen; shirt by Brioni; boots by John Lobb; tie by Ralph Lauren Purple Label. Jodie Comer’s dress by Balenciaga Couture; earrings by Maria Tash. Lily Gladstone’s clothing and shoes by Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello; earrings by Chanel Fine Jewelry. Greta Lee’s clothing and shoes by Gucci; cuff by Chanel Fine Jewelry; ear clips by Belperron. Charles Melton’s suit by Richard James Savile Row; shirt and tie by Charvet; shoes by John Lobb. Da’Vine Joy Randolph’s gown by LaQuan Smith. Jenna Ortega’s gown by Alaïa. Barry Keoghan’s suit by Gucci; shirt by Brioni; tie by Ralph Lauren Purple Label; boots by John Lobb.For details, go to VF.com/credits.
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00:00 I met Marty.
00:01 Yeah, I met Marty the other night.
00:04 I asked him how many more movies he thinks he's gonna make.
00:08 He said, like, "I think I have three more in me."
00:10 -Really? -And then I was like, "Oh, yeah?"
00:12 -Here's my headshot. -Yeah.
00:14 -What do you think? -My name is Greta Lee.
00:18 ♪♪
00:26 Have you ever been mistaken for another actor?
00:28 All the time. All the time.
00:30 Keira Knightley. -Ooh, that's a good one.
00:32 All the time. Very flattering.
00:34 Meryl Streep.
00:35 [ Laughter ]
00:38 I was like, "No."
00:39 -I'm not Meryl. -No, I'm not Meryl Streep.
00:41 Well, Meryl's very transformative.
00:42 She could be you. -Exactly.
00:44 She could be me, but I could never be her.
00:47 I feel like me and Betty Gilpin,
00:49 we always get mixed up with each other a lot.
00:53 I get Matt Damon a lot, and Ben Affleck.
00:58 Uh...
01:01 Someone mistook me for Idris Elba once.
01:03 Oh, that's a very good one.
01:05 I'm not mad at that. I'm not mad at that.
01:06 It's a match. It's a match.
01:08 It's kind of crazy how much I get Matt Damon,
01:11 but that's pretty much it.
01:14 -Oh, wow. -Seriously?
01:17 Pedro, what movie of yours have you watched the most?
01:20 -It's not a movie. -What is it?
01:21 It's an episode of television.
01:23 Which one?
01:24 What have you watched the most?
01:26 You sit back with popcorn in your underwear and watch.
01:28 There's an episode.
01:32 What? You're like, "I'm so good in this."
01:34 There's an episode of "The Mentalist."
01:37 You remember that show? -Yeah, I do. Yeah.
01:38 And I have this scene with Robin Tunning,
01:40 who's a very, very good friend of mine,
01:42 and there's a piano score in the scene that's so good!
01:47 Right now, I'm trying so hard
01:49 not to watch "Past Lives" on the airplane
01:52 'cause I'm on the airplane so much,
01:54 and I see so many people watching it,
01:55 and I really want to watch it, but that's so awkward.
01:58 Oh, my God. Do people ever watch it and then look at you?
02:01 'Cause I have, like, my baseball cap on,
02:02 but I, like, want to see, like, me crying.
02:05 Like, that's so weird, right?
02:07 The horror movie that I did, "X,"
02:09 I have a really big scream in that,
02:11 and people have sent me that video countless times.
02:14 When I used to be on Twitter,
02:15 it was, like, a really big reaction video.
02:18 So I've seen that clip over a million times probably.
02:21 It's so weird. What about you?
02:22 I don't watch myself.
02:25 Do we have to get better at that? I don't know.
02:27 Part of it, I like the mystery of it
02:29 because I'm becoming the character.
02:31 You know what I mean? Yeah.
02:32 I fall into who the character is,
02:34 and a part of me doesn't want to watch myself
02:36 because I like the abandonment.
02:38 I like that departure to become that person.
02:41 I also find that usually the second or third watch
02:45 is the one where I can actually watch the film
02:47 instead of, you know, like we were talking about.
02:49 You kind of pre-edit it in your head
02:50 based upon the choices that you made
02:52 and what you think they're going to use,
02:53 and then it's never what you think it is.
02:55 I've actually watched Zola the most.
02:56 Oh, yeah. Because I almost watch it
02:58 because I'm like, "I can't believe what's actually happening."
03:00 I can't believe what you're doing.
03:02 I've known him for a really, really, really long time,
03:05 and Zola, one and the same.
03:09 What is a line of one of your characters
03:11 that you can't seem to forget?
03:14 You got some pretty big coconuts
03:16 pulling that stunt you pulled last night.
03:19 It was something like that. I'm kidding.
03:21 Something like that?
03:23 Wait, maybe let's do another option.
03:25 Oh, I think from May-December,
03:27 the one that's just what grown-ups do
03:30 is particularly cruel.
03:33 This one I remember. "There Goes That Dream."
03:36 Oh, that's such a great one. It's heartbreaking.
03:38 It's such a good one.
03:40 It's so sad. Oh.
03:41 It's so sad.
03:42 "Being that holdovers was the last gig I did,
03:45 a line in it she says, 'Mary Lamb,'
03:47 that stands out to me.
03:49 You can't even dream a whole dream, can you?'"
03:53 And I just thought that was so profound and yet simple.
03:59 I think sometimes we're afraid to dream.
04:01 What was one of your favorite lines?
04:04 Oh, easy. "Sweet Birthday Baby."
04:07 Which was?
04:09 The line, the line, the line, the line.
04:12 "Sweet Birthday Baby."
04:13 Oh. Yeah, that's the line.
04:15 Oh, I thought you did a movie called "Sweet Birthday Baby."
04:18 No, no, that was for a Russian doll.
04:20 Oh, "Sweet Birthday Baby."
04:21 Yeah, this is great because we're just revealing
04:24 how little of each other's work we've actually seen.
04:27 It's not about the work. It's about the human,
04:31 the connection.
04:32 Oh, my God.
04:33 What genre of film have you always wanted to do
04:35 but haven't done yet?
04:38 You're actually the perfect person to talk about this to.
04:41 I think I want to get into, like, horror,
04:45 but this is the thing.
04:47 I easily get scared in real life.
04:49 Is it scary to film scary movies?
04:52 No, but I feel like that actually,
04:53 you would be phenomenal in it
04:55 because then over and over, take after take,
04:58 I feel like you might not get used to it.
04:59 It's not scary at all.
05:01 It's, you know, demons walking around,
05:03 you know, drinking Starbucks and, you know, doing--
05:05 Oh, okay. So it's the in-between takes
05:08 that demystifies it a bit.
05:10 People accidentally spitting on each other.
05:11 It's a whole-- you just kind of get used to it.
05:14 I really want to do a musical, like, really badly.
05:16 I really want to do a musical.
05:18 Yes.
05:19 Does it count if I say silent?
05:20 Nobody does silent movies anymore.
05:22 Memorable fan moment?
05:25 Um, I think when I did Thor Love and Thunder
05:28 and I saw little girls dressed up as Lady Thor,
05:32 as the mighty Thor, it was very exciting.
05:35 I feel like there was some interesting ones
05:37 with Killer Neve because, I don't know,
05:40 Villanelle was, you know, psychopathic kind of killer.
05:44 So there was some often, like, odd requests
05:46 for people asking me to, like,
05:48 strangle them for a photograph.
05:50 There was definitely an era of that which I remember.
05:54 As a fan, meeting The Rock.
05:56 - What? - Yeah.
05:57 - You met The Rock? - Met The Rock.
05:59 I just couldn't speak.
06:01 I just kept looking up at him.
06:03 And I was like, "Oh, shit."
06:05 I was like, "Sorry about this."
06:07 You know, and he went, "Come here," to me,
06:08 and took me in, and I hugged him.
06:10 It was so nice.
06:12 I've seen tattoos of myself,
06:13 which was really, really strange to see in person.
06:16 Or I've had the whole, "Sign right here,
06:18 and I'll get it tattooed," and I botched it bad.
06:21 Like, there was no coming back from that,
06:23 and it was sharpie, so I felt like it was smearing
06:25 'cause I tried to fix it.
06:26 It was super stressful.
06:28 That was pretty memorable.
06:29 Do you have any rituals or superstitions
06:31 as it relates to giving a performance?
06:35 - No. - No?
06:36 - No, not really. - I have superstitions,
06:38 but, like, more about, like, getting onto a plane.
06:41 My mom started one with me.
06:43 What?
06:44 - You have to wear new socks on a plane.
06:47 And if you don't have new socks on,
06:49 you can have them also, like, in your suitcase or with you.
06:53 - You know, when I was taught growing up,
06:54 just culturally,
06:55 whenever you have a significant experience,
06:57 a part of you will stay there.
06:59 Your spirit will hang out there.
07:00 So when you're leaving, you call yourself.
07:02 So you just-- - Wow.
07:03 - So I do take to doing that if it's under my breath
07:06 or whatever, and if it's particularly a really hard scene.
07:09 I don't want to let myself linger there.
07:10 I have to stay present with myself.
07:12 So when you're walking off,
07:14 or when I'm walking off set or walking away from it,
07:15 just quick, "Lily, come on."
07:17 - [gasps]
07:18 That's so beautiful.
07:19 - Yeah, it works. - Yeah.
07:21 - Good old Blackfeet wisdom.
07:22 - Do you remember your first audition?
07:25 - Yes, I do.
07:26 It was for, like, a commercial.
07:29 - What commercial?
07:30 - I think Doritos.
07:31 - Oh, what flavor?
07:33 - Cool Ranch. - Oh.
07:35 - No, it was for regular Doritos,
07:36 but Cool Ranch is my favorite.
07:38 - Did you get the job? - No.
07:41 - Sorry to bring it up. - Thanks.
07:43 - Next question.
07:44 - There was a cup that went around
07:46 with everybody's names written on a Popsicle stick.
07:48 - Okay.
07:49 - And when the characters were read,
07:51 it's like, "Okay, now for this role,
07:52 you would pull your name."
07:53 And I remember when it came around to the lead role,
07:56 I was willing my name to come out of that cup,
07:58 and sure enough, it did.
07:59 - Wow, that manifestation right there.
08:00 - Yep, yep.
08:02 You know, I kind of miss that process, honestly.
08:03 It's a lot less pressure.
08:05 - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
08:07 Bring the Popsicle sticks.
08:09 - I don't remember what I did when I was in the fourth grade.
08:11 I was the state of New Mexico.
08:14 And--
08:15 - You were the state of New Mexico.
08:17 - Yes, basically, my mother had to make a costume
08:19 that was the state of New Mexico,
08:21 but I think it was literally just
08:22 the cutout of New Mexico.
08:23 And then I came out and I just said, "New Mexico!"
08:26 And then I sat down.
08:27 So I think that was-- that wasn't an audition,
08:29 but I think I got the role.
08:30 - Advice would I have given myself a year ago?
08:33 I think, like, be patient with yourself.
08:36 - Make sure you sleep.
08:38 - Did you have a hard time remembering to do that?
08:40 - No, yet.
08:41 I only started getting more than six hours of sleep
08:44 like three months ago.
08:45 - What? - Yeah.
08:46 - Get as much sleep as you can.
08:48 - Sleep more. - Wow.
08:50 - Charles, from a year ago.
08:52 - And the work that you're putting in,
08:55 it matters, and people are gonna see it.
08:58 And the dreams that you've dreamed for yourself,
09:02 what you will experience a year from now,
09:04 will surpass it.
09:07 So just enjoy it.
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