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Thirty-five years after playing the Ghost With the Most made him into an A-list star (and, soon after, a superhero), the legendary screen eccentric whom Jenna Ortega calls “strangely normal” returns to old haunts in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and tells GQ what he’s learned from surviving decades in a fickle business: “You can get insecure and nervous, and go, ‘Wow, boy, I'm not doing so great right now.’ But when you get desperate, you're dead.”

The Pacers point guard transformed himself from unheralded prospect to full-fledged NBA superstar—and, hopefully, Olympic gold medalist. If you doubt him, all the better. “That's the fun part: it's just another chip on my shoulder.”

The Crown star turned newly-minted Marvel antagonist shakes off the shackles of period drama to take on an all-new challenge: Going toe to toe with mighty mutants Deadpool and Wolverine in the film that could save (or sink) the MCU onscreen. No pressure.

After years of grinding, Colman Domingo has finally been nominated for an Oscar and become the new king of red-carpet style.

In The Acolyte, set one hundred years before the prequels, Stenberg plays twins who’ve grown up on opposite sides of the Force, in a show that aims to challenge long-held preconceptions about the Star Wars universe. “They’ve called our show The Woke-alyte a fair amount,” Stenberg says. “I’m like, ‘Okay, what about it?’”

This year he won an Emmy for playing Cousin Richie, the cranky loose cannon in The Beef’s kitchen. Next year he’ll be Ben Grimm in Marvel’s Fantastic Four. Some actors wait their whole lives for a moment like this. Moss-Bachrach isn’t one of them. “I was never asking,” he says, “when it was going to be my turn.”

The streaming sensation reveals his real voice, answers the industry-plant allegations, and talks Ye’s and Drake’s endorsements in his exclusive first profile.

The billionaire comedian could be doing anything with his time and talent, so why did he direct a movie about Pop-Tarts? In a candid conversation, Seinfeld explains all that—as well as his role in making that instantly-legendary Curb finale, and his sense that people misunderstood his own show’s notorious ending.

Larry David calls him indispensable. Richard Lewis told him he was “a fucking beast” as a comic actor. But as he prepares to say goodbye to the show that made him an out-of-nowhere comedy star in his 40s, Smoove is facing forward: “I'm still fresh…. I can work with anybody, I can do anything.”

Nearly two years after he walked away from tennis, Roger Federer has found a different rhythm to life—and an exciting new set of challenges. Now, in his most wide-ranging interview since his retirement, Federer reflects on his old rivals, his new passions, and the fresh sense of urgency that drives him: “I feel minutes matter more now than before.”

He spent his teen years in and out of lockdown before trading the trap game for the rap game. But his most unlikely transformation was yet to come. How a former Nashville ne’er-do-well found redemption as a 21st-century country superstar.

Sixteen years after No Country for Old Men turned his career around, the Dune: Part Two star has an actor’s-actor rep and a movie star’s blockbuster résumé. Not bad for a reformed hell-raiser who expected to end up dead or in jail—but whether he’s directing weird-ass TV or writing his life story in a “raw, naked” memoir, he’s still steering into what scares him.

He brought humanity to the Hulk and has played more than one crusader for justice, but it's the role of a villainous peacock in Poor Things that has earned him his latest Oscar nom: “I went to bed a leading man and woke up a character actor. I’m a ‘daddy’ now.”

The pugnacious Harlem rap legend now hosts the most unfiltered hour of commentary in sports with his onetime arch-rival, Mase. But even as he trolls harder than ever—yes, that’s football correspondent O.J. Simpson—Killa Cam is slowly embracing a surprising new philosophy: Love and friendship conquers all.

With a new job as French national team captain and as the undisputed leader of PSG, Kylian Mbappé is reckoning with the responsibilities and privileges that come with being the man.

On the road with the 21-year-old Canadian, who is tying together two of his generation’s most pervasive musical threads—indie rock and SoundCloud rap—in a whole new way.