Rose Byrne Is Nobody’s Buzzkill

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“Don’t you have a lock?” Rose Byrne asks, her forehead under her bathing cap creasing with concern. We’re in the women’s locker room at the YMCA on 14th Street, steps away from the pool — the only pool, Byrne has informed me, that she has found in her decade-plus of living in  New York that even comes […]

Kerry Washington Wants You to Ask Yourself If You’re Still Blaming the Victim

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Our April cover star–a self-described “person who has always been politically active and passionate about people’s rights”–opens up about her most political project to date. In 1991, the year Anita Hill, a 35-year-old law professor from the University of Oklahoma, appeared at the confirmation hearing of Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, Kerry Washington was just 14 years […]

The Woolly Mammoth in the Coal Mine

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The gilded mammoth skeleton by Damien Hirst. — Faena House, Miami Beach’s new clubhouse for the rich, rises just steps from the menacing turquoise sea. Photograph by Ivan Belaustegui Courtesy of Faena What would the woolly mammoth tell us, if it could speak, about what it’s like to go extinct? Probably it would point out […]

What Will HBO’s Sesame Street Look Like?

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In August, PBS made a surprising announcement: It was handing over the reins of its iconic children’s show Sesame Street to HBO, where new episodes will begin airing this month. To outsiders, the idea of putting Big Bird and Elmo on the same shelf as Game of Thrones and Cathouse: The Series seemed odd — not least because, as many pointed out, Sesame Street’s […]

Michael Burry, Real-Life Market Genius From The Big Short, Thinks Another Financial Crisis Is Looming

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Real-life Michael Burry (left), and Christian Bale (right), who played Burry in the film The Big Short. Photo: Getty Images, Plan B Entertainment If The Big Short, Adam McKay’s adaptation of Michael Lewis’s book about the 2008 financial crisis and the subject of last month’s Vulture cover story, got you all worked up over the holidays, you’re probably wondering what […]

The Ultimate Feel-Furious Movie About Wall Street

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“Can we get a shot of the napkin?” Adam McKay asked his director of photography, pointing toward the table where an uncharacteristically angry-looking Steve Carell was seated, doodling fiercely. The cocktail napkin in question bore the name of Okada, the glitzy Japanese restaurant in the Wynn Las Vegas where New York hedge-fund manager Steve Eisman […]

Christian Bale on The Big Short and Meeting the Real-Life American Psychos

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“Can we get a shot of the napkin?” Adam McKay asked his director of photography, pointing toward the table where an uncharacteristically angry-looking Steve Carell was seated, doodling fiercely. The cocktail napkin in question bore the name of Okada, the glitzy Japanese restaurant in the Wynn Las Vegas where New York hedge-fund manager Steve Eisman first […]

Steve Carell on The Big Short, Studying Hedge-Funders, and His Style Advice to Ryan Gosling

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Adam McKay’s The Big Short stars Steve Carell as Steve Eisman, a hedge-funder who shorted the market spectacularly during the crisis. We spoke with him about following up his Oscar-nominated turn in Foxcatcher and “workout pizza.” What did you think when they approached you about playing Steve Eisman, or Mark Baum, as the cranky main protagonist […]

Ryan Gosling on The Big Short, Finding the Humor in the Financial Meltdown, and Why He’ll Probably Never Wear a Wig Again

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Adam McKay’s The Big Short — the subject of this week’s Vulture cover story — stars Ryan Gosling as a version of Greg Lippmann, a slick Deutsche Bank trader (he also gives some interstitial, direct-to-camera informative narration). We spoke with him about how to play a guy who bets against the American economy, how to […]

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