In another life, Roselyn Keo might have liked to work on Wall Street. “I’m smart enough, I know,” she told me, sitting in the immaculate white kitchen of her suburban home. She’s organized, she pointed out, and good at math, and there is little doubt she has an entrepreneurial streak. As a kid, she said, […]
Rose Byrne Is Nobody’s Buzzkill
“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 […]
I Gave Up Partying with Celebs to Be a Mom, and I Wouldn’t Change a Thing
Babies: the ultimate answer to FOMO. One of the main things people with kids tell you when you are pregnant is that when the baby comes, Your Priorities Will Change. Upon laying eyes on the wrinkled Churchillian face of your own creation, you will feel a love so strong, so unconditionally true, actual cartoon hearts […]
Kerry Washington Wants You to Ask Yourself If You’re Still Blaming the Victim
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
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 […]
Michael Burry, Real-Life Market Genius From The Big Short, Thinks Another Financial Crisis Is Looming
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
“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 […]
Steve Carell on The Big Short, Studying Hedge-Funders, and His Style Advice to Ryan Gosling
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
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 […]
What’s the Etiquette of Hooking Up With ‘the Help’?
Alicia* wasn’t sure what to do when the TaskRabbit she’d hired finished building her Ikea Billy bookcase, wiped his hands on his jeans, and asked her out. “It’s not like he was some old guy with plumber’s crack,” the 27-year-old Cobble Hill resident said later. “He was a good-looking guy, and I think he had […]
Brad Pitt on Producing and Starring in The Big Short, the Financial Crash, and What Keeps Him Up at Night
Adam McKay’s new financial-apocalypse comedy The Big Short — thesubject of this week’s Vulture cover story — was produced by Brad Pitt, who also took a small role in the film to help ensure the production got properly funded. Here, Pitt talks about his sideline as a genuine prestige-movie mogul (with his company Plan B), […]
The Big Short Author Michael Lewis on Watching His Book on the Big Screen and What Hasn’t Changed Since the Crash
This week’s Vulture cover story, on Adam McKay’s The Big Short, asks whether America is angry enough for a Hollywood version of Occupy Wall Street, and if McKay’s brand of dick jokes can actually teach us something about the financial crisis and what went wrong in 2008. The man who really knows what went wrong […]
Chiwetel Ejiofor Is OK Being Approached by your Mom on the Sidewalk
He’s a distinguished actor’s actor who’s no stranger to plumbing the dark depths of the human condition. It’s the start of the holiday season. But it’s not the nip in the air or the smell of chestnuts roasting on an open fire that reminds Chiwetel Ejiofor that Christmas is coming. It’s the people who come […]
Meet Balmain’s Olivier Rousteing, Fashion’s BFF
He may be as famous for his Instagram exploits—partying with models, canoodling with Kardashians—as for his work cool-ifying the venerable French fashion label Balmain. But Olivier Rousteing, the 30-year-old designer whose buzzy H&M collaboration launches this month, says he’s out to upend an industry that’s too old and too white to reach millennials like him […]
The Many Lives and Love Affairs of Mary-Louise Parker
Mary-Louise Parker has long been known as a different kind of Hollywood creature. On the occasion of her new memoir, Jessica Pressler observes the untamed, unfiltered actress in her natural habitat. So there’s this bird up at Mary-Louise Parker’s farmhouse in upstate New York. “And it keeps flying into the same fucking spot in the […]
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