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We not only published an interview with Leonardo DiCaprio yesterday but also a portfolio of Hollywood people we consider mavericks—men and women in show business who've boldly built careers by defying expectations. Among them is the actor Lee Pace, one of the most dynamic and unpredictable actors working today. You need to know this guy. You can read Madison Vain's excellent profile of Pace here. – Michael Sebastian, editor-in-chief Plus: |
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The star of Apple TV+'s Foundation has stitched together one of the most dynamic, category-defying onscreen careers of his generation. So what's his secret?
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"I realize the theme that I've given you in this interview is that I just keep bumbling around, but I feel like I lucked into it," says Lee Pace. The forty-six-year-old star of Apple's ambitious Foundation adaptation—which returned for its third season in July—is talking about finding his way into high school drama during his Texas youth, but it's a sentiment he repeats frequently during our time together: good fortune. Ear problems ended his swim career; theater provided a social lifeline. Curiosity soon turned to passion, which led to acting school at Juilliard and then to his first TV-movie role in Soldier's Girl in 2003.
Offer by offer, in the twenty-plus years since, the six-foot-five actor stitched together one of the most dynamic, category-defying onscreen careers of his generation. It hasn't been by accident, but it hasn't, he assures me, been by grand design either. "I remember my mom telling me, 'You know what, Lee, you're lucky. You've always been lucky,' " Pace recalls. "It's a little gift she gave me. Somehow, when your mom says something like that, it becomes true." |
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Vintage whiskey is surging in popularity. Economic uncertainty has cooled the secondary market. Social media has turned dusty bottles into content gold. And drinkers in the post-pandemic world are choosing quality over quantity. But the real appeal lies in a simpler truth: You're not buying alcohol, you're buying time travel. The best part? You can skip "they don't make 'em like they used to" nostalgia and just buy what they used to make. There's a trove of vintage whiskey out there for sale, legally. Here's how to find and buy vintage whiskey at reasonable prices—between $50 and $500—and properly open, drink, and store your finds. |
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In DiCaprio's latest film, One Battle After Another, he plays Bob Ferguson, a washed-up revolutionary and dad to a teenage daughter, Willa, played by Chase Infiniti in her first film role. Opposite him are Teyana Taylor as the absent mom, Benicio Del Toro as the ally, and Sean Penn as the villain. One Battle After Another is a big movie—an action film with car chases, a spy-craft yarn with a clandestine agent who's drunk and stoned, and a political thriller with reverberations for our interesting times. The writer and director is Paul Thomas Anderson, whose films—like Boogie Nights, Magnolia, and There Will Be Blood—are operatic renderings of human frailty. The movies are visceral and often haunting. They can also be hilarious, and they're always wildly entertaining.
One Battle After Another is his first film with DiCaprio. Both men rarely give interviews, and their life and work are the subject of bottomless curiosity and speculation. This summer, they had two conversations: one in Leo's kitchen, another over the phone. We gave them some prompts, some of which they indulged, others not so much. But the result is a rare glimpse into the minds of two of Hollywood's most daring and original men. |
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