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February 08, 2020
Long a rite of passage in Hollywood, the V.F. profile has illuminated such interview subjects as Brad Pitt, Renée Zellweger, Cynthia Erivo, and Leonardo DiCaprio, whether they were beginning their ascent as ingenue or on the road to reinvention. Here, six stories from the Vanity Fair Archive, unlocked just for you.
Playing the hero of Titanic, James Cameron's monumental $200 million love-story-within-an-epic, Leonardo DiCaprio found himself hoisted on hydraulic cranes and, surrounded by 200 extras on bungee cords, flying above a 17-million-gallon water tank. Tracing DiCaprio's rise in 1998, Cathy Horyn squares the contradictions of a Hollywood heartthrob who still lives with his mother.
When she melted Tom Cruise's heart in Jerry Maguire, Renée Zellweger staked her claim to star status after just three years in Hollywood. In 1997, as the 28-year-old Texas sensation measures herself against legends such as Faye Dunaway and Shirley MacLaine, Kevin Sessums finds Zellweger bringing both head and heart to her next role, opposite Tim Roth, in a psychological thriller directed by her boyfriend, Josh Pate, and his twin brother, Jonas.
His body made its debut in Thelma & Louise; the rest of him emerged in Interview With the Vampire. With his big, romantic Western, Legends of the Fall, opening this month, Brad Pitt is the hottest young heartthrob to hit the screen in years. Visiting the nascent superstar in his new terraced and balconied hillside home in 1995, Johanna Schneller explores how a monosyllabic Missouri boy caused so much commotion in Hollywood—without even trying.
Cynthia Erivo stunned Broadway in The Color Purple—but it's a star turn as Harriet Tubman, Yohana Desta writes in 2019, that's helped her truly find her voice.
Where has he been? In the six years since Scarface, the Hamlet of Hollywood has been locked into the pale cast of thought—doing covert stage work and obsessing over the cutting and recutting of a 50-minute masterpiece. Now he's emerging from his clandestine phase with Sea of Love, and preparing for Godfather III with Diane Keaton. In 1989, Ron Rosenbaum reveals the method behind the madness.
Don't call it a Dernaissance—the Big Little Lies star as always been a force. As of 2019, the world is just playing catch-up.
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