WASPy long read Vanity Fair have unveiled the three panel gatefold cover of their 20th annual Hollywood Issue, usually a notoriously white-washed indication of the entertainment industry’s most bankable commodities and rising talent – shot as usual by Annie Leibovitz – but this year featuring some noteworthy additions in the form of your favourite Neighbours alum Margot Robbie, and also Non-White Actors, which until now has been unheard of where any Hollywood Issue cover is concerned.
As The Wire points out, between 1995 and 2013 only 17 of the 177 actors who have graced the cover have been black (not including the multiple appearances of Rosario Dawson and Kerry Washington). Actors like Anthony Mackie have also previously been hidden behind the foil (2011) – disappointingly, that also appears to have happened to the incredible Lupita Nyong’o, who wholly deserves a place on the cover for her eviscerating performance in 12 Years A Slave. Still, progress! Diversity!
From left to right – so, from the part you see on the newsstand to the part you only see if you shill for Vanity Fair – Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years A Slave), Julia Roberts (August: Osage County), Idris Elba (Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom), George Clooney (Gravity), Michael B. Jordan (Fruitvale Station), Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club), Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years A Slave), Naomie Harris (Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom), Brie Larson (Short Term 12), Chadwick Boseman (42), Margot Robbie (The Wolf of Wall Street) and Léa Seydoux (Blue Is The Warmest Colour). Everyone looks amazing, natch.
The March issue of Vanity Fair goes on sale from February 11th and also contains a once damning hatchet job exposé on Gwyneth Paltrow that she tried and failed to have killed.
Photo: Annie Leibovitz via Vanity Fair
