Issue No. 37, November 13, 2019
FEATURES
62 ‘Right Now, It’s Dope to
Work With Women’
At THR’s Actress Roundtable,
six awards-season hopefuls open
up about post-#MeToo fears
(“What I really want is for it not to
be a fad”) and more: “I’m just out
here working my ass off and trying
to fulfill myself creatively.”72 The Secret Past of a
Hollywood Futurist
Before Yves Bergquist was a director
at USC’s Entertainment Technology
Center and a major figure in the
industry’s AI revolution, he was Alexis
Debat, a scandalized national secu-
rity expert and ABC News consultant
who fled D.C. for lying.76 Awards Playbook:
How Crafts Keep It Real
Revamping a comic book villain, re-
creating the Sistine Chapel, outfitting
a pop icon: Top craftspeople reveal
what it took to bring to life the sea-
son’s contenders.82 Anatomy of a Contender:
Making of Ford v Ferrari
From crash diets to crashed cars
(and a disappearing studio),
the decade-long journey to the
screen for this racing epic was
a bumpy one: “It’s far more taxing
than people realize.”“I was so terrified,” says
Jennifer Lopez of her role
in Hustlers. “I think that
was putting myself out
there, in a way, deeper than
I had ever done physically
and emotionally.”
Photographed here and for
the cover by Kwaku Alston
ON THE COVER
Clockwise from bottom
left: Renée Zellweger,
Lupita Nyong’o, Laura
Dern, Jennifer Lopez,
Scarlett Johansson and
Awkwafina were photo-
graphed Oct. 26 at
Line 204 in Los Angeles.62