THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 79 NOVEMBER 6, 2019
MAJORS GROOMING BY SINCERE GILES.TAALL ENNTHunter Schafer^ / 19
The breakouts in HBO’s
Euphoria are almost too
many to name individually,
but Schafer deserves spe-
cial kudos for the fact that
she seemingly came out of
nowhere. It’s the model and
actress’ first acting gig —
though landing a major role
opposite Zendaya in the raw
high school drama is hardly
her first major accomplish-
ment. While she was still in
her early teens, the young
activist rose to prominence
when she and her father
became two of the most out-
spoken protestors against
North Carolina’s HB2 — the
ultimately repealed “bath-
room bill” that sought to
keep Schafer and her fellow
transgender peers from
using the public restrooms
of their gender identity.
I’D LOVE TO HAVE A CAREER
LIKE “Tilda Swinton
or AnohnI”Spotify acquired the company for
around $56 million, even though at
first Cutler wasn’t looking to sell.
“It [gave me] resources to actu-
ally grow Parcast,” the University
of Arizona alum says of why he
changed his mind. Cutler, who cele-
brated the deal by taking his friends
to Las Vegas for the weekend, has
indeed expanded Parcast, tripling
his downtown L.A.-based staff to 80
people, launching ambitious pod-
cast series Horoscope Today and
prepping a slate of 35 new shows
that will debut in 2020.
WEIRDEST WAY I’VE MET A CLIENT/COL-
LABORATOR “On a Bumble date. We
quickly realized our path forward
would be to work together instead
of dating!”KUDZI CHIKUMBU / 32
Director of Creator Community,
TikTok
As a child in South Africa,
Zimbabwe-born Chikumbu idolized
Oprah. But the University of Cape
Town grad took a detour from his
entertainment ambitions, working as
an accountant and consultant for his
first few professional years. After he
graduated from the Stanford MBA
program, he took a role at social
media startup Musical.ly. During his
three years with the company —
which in that time was acquired by
China’s ByteDance and rebranded
as TikTok — he’s risen through the
ranks and now oversees the team
that helps creators make the most
of the fast-growing platform and its
1 billion users. Chikumbu — who in
his spare time reviews candles on
his humorous Instagram account
@sircandle man — helped organize
TikTok’s first appearance at VidCon
in July, where the company’s at-
capacity party was the talk of the
conference. Says Chikumbu: “It was
truly the debut of a platform and a
creator community.”
THE PERSON I’D SWITCH JOBS WITH FOR
A DAY RihannaCOLIN DAVIS / 29
Content Executive, Quibi
In 2018, Davis took a risk by leaving
TBS (where he worked on Search
Party and brought in former SNL-er
Nasim Pedrad’s Chad) for a role run-
ning comedy at yet-to-launch mobile
video platform Quibi. “The future is
always a scary step for anyone to take,