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through age 18, time off from started there, and we were together all the time—it was like our church; we loved it. It was magical.”served—she orders a bowl of mixed berries; I get a croissant you married a whole family.”I belong to something that’s, like, bigger than just me.”with a side of crispy bacon.“You must enjoy a crowd,” I say. “WShe pauses a moment as our late-morning snacks are Picking up a blueberry with two fingers, she turns it this “W“It’s true,” Turner says. “I need that, because I like to feel like ere you always a Jonas Brothers fan?” GoT permitting. “All my friends hen you married Joe,
had once lived next door to the Jo-way and that, as if lost in a fleeting memory. “MI were not Jonas Brothers fans,” she says, laughing wickedly. nas Brothers, told her: “You should ues. “They had a hit called ‘Year 3000.’ It was amazing, and we were huge Busted fans. Then the Jonas Brothers covered the song and made it massive. And Busted broke up. Wmeet Joe Jonas. I feel like you would it was all the Jonas Brothers’ fault. So we hated them.”when one of the producers, who Turner remembers that she was working on a movie in 2016 “There was this band in the UK called Busted,” she contin-y friends and e thought
to hang out while he was in town. really get along with this guy.” to a meeting, and Joe’s agent was in the room. And he was like, ‘You remind me of one of my clients. I bet you two would really hit it off.’”in Camden, in a really rough flat—ing the UK. Before he arrived, he DMNot long after, she says, “I went “I was living with my friends Later in the year, Jonas was tour-ed her and asked if she wanted
out of the windows. Wpeople were always climbing in and cause in the back of my mind I still worried that he could be my friends, they were like, ‘That’s hilarious. You have to do it! And you have to text us everything he says.’a catfish—or I don’t know what. I just wanted my guy friends with security and everything. I thought, ‘He’s gonna be such a dick.’ I brought all my guy friends to come with me to meet him, be-“I expected him to show up hen I told
talked for hours, and hours, and hours. And I was, like, not bored. drank just as hard as the rest of us. I remember the two of us local shitty bar, dirty, with great music and people throwing up everywhere. It was that kind of place. Kind of like the worst, but also kind of the best. It wasn’t contrived. It wasn’t small talk—it was just so easy. And with me. I had my rugby boys. I was safe.”spending only a couple of minutes on the dance floor, and then we just found a space far in the corner and we just talked. Wsoon we were, like, inseparable. I went on tour with him.”The meetup happened at a bar in Camden. “It was just this “He didn’t bring security. He brought a friend, and they e
The couple became engaged on their first anniversary. She is wearing her engagement ring now—a solitaire pear-cut diamond set on a double pavé band in white gold—with its matching pavé wedding ring. Her fingers are long and slim. “I was the tall girl,” she says. “I looked about four years older


at A Little Wthan I actually was. Wup to here”—she points to her rib cage—“and it was very em-barrassing. I had an interview with a ballet academy where you board to go to school, and you take all your lessons there. It’s very serious. I auditioned to go there. And they said I was, like, too tall to be a ballerina.”had a second, more formal ceremony in the South of France. relationship?” I ask. in Las Vegas, at a ceremony officiated by an Elvis impersonator They were married twice. The first time was on M“How is being married different from being in a committed hite Wedding Chapel. Nearly two months later, they hen I was 10, the boys in my year were ay 1, 2019,
and our different things. But right now, it’s like the security and the word the safety is everything. this incredible sense of security. Just the word married. I think it’s wonderful. I’m sure we’ll have our hiccups encing the J Sisters, “who are actually really cool, who I can “I feel like the only thing that’s changed for me is having “It’s also nice to have built-in girlfriends,” she adds, refer-wife—it just solidifies the relationship. I love being hang out with and we can really talk to each other about, like, how crazy the boys’ lives are. Wlate on so many different levels. It’s husbande can re- and
know [about your in-laws].the biggest thing in India right now. there. It’s kinda crazy. But she’s just like royalty. They worship her over crazy. You have to remind yourself that she’s basically had a 20-year ca-reer in Bollywood already. She’s like like, thank God, because you never WNick’s wedding, we were treated the nicest person, and they live, like, hen we went there for her and “With Pri, especially, it’s kind of
actual phone. (They provided a new Google Pixel.) The pack-the production team, to view Turner’s show, sey, we see them all the time. It’s like we’re all one big family, because the boys are best friends.”Before m10 minutes away. And even though Kevin and Danielle live in New Jer-Hollywood, where I became the first person, outside of Quibi and stopped by Quibi headquarters in eeting Turner, I had Survive, on an
viewer to turn the phone either horizontally or vertically—back ing was unexpectedly accessible; the cinematography was and forth at will—to experience an entirely different cut of the visual content, shot with additional cameras. sode three was done. I definitely wanted more. in rapid succession on a sofa in a glass conference room, the phone propped upon my man purse atop my lap. The view-age features a technology called Turnstyle, which enables the gorgeously detailed. Turner’s performance was intense and compelling. Hawkins had just entered the picture when epi-I was given three episodes of the series, which I watched “The second I finished Game of Thrones,” Turner says, “I
wanted to go straight back to some form of television. I just love it’s kinda one of those things where you go, ‘I don’t really know if this is gonna work, but I wanna be a part of it.’ And then I read the script and I fell in love with it.” the atmosphere that you get on the set. I love the arc you can cre-ate over a number of episodes. When I found out about Quibi, HAIR BY CHRISTIAN^ WOOD^ AND^ MAKEUP^ BY^ LISA^ STOREY,^ BOTH^ A

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