Profiles

He’s dominated social media with viral videos as involved as feature films. Now, with an “unhinged” narrative series and an Emma Stone movie on the way, he’s making the leap from the timeline to the big time. “When you continue to evolve,” says the self-proclaimed superstar, “people have no idea what you can truly become.”

With now infamous artistic commitment, actor Jeremy Strong made us love Succession’s biggest failson—and earned a place in the prestige TV firmament. The Social Reckoning offers an even bigger challenge.

The 23-year-old actor skyrocketed to fame with his debut, The Holdovers. Now, with Tony, he’s back in another coming-of-age leading role, playing only one of the most widely beloved figures of the 21st century. No pressure.

Sam Pinkleton, the Tony winner behind Oh, Mary! and The Rocky Horror Show, has brought a sweaty downtown energy back to midtown’s biggest stages. It nearly killed him.

“People come up to me and they kind of treat me like I’m not human,” says the 19-year-old BYU forward, who’s projected to be selected first overall at Tuesday’s draft.

After conquering King’s Landing and staring down online negativity, Alcock is gearing up to battle superhero fatigue at the box office as a punk-rock, Gen-Z Supergirl—and coming to terms with losing her secret identity.

After two decades of fame and a mega-franchise under his belt, the actor thought he was used to exposure. Now, after a Gen Z-ified promo tour for I Love LA, Hutcherson talks about seeing everything in a new light—and lets us in on his impeccable grooming routine.

The OnlyFans and TikTok celebrity Sophie Rain has reshaped online stardom—and made, she says, $100 million in three years—by posting mostly bikini photos and suggestive videos for fans captivated by her chaste image.

As the musician returns with a new solo album, Dinner Party, he opens up about how entering his 30s and settling down helped him finally look back.

At a moment when country music is bigger than ever, Luke Combs is the rare superstar sticking to a traditional sound. But what he really wants to do is open the tent to everyone, whatever they believe and wherever they're from. With Wembley Stadium dates on the calendar, cover bands spawning abroad, and Garth Brooks calling him “the future of country,” he’s well on his way.

In his new series Bait—about an actor who gets caught up in Bond-casting frenzy—Riz Ahmed shows sides of himself he once felt he had to hide.

When an album they'd made in college became an unlikely inspiration to generations of young rock bands, American Football got back together and hit the road—but can the reluctant Midwest-emo heroes survive midlife?

The 27-year-old snake wrangler became a reality TV sensation, first on Love Island and now as the winner of the latest season of The Traitors. GQ traveled down to Alabama to hang with Rausch on his own turf and learn exactly how he got so good at the game.

The out-of-nowhere star strapped on John-John’s Rollerblades—and shouldered the tragic legacy of an American icon—to lead Ryan Murphy’s latest hit.

At 24, the Detroit Pistons point guard has begun to steadily reverse the fate of his long-beleaguered franchise—becoming one of the youngest and most laid-back members of the league’s ultra elite. GQ hung out with him in the Motor City and his hometown of Dallas to learn the secret to his relaxed greatness.

Rolling with the lord of online “looksmaxxing” as he meets the press, hits the runway, and tangles with his haters during a chaotic weekend in Manhattan.

In his debut fashion campaign for Balenciaga, the Heated Rivalry star exclusively tells GQ about choosing his next roles, his hopes for Shane Hollander, and what’s keeping him “most zen” these days.

In the nearly four years since they went on break for mandatory military service in South Korea, the members of BTS have grown as artists and men, launching distinct solo careers to huge success. Now, the biggest band in the world is reuniting with a fifth studio album, a massive global tour, and a definitive answer to whether they’re stronger alone or together.

“It’s what I signed up for,” says the 22-year-old Wisconsin star, who will become the first-ever Black woman to play for Team USA at the Olympics. “So it’s nothing crazy.”

After flying high in Top Gun: Maverick and saving the universe in Marvel’s Thunderbolts*, the actor wanted to go naturalistic on his next project. Enter The Testament of Ann Lee—an eccentric period drama which forced him to face some long-gestating anxieties.