I MEET THE ACTRESS Naomi Ackie outside Angel Station in North London on a balmy July afternoon. After doing the very British commentary-on-the-weather thing, we take a right and climb down a few steps onto the narrow canal path lined with houseboats. Ackie started these daily walks during the pandemic after moving out of a house share into her own place, though she’s quick to add that she’s still renting: “I don’t come from money.” As we talk, she smoothly navigates by the bikes whizzing past us and coos at cute dogs. This neighborhood feels good for her soul, she says. “I don’t think I’ll ever leave.” ¶ She moved to Angel from Tottenham around the same time she got the main role in the music biopic Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody in 2020. While preparing for that film, she was offered the lead in the new psychological thriller Blink Twice. Next year, she’ll be in Bong Joon Ho’s upcoming sci-fi epic, Mickey 17. “When it rains, it pours,” she says with a grin.
Directed by Zoë Kravitz, who began writing the script with E.T. Feigenbaum in 2017, Blink Twice, formerly called Pussy Island, picks apart gendered power dynamics and trauma through the lens of the superelite. Ackie plays Frida, an undervalued caterer infatuated with a billionaire tech bro named Slater King (an unsettling Channing Tatum), who has recently been canceled for an unnamed indiscretion. After Frida and her best friend, Jess (Alia Shawkat), charm him at a dinner, he whisks them away to his private tropical island alongside a handful of other guests, including a former contestant on a Survivor-type reality show (Adria Arjona) and Slater’s smarmy right-hand man, Vic (Christian Slater). On the island, they eat exquisite meals and throw lavish, drugfueled parties, but eventually Frida realizes something is very, very wrong.
この記事は New York magazine の Aug 12 - 25, 2024 版に掲載されています。
7 日間の Magzter GOLD 無料トライアルを開始して、何千もの厳選されたプレミアム ストーリー、9,000 以上の雑誌や新聞にアクセスしてください。
すでに購読者です ? サインイン
この記事は New York magazine の Aug 12 - 25, 2024 版に掲載されています。
7 日間の Magzter GOLD 無料トライアルを開始して、何千もの厳選されたプレミアム ストーリー、9,000 以上の雑誌や新聞にアクセスしてください。
すでに購読者です? サインイン
THE BEST ART SHOWS OF THE YEAR
IN NOVEMBER, Sotheby's made history when it sold for a million bucks a painting made by artificial intelligence. Ai-Da, \"the first humanoid robot artist to have an artwork auctioned by a major auction house,\" created a portrait of Alan Turing that resembles nothing more than a bad Francis Bacon rip-off. Still, the auction house described the sale as \"a new frontier in the global art market.\"
THE BIGGEST PODCAST MOMENTS OF THE YEAR
A STRANGE THING happened with podcasts in 2024: The industry was repeatedly thrust into the spotlight owing to a preponderance of head-turning events and a presidential-election cycle that radically foregrounded the medium's consequential nature. To reflect this, we've carved out a list of ten big moments from the year as refracted through podcasting.
THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
THE YEAR IN CULTURE - BEST BOOKS
THE BEST THEATER OF THE YEAR
IT'S BEEN a year of successful straight plays, even measured by a metric at which they usually do poorly: ticket sales. Partially that's owed to Hollywood stars: Jeremy Strong, Jim Parsons, Rachel Zegler, Rachel McAdams (to my mind, the most compelling).
THE BEST ALBUMS OF THE YEAR
2024 WAS one big stress test that presented artists with a choice: Face uncomfortable realities or serve distractions to the audience. Pop music turned inward while hip-hop weathered court cases and incalculable losses. Country struggled to reconcile conservative interests with a much wider base of artists. But the year's best music offered a reprieve.
THE BEST TELEVISION OF THE YEAR
IT WAS SURPRISING how much 2024 felt like an uneventful wake for the Peak TV era. There was still great television, but there was much more mid or meh television and far fewer moments when a critical mass of viewers seemed equally excited about the same series.
THE BEST COMEDY SPECIALS OF THE YEAR
THE YEAR IN CULTURE - COMEDY SPECIALS
THE BEST MOVIES OF THE YEAR
PEOPLE LOVED Megalopolis, hated it, puzzled over it, clipped it into memes, and tried to astroturf it into a camp classic, but, most important, they cared about it even though it featured none of the qualities you'd expect of a breakthrough work in these noisy times.
A Truly Great Time
This was the year our city's new restaurants loosened up.
The Art of the Well-Stuffed Stocking
THE CHRISTMAS ENTHUSIASTS on the Strategist team gathered to discuss the oversize socks they drape on their couches and what they put inside them.
