Yes @angelinajolie. Singing opera is so hard. But I often find myself singing opera between takes when I’m on set. I apologize to everyone I’ve worked with who can attest to this fact. There is something about singing and the full bodied involvement that’s required with classical singing that definitely feeds me as an actress. I’m tagging you @zendaya here because your reaction suggests to me how very seriously you’re taking Ms. Jolie’s suggestion. God I love being an artist and I love hearing great artist talk about their process and the work required to aspire to greatness. My experience is that we often fall short of that greatness. But I absolutely love the process of trying to get there.
Former federal workers on their work with the federal government. We have to fight this. Not sure how but the proper education and knowledge about what’s really happening is a start.
We are human beings. We are a small part of the population but we are everywhere. It isn’t always obvious who is trans and who isn’t. If he had identified himself as trans in that moment, all I was thinking about is him having to go back to that grocery store and his safety possibly being compromised. Stay safe everyone. Remember we are human beings. #TransIsBeautiful #TransRightsAreHumanRights
Less than 1 tenth of 1%. #ProtectTranskids #TransIsBeautiful #TransRightsAreHumanRights
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Some fun video from last night’s @naacpimageawards. The last slide is a beautiful reunion. #oitnb reunion
Some fun video from last night’s @naacpimageawards. The last slide is a beautiful reunion. #oitnb reunion
I had the honor and great pleasure to work with my long time collaborator @sequoiaemmanuelle on this truly inspired editorial for @numero_netherlands. Sequoia set out the vision and concept. Then Lisa Smith Craig @lscstyling brought forth the pull of LIFE! literally through the fires gurl! Gurl! She Styled the ish out of this shoot with a few pieces from my archive that worked with the vision. Sequoia’s team constructed a beautiful set to help tell the story. Then @tayriverabeauty on makeup and @kiyahwrigh on hair came so hard that they’ve inspired a new beauty era for me that I didn’t realize I wanted or needed. So much love creativity and inspiration at every level of this production. Thank you @numero_netherlands for this amazing opportunity. More images to come! Credits Talent: Laverne Cox laverne Cox Photography & Creative director: Sequoia Emmanuelle @sequoiaemmanuelle Main stylist: Lisa Smith Craig @lscstyling @wemergenetwork Hair: Kiyah Wright @kiyahwright1 Makeup: Tay Rivera @tayriverabeauty DIT: Mariangela Quiroga-Cantillo @mariaqphotography Production design (PD): Alicia Angeles @aliciaangeles Hair assistant: Jose Cortez @joselcortezjr Styling team: Essence Carson @essencecarson & Niquita Tamar @niquitatamar PD assistants: Hanna Nordeen @itshanna_time & Sasha Haralambous @sasha.harala@mbous Studio: F16 Dream Studios @f16dreamstudio Editor: Timi Letonja @timiletonja Editorial director & interview: Jana Letonja @janaletonja Cover design: Arthur Roeloffzen @arthurroeloffzen
I had the honor and great pleasure to work with my long time collaborator @sequoiaemmanuelle on this truly inspired editorial for @numero_netherlands. Sequoia set out the vision and concept. Then Lisa Smith Craig @lscstyling brought forth the pull of LIFE! literally through the fires gurl! Gurl! She Styled the ish out of this shoot with a few pieces from my archive that worked with the vision. Sequoia’s team constructed a beautiful set to help tell the story. Then @tayriverabeauty on makeup and @kiyahwrigh on hair came so hard that they’ve inspired a new beauty era for me that I didn’t realize I wanted or needed. So much love creativity and inspiration at every level of this production. Thank you @numero_netherlands for this amazing opportunity. More images to come! Credits Talent: Laverne Cox laverne Cox Photography & Creative director: Sequoia Emmanuelle @sequoiaemmanuelle Main stylist: Lisa Smith Craig @lscstyling @wemergenetwork Hair: Kiyah Wright @kiyahwright1 Makeup: Tay Rivera @tayriverabeauty DIT: Mariangela Quiroga-Cantillo @mariaqphotography Production design (PD): Alicia Angeles @aliciaangeles Hair assistant: Jose Cortez @joselcortezjr Styling team: Essence Carson @essencecarson & Niquita Tamar @niquitatamar PD assistants: Hanna Nordeen @itshanna_time & Sasha Haralambous @sasha.harala@mbous Studio: F16 Dream Studios @f16dreamstudio Editor: Timi Letonja @timiletonja Editorial director & interview: Jana Letonja @janaletonja Cover design: Arthur Roeloffzen @arthurroeloffzen
I had the honor and great pleasure to work with my long time collaborator @sequoiaemmanuelle on this truly inspired editorial for @numero_netherlands. Sequoia set out the vision and concept. Then Lisa Smith Craig @lscstyling brought forth the pull of LIFE! literally through the fires gurl! Gurl! She Styled the ish out of this shoot with a few pieces from my archive that worked with the vision. Sequoia’s team constructed a beautiful set to help tell the story. Then @tayriverabeauty on makeup and @kiyahwrigh on hair came so hard that they’ve inspired a new beauty era for me that I didn’t realize I wanted or needed. So much love creativity and inspiration at every level of this production. Thank you @numero_netherlands for this amazing opportunity. More images to come! Credits Talent: Laverne Cox laverne Cox Photography & Creative director: Sequoia Emmanuelle @sequoiaemmanuelle Main stylist: Lisa Smith Craig @lscstyling @wemergenetwork Hair: Kiyah Wright @kiyahwright1 Makeup: Tay Rivera @tayriverabeauty DIT: Mariangela Quiroga-Cantillo @mariaqphotography Production design (PD): Alicia Angeles @aliciaangeles Hair assistant: Jose Cortez @joselcortezjr Styling team: Essence Carson @essencecarson & Niquita Tamar @niquitatamar PD assistants: Hanna Nordeen @itshanna_time & Sasha Haralambous @sasha.harala@mbous Studio: F16 Dream Studios @f16dreamstudio Editor: Timi Letonja @timiletonja Editorial director & interview: Jana Letonja @janaletonja Cover design: Arthur Roeloffzen @arthurroeloffzen
I had the honor and great pleasure to work with my long time collaborator @sequoiaemmanuelle on this truly inspired editorial for @numero_netherlands. Sequoia set out the vision and concept. Then Lisa Smith Craig @lscstyling brought forth the pull of LIFE! literally through the fires gurl! Gurl! She Styled the ish out of this shoot with a few pieces from my archive that worked with the vision. Sequoia’s team constructed a beautiful set to help tell the story. Then @tayriverabeauty on makeup and @kiyahwrigh on hair came so hard that they’ve inspired a new beauty era for me that I didn’t realize I wanted or needed. So much love creativity and inspiration at every level of this production. Thank you @numero_netherlands for this amazing opportunity. More images to come! Credits Talent: Laverne Cox laverne Cox Photography & Creative director: Sequoia Emmanuelle @sequoiaemmanuelle Main stylist: Lisa Smith Craig @lscstyling @wemergenetwork Hair: Kiyah Wright @kiyahwright1 Makeup: Tay Rivera @tayriverabeauty DIT: Mariangela Quiroga-Cantillo @mariaqphotography Production design (PD): Alicia Angeles @aliciaangeles Hair assistant: Jose Cortez @joselcortezjr Styling team: Essence Carson @essencecarson & Niquita Tamar @niquitatamar PD assistants: Hanna Nordeen @itshanna_time & Sasha Haralambous @sasha.harala@mbous Studio: F16 Dream Studios @f16dreamstudio Editor: Timi Letonja @timiletonja Editorial director & interview: Jana Letonja @janaletonja Cover design: Arthur Roeloffzen @arthurroeloffzen
I had the honor and great pleasure to work with my long time collaborator @sequoiaemmanuelle on this truly inspired editorial for @numero_netherlands. Sequoia set out the vision and concept. Then Lisa Smith Craig @lscstyling brought forth the pull of LIFE! literally through the fires gurl! Gurl! She Styled the ish out of this shoot with a few pieces from my archive that worked with the vision. Sequoia’s team constructed a beautiful set to help tell the story. Then @tayriverabeauty on makeup and @kiyahwrigh on hair came so hard that they’ve inspired a new beauty era for me that I didn’t realize I wanted or needed. So much love creativity and inspiration at every level of this production. Thank you @numero_netherlands for this amazing opportunity. More images to come! Credits Talent: Laverne Cox laverne Cox Photography & Creative director: Sequoia Emmanuelle @sequoiaemmanuelle Main stylist: Lisa Smith Craig @lscstyling @wemergenetwork Hair: Kiyah Wright @kiyahwright1 Makeup: Tay Rivera @tayriverabeauty DIT: Mariangela Quiroga-Cantillo @mariaqphotography Production design (PD): Alicia Angeles @aliciaangeles Hair assistant: Jose Cortez @joselcortezjr Styling team: Essence Carson @essencecarson & Niquita Tamar @niquitatamar PD assistants: Hanna Nordeen @itshanna_time & Sasha Haralambous @sasha.harala@mbous Studio: F16 Dream Studios @f16dreamstudio Editor: Timi Letonja @timiletonja Editorial director & interview: Jana Letonja @janaletonja Cover design: Arthur Roeloffzen @arthurroeloffzen
I had the honor and great pleasure to work with my long time collaborator @sequoiaemmanuelle on this truly inspired editorial for @numero_netherlands. Sequoia set out the vision and concept. Then Lisa Smith Craig @lscstyling brought forth the pull of LIFE! literally through the fires gurl! Gurl! She Styled the ish out of this shoot with a few pieces from my archive that worked with the vision. Sequoia’s team constructed a beautiful set to help tell the story. Then @tayriverabeauty on makeup and @kiyahwrigh on hair came so hard that they’ve inspired a new beauty era for me that I didn’t realize I wanted or needed. So much love creativity and inspiration at every level of this production. Thank you @numero_netherlands for this amazing opportunity. More images to come! Credits Talent: Laverne Cox laverne Cox Photography & Creative director: Sequoia Emmanuelle @sequoiaemmanuelle Main stylist: Lisa Smith Craig @lscstyling @wemergenetwork Hair: Kiyah Wright @kiyahwright1 Makeup: Tay Rivera @tayriverabeauty DIT: Mariangela Quiroga-Cantillo @mariaqphotography Production design (PD): Alicia Angeles @aliciaangeles Hair assistant: Jose Cortez @joselcortezjr Styling team: Essence Carson @essencecarson & Niquita Tamar @niquitatamar PD assistants: Hanna Nordeen @itshanna_time & Sasha Haralambous @sasha.harala@mbous Studio: F16 Dream Studios @f16dreamstudio Editor: Timi Letonja @timiletonja Editorial director & interview: Jana Letonja @janaletonja Cover design: Arthur Roeloffzen @arthurroeloffzen
One of my favorite moments hosting #LiveFromE, interviewing the inimitable #DenzelWashington about his brilliant performance as Macbeth. My producer was telling me in my ear to cut to commercial and Mr. Washington was encouraging me to continue to recite the famous speech. So I’m talking real fast here because I absolutely had to know how Mr. Washington approached this iconic monologue in such a new, fresh and chilling way. … “It’s is a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
Thanks for sharing this @michellebuteau. This is the person I also aspire to be. But I know I often fall short. I’m distracted or stressed, or preoccupied or just tired and I am not able to take that moment to ask how someone is doing, make them feel seen. We must treasure the special ones like @hodakotb with all the demands on her but she still manages to take those moments to make someone feel seen. It’s a reminder to me that there’s more to aspire to and that I can do better, be better. I might not be able to change the world but I can change myself. I already have. More growth coming in 2025. Here we go!
Here we go. As Chris states here, this is likely to lead to banning trans folks from accessing healthcare, bathrooms, ID documents etc. Let’s re-humanize trans folks and each other regardless of identity. #ProtectTranskids #TransIsBeautiful #TransRightsAreHumanRights @thechrismosier
I feel a certain simpatico with people who collect various things. In this brief video as @joannavargasnyc is serving her triple crown facial, she shares her love of collecting vintage beauty products. We discover that through collecting there’s so much history one can connect with through a vintage product, an object, a piece of vintage clothing. It excites the perpetual student in me. It reminds us that we are connected to a history and there’s so much to learn. My prayer for myself and for you is that we never stop learning, that we remain curious, thirsty to seek out knowledge.
I still feel kind of like a genius suggesting @thealexnewell sing the theme song for our show #CleanSlate currently streaming on @primevideo. Now the lyrics video is available. Come on gurl you know you wanna get the spirit honey, listening to Miss Newell sing the house down boots, sing that gospel honey, that soul!!!. You can’t help but feel good. Don’t you wanna feel good. Alex wails, “We could all use a clean slate.” Amen, Hallelujah! … But seriously I’m a ginormous fame of the truly great, gifted, anointed vocal and interpretive powerhouse that is Tony winner @thealexnewell. We are truly blessed to have Alex’s voice and message as a part of our show. Thank you Alex. I love you so much! The existence of the show is a dream come true. To actually have the blessed voice of Thee Alex Newell sing our theme song, God is truly good…all the time. … Jam out to our song here and on YouTube. Share it. Make some tiktoks gurl. You know what to do.
This tragedy is truly devastating. Here are some resources that might help @groupeffortinitiative
This tragedy is truly devastating. Here are some resources that might help @groupeffortinitiative
This tragedy is truly devastating. Here are some resources that might help @groupeffortinitiative
This tragedy is truly devastating. Here are some resources that might help @groupeffortinitiative
This tragedy is truly devastating. Here are some resources that might help @groupeffortinitiative