Rollacoaster - Ready to Ride Autumn/Winter 2024

Rollacoaster Ready to Ride AW24

“[Institutions are] already educating us to be complacent actors who will do any job they are ‘lucky’ enough to get. It’s the moment that made it all click and made me feel like I was the problem: that I was ugly, unworthy. I realised everything would be for nothing if I entered the industry and became a part of that cycle. Every room I step into now, I make sure that I’m loud. There’s this narrative of, ‘When you get bigger or into a space of power, then you can create change.’ But if that were true, it would have happened already…there are already many Black people in power. However long or short my career is, I will be true to myself every step of the way—and the people that believe in that will find me. That is the place I will be happiest in.”

Breaking onto our screens as Lady Agatha Danbury of Queen Charlotte, our cover star Arsema Thomas now has the world at her feet—and for the 30-year-old actor, she’s set on blazing a new trail. As her latest project, She Taught Love, releases on Hulu, she chats with Francesca Amewudah-Rivers on inciting change within the acting industry, discovering her voice and what her future will hold.

Dafne Keen is set on maintaining the fantasy of film. After a FaceTime with Shawn Levy, she found no better place to do it than on the set of Deadpool & Wolverine. As the blockbuster hits Disney+’s streaming platform, the actor covers our Winter 2024 issue, talking on her reunion with her Logan co-star, Hugh Jackman, returning to Laura and staying sane in the spotlight

From Madeline Argy’s mouth to the nations ears, this “Pretty Lonesome” creator is quickly becoming the voice of a generation. Covering our Winter 2024 issue, Madeline talks on season two, mental health, navigating public opinion, working with Chanel and becoming her most authentic self…and invites us all to tune in.

Madeline wears Chanel Beauty, Chanel Fashion and Chanel Fine Jewellery.

Photography by  Ben Duggan
Styling by Karolina Fre
Interview by Francesca Amewudah-Rivers
Words by Ella West
Editorial Director Charlotte Morton
Editor-in-Chief Ella West
Art Director Bethany Griffiths
Production Director Lola Randall
Hair by Chad Andre
Make-up by Kymberli William

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