Molly, Alan, and Max had been friends for years before the August night in 2022 when they launched their new media company. That night their lives changed forever, and to date their videos total over 13.6M views. But this is not an overnight success story. The countdown began on July 30, 2022, when Twitch streamer Max La Due left a blue, orange, and pink number 7 on the end screen after he ended one of his biweekly Twitch streams That same day, YouTuber Molly McCormack posted an Instagram photo wearing a fanny pack that displayed the number 7. Three days later, on August 2, 2022, Alan McCormack, Molly’s husband, posted an Instagram reel of him singing a song by the “imaginary band” 4-Town, emphasis on the 4.
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Professional stunt performer and driver Richard Marrero has been in Marvel films and award-winning TV shows, but sometimes a creative life also means life of uncertainty. This is a story about how he (and his wife Carly) deal with the ups and downs of a life in the entertainment industry, and what kept Richard going […]
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Why head of the hair department for Stranger Things Sarah Hindsgaul moved to another country to tell stories with hair, the rejection that changed her life, and why she followed her gut and risked everything to create the buzz-cut wig for Eleven. The day Season Four of Stranger Things comes out on Netflix (May 27, 2022) I’m unable to watch (aka binge) right away because of plans I’d made long before I knew the release date. The next day, on my way to plans I slightly regret because I wish I was spending all day watching Stranger Things, I reply to an Instagram Story of the only other person I follow who is as obsessed with Stranger Things as I am (her mom is currently watching the series for the first time and provides the best quotes) about her post-binge, spoiler-free thoughts, which I devour. Then I reply, with urgency that surprises even me:“But I just need to know…how is the hair this season??”
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Boardwalk Pictures founder Andrew Fried on leaving what you love and finding your way back again. I walk up to an unassuming brick building on a crisp, sunny, Santa Monica day; I pause in front of the glass double doors before opening them. I see myself reflected: high-waisted jeans, a striped shirt, platform Teva’s, and […]
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What happened when Chef’s Table cinematographer Chloe Weaver finally started saying her career ambitions out loud. Everyone thinks I’m an extra. I’m sitting on a circle couch in a fancy hotel lobby in LA, and most everyone else milling about is dressed for a fictional brunch, extras in a TV show filming in the open dining room just across the lobby. The screen of one camera is just eight feet away from me and I watch the scene through it, zooming in and out on an actor in a colorful 90’s-style jacket. He looks familiar, but I can’t quite place him.
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Disney writer and director John Musker on writing with a collaborator, which feedback to take and which to ignore, and how to keep going when you’re stuck. I almost expect the bunny to start talking to me. I stare as it hops silently into the greenery outside the home of John Musker, the man who brought to life a mouse detective, a blue genie, a frog prince, an ocean voyager, and a little mermaid. I’ve been listening to John’s words since I was three-years old. I walk past the hiding bunny to John’s door, remembering the first time his art affected my life.
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Actor Zach Knighton on the ups and downs of the creative life, and what to do on the “down” days. Think about your favorite TV show of all time. You know the one. It’s that one you watch over and over again – on airplanes, in hotel rooms; you devour it like your favorite food after a rough day or a big life transition. Something about it feels like home. It’s also the show you and your partner (or best friend) quote so much that at some point you realize almost half of everything you say to each other is quotes from this show (and in that exact moment you realize you and this person have the perfect relationship). Now think of your favorite character on that show, the one who brings you the most joy.
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Oscar-winning songwriting team Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Bobby Lopez on finding their dreams and what’s even better than winning an Oscar. Today I saw the movie CoCo for the first time (spoiler alert: I cried 17 times). Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Bobby Lopez wrote the Golden-Globe and Oscar-nominated title song, “Remember Me,” for the Disney Pixar film, and I couldn’t help but smile as I watched the Golden Globes recently and caught a glimpse of them sitting in their finest at a round table with other artists I love (like the director and writer of Frozen. A few months ago I sat at a square table on my porch in San Diego, California, phone in hand, about to call Kristen and Bobby.
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Oscar-winning makeup artist Dave Elsey on what to do when no one will hire you for your dream job. I wish you could hear Dave Elsey’s voice. It’s all kindness and wonder, wrapped up in an accent that makes me long for the two weeks I spent across England in my third year of college, climbing up moors with sheep everywhere, eating jacket potatoes in places called the “Red Lion,” and trying chana masala for the first time in London. Also there was the Monet room, which I stumbled upon while lost, roaming the giant halls of the National Gallery in London, the art museum guarded by giant bronze Lions in Trafalgar Square. I stood in the exact center of the Monet room, equidistant from each painting, and slowly walked closer until my breath touched the paint.
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