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Bill Skarsgård Likes It Darker

He transformed himself into a terrifying clown in It and a ruthless villain in John Wick. But he goes deeper for The Crow this summer and Nosferatu in December. Is the thirty-three-year-old actor—who doesn’t even enjoy seeing scary movies—Hollywood’s new dark prince?

By Madison Vain and Photographs by Norman Jean Roy and Styling by Bill Mullen
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For first-time writers, it’s harder than ever to break out. That poses an existential crisis for publishing—and disturbing limits on your access to exciting new voices.

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My son and I bleed the same color, but I’m Penobscot and he’s not. That’s because of blood quantum, a legal measure that affects our political and social rights. But there’s another way to live—and another way to understand our identity.

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