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SIMONE ASHLEY When Simone Ashley received the script for the second season of Netflix’s Bridgerton, she was wrapping the final episodes of the comedy-drama series Sex Education in London. On the verge of being a “technically unemployed actress again,” Ashley, a native of Surrey, England, landed the lead role of Bridgerton’s Kate Sharma. Ashley describes Kate as an “independent, competitive rule breaker, who comes across as quite strong and brave and has that fighting exterior, but she is also incredibly vulnerable.” (“Kate is also really witty and I’m not really like that—I’m not sassy or cool enough,” she adds.) Ashley says she developed “really, really great chemistry” with costar Jonathan Bailey, who plays her love interest, Anthony Bridgerton. “Kate really puts her family first,” Ashley teases of the new season. “When the stakes of love come with family as well—it’s very different.”—ARIANA YAPTANGCO Scarf (worn as top), $148, skirt, $268, Polo Ralph Lauren.



DEMI SINGLETON & SANIYYA SIDNEY Like your average teenagers, Demi Singleton and Saniyya Sidney are prone to giggling fits, especially when someone brings up the name of their King Richard costar Will Smith. “Every time you were with him, it was just jokes upon jokes,” says Singleton, who plays the young tennis legend Serena Williams in the highly anticipated biopic. “You’d laugh until you almost wet yourself.” But when it came time to step up to the net, the girls knew to get serious. “There were times when it was hard, and I cried and was sore and in pain, but it was definitely for a great reason,” says Sidney, who plays Venus Williams. The story follows Richard Williams, portrayed by Smith, as he paves the way for his daughters’ groundbreaking tennis careers. Singleton and Sidney studied videos of the Williams sisters’ games to ensure their styles matched the real thing. “Both of us now know how to play just like them—” Sidney begins, before Singleton interrupts: “No, no. We now know how to look like we play like them.” —LAUREN PUCKETT-POPE From left, on Singleton: Overalls, Isabel Marant, $935. Bracelet, Tiffany & Co., $5,400. On Sidney: Jumpsuit, Chanel, $4,500. Bracelet, Tiffany & Co., $7,900. Her own ring. Boots, Labucq, $490. Stylist’s own tops.

DIANA S ILVERS The elite ballerina whom Diana Silvers plays in this fall’s Birds of Paradise doesn’t stray too far from her personal frame of reference. “I was a very competitive tennis player, and I think [director Sarah Adina Smith] really tapped into my nature when it comes to sports,” she says. The movie, which was filmed in Hungary, paired Silvers once again with a female film director, an exciting development for the actress, whose breakout role in 2019’s Booksmart was directed by Olivia Wilde. “I want to break into directing at some point,” says Silvers, 23, who has written a short film she hopes to make one day. “It’s really inspiring to be around women who are doing that because it shows you, ‘Hey, it’s possible.’ ” Silvers, who began working as a model while a student at New York University, was recently chosen to serve as “une fille Celine.” The partnership is an ideal fit for her easygoing aesthetic, she says. “I never would have expected anyone to want anything to do with me in the fashion world—I was so taken aback and honored.” —ADRIENNE GAFFNEY Top, $2,450, jeans, $690, Celine by Hedi Slimane.



ASHLEY: MAKEUP BY ALEX BABSKY FOR DIOR BEAUTY; HAIR BY PATRICK WILSON FOR ORIBE; MANICURE BY MICHELLE CLASS FOR DIOR VERNIS; PHOTOGRAPHED O N LO CAT I O N AT T H E R I T Z LO N D O N . SINGLETON: HAIR BY VERNON FRANÇOIS FOR REDKEN; MAKEUP BY NICK BAROSE FOR GIORGIO ARMANI BEAUT Y. SIDNEY: HAIR BY PATRICIA TINSON FOR ITALENT COMPANY; MAKEUP BY TASHA REIKO BROWN FOR CHANEL. SILVERS: HAIR BY SAMI KNIGHT FOR R+CO; MAKEUP BY NINA PARK FOR CHANEL BEAUTY. JONES: HAIR BY MARA ROSZAK FOR RŌZ; MAKEUP BY GEORGIE EISDELL AT THE WALL GROUP. INGRAM: HAIR BY AMBER SHANI HAMILTON; MAKEUP BY REBEKAH ALADDIN FOR DIOR BEAUTY. GRACE: HAIR BY JOHN D AT FORWARD ARTISTS; MAKEUP BY DENIKA B E D R O S S I A N AT A- F R A M E A G E N C Y. ASHLEY PRODUCED BY BOB FORD; ALL OTHERS PRODUCED BY JONATHAN BOSSLE AT TIGHTROPE PRODUCTION. EMILIA JONES The opening scene of CODA shows Emilia Jones on a fishing boat belting out Etta James at the top of her lungs. Her voice is powerful yet angelic, but no one aboard can hear her. The film follows Jones as Ruby, the sole hearing member of a deaf family (or CODA, a child of deaf adults), who’s taking vocal lessons after school and dreams of attending Boston’s Berklee College of Music. To prepare for the role, the English actress trained for nine months with an American Sign Language teacher, immersed herself in deaf culture, and practiced singing on her days off from filming Netflix’s Locke & Key. “To be deaf is so much more than sign language— it’s an experience that no hearing person can ever fully understand,” she says. “That’s what I love about acting: You can play different characters, go to places you would never normally go, and meet people that you wouldn’t normally meet.”—CLAIRE STERN Sweater, pants, Louis Vuitton. Ring, Cartier, $3,450.



MOSES INGRAM Moses Ingram is tired—”but it’s the kind of tired I’ve always wanted to be,” says the 27- year-old Baltimore native. She was still in Berlin filming The Queen’s Gambit when she found out she’d booked the role of Lady Macduff in one of this year’s most-anticipated films, The Tragedy of Macbeth. The Queen’s Gambit was her first major job after graduating from the Yale School of Drama, playing the candid-but-caring orphan Jolene—a role for which she received an Emmy nomination: “I couldn’t believe what I was hearing,” she says. “I just got really close to the floor, because I guess I needed some stability.” She was also shocked to find out she’d be performing alongside Frances McDormand and Denzel Washington in Macbeth. “At this point in my career, the fact that they thought I was worthy enough to be in the same room with them was crazy. You don’t want to be the weak link in the chain, so you just rise to the occasion, and jump in.”—MADISON FELLER Dress, Gucci, $6,800. Hoop earrings, ring, $3,450, Cartier.





LESLIE GRACE New York keeps calling Leslie Grace back. The 26-year-old Bronx-born actress and three- time Latin Grammy nominee was a natural to play Nina in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s big-screen version of In the Heights. “I’m very much like Nina, attached to my block, family, community, and to where I feel supported— where I can be myself,” she says. “But at some point you have to venture out into the world and share your gifts in spaces that might not be as comfortable as how you feel when you’re at home.” For her next act, Grace is stepping even further outside her comfort zone—and into an entirely new Gotham—as Barbara Gordon in Warner Bros. Pictures’ forthcoming Batgirl. It’s a steep learning curve for someone who didn’t grow up reading comics, but in a way it feels like fate. “My best friend and I called each other Batman and Robin growing up,” she says. “When she found out I got [the part], she was like, ‘All this time, we’ve been manifesting this!’ ”—ROSE MINUTAGLIO Top, $1,850, trousers, $1,390, boots, $2,295, Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello. Ring, Tiffany & Co., $5,200. For details, see Shopping Guide.

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THE BILLION- Holiday Inn, he Googled “kill someone Murray back, crying uncontrollably. prayer”; one day later, he searched “guy Murray dropped to his knees and began DOLLAR QUESTION blows brains out shotgun.” He told one screaming. Megan reached Paczesny at friend everyone was against him. On the nursery school where she taught—it CONTINUED FROM PAGE 95 May 30, Aposhian drove with him and was her first day back post-quarantine. another person to Fargo; at one point, “Please tell me you’re lying,” Paczesny with a hand grabbing her throat. Once in Torres opened the center console to re- said. “I am in front of my students.” the Air Force, Torres often posted pho- veal a small pistol, apparently to show tos of himself with guns. He was in se- off. This was around when Aposhian told Aposhian’s funeral was held on June curity forces, which enabled him, unlike Paczesny and her parents she feared he 11, in Chandler, Arizona, with military most military members, to carry a gun would kill her. They told her to report it, honors. At the standing-room-only ser- on base (though not in the barracks), but “she acted like, ‘Oh, I’ll take care of vice, there was a gun salute and taps. but he soon decided he wanted his own it,’ ” Megan says. She didn’t know how Against the strict protocol of these rit- handgun. The minimum age to buy one a report would be received. Aposhian uals, the event that precipitated them in North Dakota is 21 and he was 20, so wasn’t the only person who didn’t report seemed senseless enough to warp space. he pestered another airman until she him. After his death, per the Air Force, In the months that followed, Murray agreed to purchase it. After Aposhian’s another woman alleged he sexually as- channeled his energy into accountability. death, the airman was charged in federal saulted her while in military tech school. How had Torres been able to enlist? How court with the unlawful purchase/trans- had a gun gotten into the barracks? The fer of aweapon—a Glock model 22C pis- Early on the night of May 31, Apo- problems seemed both broader and more tol that cost about $500. Those charges shian and Rodrigues FaceTimed and specific than what would be addressed were dismissed in favor of a court-mar- drank Trulys, a hard seltzer they loved. by the annual defense bill, though he be- tial, where, in April, she pleaded guilty “She said she needed her girlfriend,” lieved it was a good start. Meanwhile, at and was given a bad conduct discharge Rodrigues says. It was a balmy evening, the Grand Forks base, there were few and sentenced to 100 days’ imprison- with a mild breeze. Later, Aposhian substantial changes. ment. She read a statement through and Torres drove into Grand Forks to tears. “I never believed [Torres] would buy a bottle of Jack Daniel’s Tennessee MurrayandMeganagreedsomething hurt himself or anyone else,” she said. “I Honey, then went to his room. They was deeply wrong—their daughter had thought it was a favor to a friend.” didn’t drink much. Mostly, they argued. been killed in a place she was supposed to “I’m assuming she went over to tell him be safe. Megan, however, doesn’t neces- ONCE APOSHIAN ARRIVED in Grand Forks she wasn’t committed,” Paczesny says. sarily consider the military at fault. “This in April, she had to quarantine for two “Because that’s what got them into the could happen anywhere,” she says. She weeks. She met Torres not long after. By fight.” Around 2 a.m., he threw a bottle made shrines to her daughter throughout mid-May, he was saying he loved her. at Aposhian, which shattered, cutting her. her house. She built a memorial in her A few days later, they checked into a She went outside to her car and called backyard, with a fountain and an angel Holiday Inn for the weekend—Aposhian a friend on base, then went back to his statue. She got a tattoo of Natasha’s face, arrived to find rose petals strewn on the room. Just before 4 a.m., Aposhian began her ashes mixed into the ink. “It hurts bed and a bathtub filled with bubbles. filming the first of two videos, which span so bad,” she texted Aposhian’s friend “It was every girl’s dream,” Paczesny most of the final 22 minutes of her life. Gallardo. “This pain is so bad.” says. Rodrigues had asked Aposhian to You can’t see much, but you hear as she FaceTime her so she could vet Torres, requests, multiple times, that he return For a while, because of their dif- and after their call, “I was like, ‘Wow, her keys, which he’d taken. She stayed ferences, Megan and Murray stopped he’s a good catch,’ ” she says. But the next calm, even as she asked if he was going communicating. At the funeral, though, evening, after Torres invited friends to to kill her. Finally, he asked her to pick Murray spoke about how, when he and their room and Aposhian and another heads or tails. She didn’t respond; then Megan met, one of the first things he no- girl discussed dressing up and going out, there’s the sound of a coin hitting a table. ticed about her family was how often Torres became so enraged he punched a When asked what that meant, he said, they expressed love. “Going to get cig- cabinet. Aposhian told Rodrigues it was “You don’t wanna know.” Moments lat- arettes, beer, whatever,” he said. “I love like he’d changed overnight. er, as she ran from the room, he shot her. my family, too. But to say that every time we’re going to get toilet paper?” People Aposhian briefly broke it off. But “it’s ALMOSTEXACTLY23YEARS before Aposhian laughed, and he paused. “Okay, but let me not like you can just brush off your feel- landed in Grand Forks, the Red River, tell you, after a while, it became common- ings,” Rodrigues says. “She cared for him.” swollen with snowmelt, rose up past its place for me to say that, too.” Years earlier, Plus, they shared friends, and because of banks, then the dikes meant to contain it, Megan recorded Aposhian reading her pandemic-related scheduling chang- then the hastily assembled piles of sand- college essay over the phone—the one in es, she had little to do. When Paczesny bags, in what was known as the flood of which she discussed being biracial—and would tell Aposhian to stay away from the century. News of Aposhian’s murder the conversation ended just this way, him, “she’d say, ‘Am I just supposed to traveled like the water that day—fast, with this echo of love. Parris, her half sis- stay in my dorm and do nothing?’ ” devastating, inexorable. ter, in the background with her son, says to tell Aposhian they love her. “Aww, I Once they started seeing each other Murray was driving to get breakfast love them, too,” Aposhian says. “Okay, I again, she tried to keep things more ca- at McDonald’s when his mom called to love you, Tasha, good night,” her mom sual, but Torres found this unacceptable. say the news had reported a shooting at says. “Love you,” she replies. One night, Aposhian was talking to a guy the Grand Forks base. When he couldn’t at a bonfire when Torres called. He said contact Aposhian, he called Megan. She “The last FaceTime I had with my if he saw her with another man, he would reached out to Aposhian’s friend on daughter, the last thing she said to me kill them both, then himself. base, who broke the news. Megan called was ‘I love you, Dad,’ ” Murray said at the funeral. “I said, ‘I love you, kiddo.’ That During Torres’s final days, he spiraled fills me with happiness.” ▪ downward. On May 23, the same night he had the fight with Aposhian at the 149

Horoscope Madeira citrine cuff, AQUARIUS TAURUS LEO COURTESY OF THE DESIGNER. David Webb, davidwebb.com JAN 20–FEB 18 APR 20–MAY 20 JULY 23–AUG 22 SCORPIO November’s planetary pileup The pursuit of partnerships Get your lion’s den hygge-ready. in Scorpio helps you to be dominates November’s agenda, Family bonding will be rich and OCT 23–NOV 21 mission-driven. Your career could but don’t overlook a diamond deep near the new moon on the hit a new stride near the new in the rough. If there’s potential, 4th, but agitator Mars’s candor It’s Scorpio season until the moon on the 4th. By setting you could help them polish may force you to acknowledge 21st—and you’ve set the bar mini-goals within the grander their skills, appearance, or a relative’s disruptive influence. high. Venus embarks on a ones, you can pivot as you go. whatever’s amiss. Loyal people Venus in Capricorn boosts your four-month journey through Try that with your love life, since who have your back, front, and resolve, helping you detach from Capricorn on the 5th, turning even your most passionate sides will be more important their drama. The eclipse on the your creative lens to new maneuvers can’t make people than ever to keep around. 19th electrifies career goals. vistas. The lunar eclipse on the ready until they’re ready. Be a strategic renegade and 19th could bring a romantic GEMINI go after what you deserve! breakthrough the likes of which PISCES you haven’t seen in a decade! MAY 21–JUNE 21 VIRGO FEB 19–MAR 20 SAGITTARIUS To resist seasonal cravings, tap AUG 23–SEPT 22 The key to success this month: into the power of the Sun and NOV 22–DEC 21 Accept that there’s no one right motivator Mars in your wellness The new moon on the 4th puts answer to anything. A planetary zone. The Scorpio new moon on friendships through a stress test. The Sun and Mars put muscle posse in your expansive ninth the 4th may inspire you to start Who will be there for you when in your hustle, lightening real or house opens up a kaleidoscopic a new program that includes anxiety flares or you need an imagined economic woes. Don’t perspective. When the Taurus soothing foods and indoor analytical sounding board? No panic! Creative moneymaking lunar eclipse arrives on the 19th, workouts. And toxic influences, good candidates? Consider that opportunities flow in as Venus your studies could crystallize like energy vampires, could a cue to expand your circle. enters Capricorn and your into something that makes vaporize near the lunar eclipse Romance spikes on the 5th as financial zone on the 5th. your heart sing—along with on the 19th. Good riddance! Venus pulls into your passion zone. On the 19th, a lunar eclipse everyone else’s around you! Longing for “the one that got away” in Taurus spotlights work- CANCER or ready to level up a situationship? life imbalances. Adjust your ARIES Be proactive and make it so! lifestyle accordingly to keep JUNE 22–JULY 22 relationships on an even keel. MAR 21–APR 19 LIBRA Good luck trying to dodge CAPRICORN In love, hot-blooded Rams Cupid this cuffing season! SEPT 23–OCT 22 need eye candy and soul food. On the 5th, ardent Venus DEC 22–JAN 19 Near the Scorpio new moon kicks off a four-month tour Convivial Venus (your ruler) parks on the 4th, you could meet of your relationship sector. in Capricorn for four months on the Set your dial to #minxmode someone who fits the bill. At You rarely play for anything 5th, turning your focus to home and when Venus begins an extended work, keep your head in the but keeps, so if you find (or family. You can ease conflicts and trip through Capricorn on the game, dotting every i. With have) a good one, pour your make progress toward restoring 5th. Modest as your sign is, a lunar eclipse rocking your energy into that pairing. harmony—if you’re clear on your this attention-getting transit money zone on the 19th, you’ll Friendships, on the other values and accept that others see nudges you to get your name need routines (not luck) to hand, could hit a speed bump the world differently. The new out there, especially around the keep things running smoothly. near the eclipse on the 19th. moon on the 4th brings exciting fame-fueling lunar eclipse on career news. And the scintillating the 19th. With planets pooling developments around the lunar in your teamwork zone, tap eclipse on the 19th could affect your network for support. your bottom line—and your love life! This opens up time for what Venus really wants you to By the AstroTwins, focus on: love, sweet love. Tali and Ophira Edut 150