VF's June cover features a face new to the small screen—Abel Tesfaye, better known as The Weeknd, is the biggest pop star in the world, though he wears that mantle without ceremony.
As much as summer has been the season for blockbuster movies, it’s also now the season for blockbuster TV. Our June cover features a face new to the small screen but hardly to entertainment—on the contrary, Abel Tesfaye, better known as The Weeknd, is the biggest pop star in the world, though he wears that mantle without ceremony. The way he puts it, success has been a natural progression: “My music was very cult-y in the beginning.
Fresh off the portrait studio at the Oscar party, Mark Seliger photographed Tesfaye at his Bel-Air estate, where scenes ofwere also filmed. If the superstar at home can feel like too easy a visual idiom, here it communicates something essential about Tesfaye—the distance between the man and the alter ego, and the illusions of fame we tend to project onto the famous.is getting the red-carpet treatment, others in TV land are a little more anxious about how this year will go.
Will there still be exceptional TV? Yes! It’s happening all around us, and you can see its stars throughout the pages of our special awards section. As disruptive as the original ascent of streaming was, we’re now entering Hollywood’s next chapter and the further evolution of our own tastes and preferences. But talent always rises to the top, and the shows and actors we highlight here are proof.
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