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The 12 Most-Read Interview Stories of 2022
After 12 exhausting months, 2022 is finally coming to an end. As bleak as the year often felt, from geopolitical crises to the rollback of reproductive rights here in the States, it wasn’t all doom and gloom. There were butts, too, namely Kim Kardashian’s, as seen in a jockstrap on our September 2022 cover. So, before ringing in the new year, we wanted to take a look back at our most popular stories of the year, as determined by Interview readers.
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Kim Kardashian Bares All
Photographed by Nadia Lee Cohen and styled by Mel Ottenberg.
OTTENBERG: Okay Kim, I’m curious. You were always like, “For a girl with no talent, I’ve come really far.” Let’s get it on the record. What is your talent?
KARDASHIAN: Yeah, people used to say that and I’m like, “Do I need to be a fucking circus animal?”
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Date Night
Photographed by Kevin Leyva.
“I met Ye in Miami on New Year’s Eve and it was an instant connection,” wrote Julia Fox in a dispatch from her short-lived romance with Kanye West, who was touting antisemitic conspiracies just a few months later.
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Donald Glover Interviews Donald Glover
Photographed by Tyler Mitchell and styled by Yohana Lebasi.
“I guess I don’t love interviews and I asked myself, “Why don’t you like interviews?” And I think part of it is that the questions are usually the same. This way I can get questions I usually don’t get asked.”
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Nicki Minaj, in Conversation With Jada Pinkett Smith
Photographed by Torso and styled by Dara.
“Well, I would just like to say, and this could be on or off the record—I would prefer it to be on the record—that dreams come true. I told you when I was in high school, all my friends stopped in the middle of the street and laughed at me for saying that I was going to give your husband my number for you to call me, and I said I know if Jada saw me, she was going to put me in one of her movies. [Laughs]”
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Chloe Cherry Is Euphoria’s Sweetest New It-Girl
Photography by Adam Gardner.
INTERVIEW: Have you seen the videos on TikTok of people trying to make their lips look like yours?
CHERRY: I have. I think it’s funny.
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Angus Cloud and Chase Sui Wonders On Skateboarding, Cartoons, and Celebrity
Photographed by Daniel Arnold and styled by Michael Darlington.
SUI WONDERS: Have you ever skated at Tompkins [Square Park] in New York?
CLOUD: Yeah, a couple times.
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Olivia Wilde Needs to Be in Charge
Photographed by Theo Liu and styled by Harry Lambert.
“I love the fact that, depending on who you cast, it’s a completely different movie. It’s like, I know what the movie is, but until the actors start acting, I don’t really know what it is because their part in it is going to completely shift the energy, and the chemistry between them will change everything.”
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Nikki Glaser Lets It All Out
Image Courtesy of Nikki Glaser for Interview.
INTERVIEW: What’s your dream job?
GLASER: Popstar.
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Johnny Knoxville and Rachel Wolfson on Stunts, School, and Stuff Up Your Butt
Photos Courtesy Rachel Wolfson.
KNOXVILLE: Right. So, what did your parents think about you being in Jackass?
WOLFSON: Initially, they were very concerned. I mean, their view of Jackass is you know, you guys hurting yourselves and sticking stuff up your butt.
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Anne Hathaway Answers 20 Questions From Her Friends and Fans
Photographed by Collier Schorr and styled by Dara.
MICHAEL KORS: Which outfit that you wore in The Devil Wears Prada was more Anne than Andy?
HATHAWAY: Michael Kors and I used to live in the same building. We had the most fun lobby in New York at the time. But it’s a chicken-and-egg question, because what I think of as my style is so influenced by getting to work with Patricia Field and having conversations with her about how to put outfits together. But I love what I wore to the James Hoult party, that velvet Chanel coat that went to the knees, and then the miniskirt and the stockings and the slouched boots. I think it was a sample because I kept finding straight pins in it.
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Brendan Fraser and Freddie Prinze Jr. on Trauma and Transformation
Photographed by Daniel Arnold and styled by Thom Bettridge.
FRASER: Is it because we want to disappear, Freddie?
PRINZE: That’s what a psychiatrist told me. [Laughs]
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Alexander Skarsgård Talks to Kirsten Dunst About the Pleasure and the Pain
Photographed by Juergen Teller and styled by Harry Lambert.
“My grandma was like that, my favorite human being. She didn’t give a fuck about what people thought about her. She would say anything. Until her dying day, she had this incredible curiosity. She wanted to learn, try new things, meet new people, and not just wither away.”
