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Kevin Hart’s Favorite Watch Is Also Small but Mighty

Kevin Hart’s Favorite Watch Is Also Small but Mighty

Published by Jenni Sidey

This is an edition of the newsletter Box + Papers, Cam Wolf’s weekly deep dive into the world of watches. Sign up here. Kevin Hart likes watches he can relate to. “Small in stature, but big in ability, big in cadence, big in personality,” says the comedian and actor, whose collection includes more than 250 timepieces. And as far as Hart is concerned, the watch that best captures those qualities is Patek Philippe’s groundbreaking reference 5004—a watch so significant to him, he owns three versions. “It’s a treat for me when I choose to wear it,” says Hart, who’s sported the 5004 everywhere from the BET Awards to The Tonight Show. Hart has rarer and flashier watches in his arsenal, but his abiding love for the 5004 is proof of his nerd-level reverence for horological history. Like so many collectors blessed with the income to support their obsession, Hart started slow—treating himself to a watch to celebrate a new movie or stand-up special—but found himself pulled ever deeper, eventually chasing rarities from hallowed brands like …

‘The Vampire Lestat’ Turns It All the Way Up

‘The Vampire Lestat’ Turns It All the Way Up

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“It’s the best, but it’s full-on,” says Anderson. “You don’t really get a lot of rest. And it’s dense writing, so you’re putting your whole body and brain into it.” “We’re all hyperaware that it’s a dream job,” Reid adds. “You get to do everything that you could possibly ever want to do as an actor in one single show. It’s quite stressful with how fast we move and how much they want to do, but if you don’t pinch yourself every day and go, ‘Wow, how fun is this?’ then you’re wasting your time.” The original Vampire Chronicles novels by Anne Rice have sold over 80 million copies, while the iconic 1994 film starring Hollywood juggernauts Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt grossed more than $200 million worldwide. The AMC TV show had, as showrunner and producer Rolin Jones tells it, much to live up to: “It was a remake of that thing from the ’90s, and the expectations are low.” And yet his Interview With the Vampire exists entirely outside the formidable shadows of …

The Real-Life Wardrobe of Eddie Huang, Who’s Been Watching Knicks Games With a Weighted Vest On

The Real-Life Wardrobe of Eddie Huang, Who’s Been Watching Knicks Games With a Weighted Vest On

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Eddie Huang is many things: author, chef, restaurateur, filmmaker, media personality. The list goes on, and Huang wouldn’t have it any other way. Born in Virginia to Taiwanese-Chinese parents, Huang opened his first restaurant, Baohaus, a cult-favorite Taiwanese bun shop, on New York City’s Lower East Side in 2009, later moving the shop to the East Village, where it remained until its pandemic-era closure in October 2020. Between then and now, Huang published two books, directed two films, and got married and started a family. Nowadays, he’s got plenty more on his plate: a Substack, a podcast (which he co-hosts with his wife, Natashia Perrotti), and his first novel, Come Undone, which hits shelves on June 16. He’s currently (superstitiously) rooting on his beloved New York Knicks in the finals. Oh, and just reopened Baohaus this past March, which is where he and I met up in late May. Huang didn’t expect to bring the restaurant back, but when he received a call—over the speakerphone in his car—from his trademark attorney asking him if he …

Inside the Making of ‘The Odyssey’—With Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, and Christopher Nolan

Inside the Making of ‘The Odyssey’—With Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, and Christopher Nolan

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He also knew, early on, precisely how he wanted to shoot the film. For The Odyssey, Nolan asked IMAX to design a camera that could capture not just big sweeping shots but intimate scenes of dialogue, something that was previously thought to be impossible, due to how loud IMAX cameras are. At Nolan’s behest, IMAX devised a kind of blimp covering to get the effect he wanted while still allowing the actors to hear themselves over the sound of the camera. And then, because the covering often blocked the actor’s eyeline, Nolan himself improvised a workaround, a system of mirrors that would allow a second actor’s face to be projected just left of his lens. “Chris doesn’t fake anything,” Holland told me. “Everything’s real. Everything you’re reacting to is what he wants your visceral human response to.” Pattinson once had to shoot a scene in The Odyssey responding to a far-off sound. “I can’t see anything, apart from the camera,” he recounted, “and I was just asking Chris, because I’m supposed to react to this …

Christian Pulisic: ‘It’s Just Another Big Tournament’

Christian Pulisic: ‘It’s Just Another Big Tournament’

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It is only 20 days before kickoff at the 2026 FIFA World Cup—confidently projected to be the most-watched sporting event ever televised, and one already being hyped by President Trump as both the “greatest and safest sporting event in American history” and “a once in a lifetime opportunity to showcase the beauty and the greatness of America”—but Christian Pulisic is, at least on the face of things, feeling quite relaxed. “I get texts from my family and close friends—they’re definitely all excited about it, for sure,” Pulisic says, hanging out in sweats after practice for his Italian club team, AC Milan. “I mean, I feel like I’m constantly playing in big games. For me personally, it’s not like all that much is changing. It’s just another big tournament, to be honest.” Even for a guy as low-key as Pulisic, that’s a surprising statement. Playing in the first men’s World Cup on home soil in 32 years (okay, cohosted with Mexico and Canada, but still) would be a pinch-me moment for any US player. For Pulisic, …

How 3 GQ Editors Are Wearing Todd Snyder This Summer

How 3 GQ Editors Are Wearing Todd Snyder This Summer

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Tasked with drawing up a list of the most influential designers isn’t so easy. We could narrow it down to a tight 10…maybe. But if you grab a cork board and some red string like an amateur detective, you could start to piece together enough evidence to make a case for Todd Snyder as one of the designers deserving of such a prestigious position. Whether you’re aware of it or not, Snyder’s been behind some of menswear’s most memorable epochs. The industry vet has a CV longer than some Wikipedia pages and a design portfolio that would require an extension wing to even the largest walk-in closet. Though his signature touch is instantly recognizable, there are infinite ways to wear his clothes. So we had a few of GQ’s very own go on a field day to show you exactly how we wear Todd Snyder. Gerald Ortiz, Commerce Writer A large part of my early journey into menswear was informed by classic tailoring. I didn’t know it at the time, but much of that was …

The Real-Life Wardrobe of Sage Elsesser, Whose First Fashion Icon Was Bruce Lee

The Real-Life Wardrobe of Sage Elsesser, Whose First Fashion Icon Was Bruce Lee

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Sage Elsesser, the rapper, producer, skater, and model, has lived a lot of life for someone under 30. He experienced a meteoric rise at a young age, first making his mark skating in the viral 2014 Supreme film “Cherry.” A year later, he started releasing music under the moniker Navy Blue, initially hoping to keep his identity under wraps. He’s produced beats for some of the biggest names in the underground rap scene, like Mach-Hommy, Earl Sweatshirt, and Armand Hammer. He’s since released six proper studio albums of his own, and he’s got a brilliant seventh on the way, Sir Render, that’s due out June 5. “My upbringing was beautiful,” says Elsesser, 29, after I ask him about his childhood. “I feel really lucky to have had the kind of parents that I had. Very loving, supportive, free, and critical thinkers.” He grew up in Mid City in Los Angeles with three sisters (including supermodel Paloma) and an older brother who died when Sage was a child, a tragedy he says shaped his spirituality growing …

Zohran Mamdani on Celebrating Arsenal’s Title and Making the World Cup Affordable

Zohran Mamdani on Celebrating Arsenal’s Title and Making the World Cup Affordable

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Arsenal chose Zohran Mamdani at around the turn of the century, when, aged 10, his uncle bought him a set of fridge magnets bearing images of some of the team’s leading players—Sylvain Wiltord, David Seaman, Sol Campbell, Thierry Henry. He was captivated. When we spoke, it felt only right to find out which footballers lived longest in his imagination, and so I asked for his dream Arsenal XI. He went for David Raya in goal, plus Gabriel and William Saliba as the centre backs, for whom he had “a real soft spot”. And, “for nostalgia’s sake,” Gaël Clichy and Bacary Sagna as full-backs. “OK,” said Mamdani. He was pensive now, gathering his composure as he came to select the team’s midfield and forward positions. “This is now difficult.” In central midfield, he chose Cesc Fàbregas and Patrick Vieira, the France World Cup winner who would smear Vicks VapoRub over his shirt to assist his breathing when he was tired: a tactic which Mamdani had emulated in his own playing days, but apparently to little effect. …

Marlon Wayans Says Other People Taking Over the ‘Scary Movie’ Franchise Was Like ‘Watching Your Child Become a Crackhead’

Marlon Wayans Says Other People Taking Over the ‘Scary Movie’ Franchise Was Like ‘Watching Your Child Become a Crackhead’

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You’ve also taken that trauma toward your standup, which is more and more personal every year. You’re now touring a special about one of your kids, who transitioned. Yeah. But it’s not their transition. It was my transition going from denial to acceptance and the five stages of grief that I went through in order to get there. See, it doesn’t sound like a comedy. It doesn’t. But I put dramatic structure under my comedies because as a writer, that’s what I’ve learned from writing. Every comedy I write has some kind of dramatic structure. So you have that dramatic structure and for me, that’s the heart and it’s like a great sitcom. In every great sitcom, 22 minutes long, there’s like a minute of heart. In every great special, I try to go, I need two minutes of heart. Every time I work it, I find something new. I recently had Dave Chappelle come and he saw it when I was in Dayton. He goes, “Man, man, it’s powerful. It’s powerful, man.” And he’s …

The 8 Best New Summer Shoes for Setting Your Dogs Free

The 8 Best New Summer Shoes for Setting Your Dogs Free

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When men think about their feet, it’s rarely in neutral terms. Opinions can range from coy avoidance, outright disgust, or, occasionally, something approximating pride, but not quite. These insecurities can go unaddressed for a lifetime—leading, presumably, to a higher rate of toenail fungus compared to women, but also, perhaps more tragically, a dearth of embracing fun, toe-forward footwear. And yet, last summer there was no escaping the mandal. With a revival of vintage styles, it felt only logical that the oldest shoe silhouette in recorded history made a comeback too. On the first night of Paris Fashion Week, GQ’s own Samuel Hine spotted 43 pairs of Havaianas-like sandals at three runway shows. (The Brazilian brand’s parent company, Alpargatas, saw a whopping 429 percent increase in annual net profit in 2025.) Soon, the sandal revolution hit the celebrities: Jonathan Bailey bared toe in a pair of The Row flops at a London photo call for Jurassic World Rebirth; Bad Bunny, before his Tonight Show performance, stepped into a brutal New York City winter barely protected by …