Feature - Aubrey Plaza Over the last decade, AUBREY PLAZA has built a loyal fan base from her indie roles. But after the stratospheric success of The White Lotus, is she ready for superstardom?
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f emotional growth is about turning ghosts into ancestors, putting to bed once and for all the relationships or experiences— or TV characters—that haunt you, then Aubrey Plaza may be experiencing a bit of a regression. It’s the middle of January, and the last of the season’s atmospheric rivers is hurling sheets of rain against the windows of the Los Angeles house where Plaza, when she isn’t working nonstop, lives with her husband, writer-director Jeff Baena, and their two dogs. She is wearing red pajamas. She flew in yesterday from Atlanta, where she has been filming Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis, in order to shoot the C Magazine cover story before presenting at the Critics Choice Awards. (Elsewhere in the house, a black sequined Louis Vuitton dress hangs at the ready.) Tomorrow she takes a red-eye to New York to begin rehearsal for hosting Saturday Night Live—a childhood dream
Photography by JACK WATERLOT Fashion Direction by JESSICA PASTER Words by ROB HASKELL 76
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