dear readers A
s the hot summer days are upon us, I am delighted to introduce our fourteenth issue which pre-celebrates the publication’s three year anniversary. Grumpy Magazine has been a project that remains very dear to my heart and if you feel how much I care about this magazine, then I will be fulfilled. I still have that whiteboard in my room with my notes and ideas for the very first issue I was planning on putting out in 2016, when I didn’t really know what kind of adventure I was throwing myself into. Let me tell you that nothing turned out the way I imagined, but the unexpected events are often the most surprising and rewarding.
Illustration by Eléa Weibel
Back when I was 18, I decided to move from my small hometown to Paris to start my new life as a student, leaving my family behind and preparing myself to face an unknown world. Today as I am writing this editor’s letter, I am officially graduated and couldn’t be more grateful for the last three years I have lived and all the people I have met along the way, which despite all the positive sides hasn’t been easy to handle both on a personal and professional point of view. I was attending class during the day, and then had to stay up late to work on diverse projects for the magazine which are the reasons why it became what it is today. Running a publication on your own is challenging, even more when you have to deal with the time difference. I shifted directions multiple times, made mistakes and questioned myself a lot, but at the end of the day it was so worth it. I learned to follow my gut, go out of my comfort zone and have more faith in me to dare taking risks to build myself up. Even if it doesn’t mean succeeding every time, that is fine because you grow as a person. Thus for our cover stories, I am beyond thrilled to feature four game-changing voices who trusted their instincts to reach their goals — Marie Avgeropoulos who has blown our minds away since 2014 with her portrayal of female warrior Octavia Blake on post-apocalyptic show The 100, Tony Revolori who, following his breakout role in Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel, kept taking his career in his own hands and can currently be seen in Spider-Man: Far From Home, Imposters’ actress and Lucifer’s newcomer Inbar Lavi who moved from Israel to America to make her dreams come true, and Laura and Vanessa Marano who are one of the pairs of sibling actors in Hollywood who joined their forces to carry a powerful storyline in their upcoming movie Saving Zoë. In this edition, I was able to check off a lot of names that inspired me to keep pushing forward and to work with people I have dreamt to connect with before even starting the magazine. Thank you for trusting me and giving a 21-year-old the tools and opportunities to keep driving through her dreams. Also a massive thank you to all the people who show so much love and support to Grumpy Magazine every day. Without you, I wouldn’t have the energy and passion to keep going and surpass myself to overcome the hardship coming my way. To all the dreamers out there, you can do it.
From Paris with love
Jasmine Perrier Founding editor-in-chief @jazzieperrier