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person and I try to count that every day,” she tells me. Her highlight of the experience has been spending so much time with her mother, Jamie, and sister, actress Hunter King, with whom she’s been bunking for the last few months.
The day before our chat, King posed for photographer Leeor Wild from her home over Zoom. “We were both giggling through the whole thing be- cause we’d never done anything like it before,” she says. For the pared back cover shoot, King did her own hair and makeup, while stylist, Jared Eng, chimed in on outfit pairings via Facetime. “These are brands I’ve always admired and loved so much, so getting to wear their pieces in such a weird circumstance makes it all the more special,” she tells me of the designer de- liveries that arrived at her home from Chanel, Dior, and Louis Vuitton.
And while this was her first digital photo session, it certainly wasn’t King’s first time donning high fashion. A rising red carpet star in her own right, King has landed on many Best Dressed lists in the last year for her eclectic choices, and most recently for the optical illusion Iris van Herpen gown she wore to the Golden Globes in February. “I love to have fun with my style, but lately, I’ve been gravitating towards elegance and looks that feel timeless,” she says. “Every now and then I throw in something that’s a little trippy like Iris van Herpen—she’s one of my absolute favourite designers.”
Similarly, King is a chameleon in her acting, with her biggest roles to date flexing all sides of the small screen spectrum. In the true crime miniseries, The Act, she played Gypsy Rose Blanchard, a woman who, after years of abuse at the hands of her mother is complicit in her murder. “Playing a char- acter such as Gypsy and being able to transform myself into another human being in the way I wanted to (and I want to say this in the most sensitive way that I can, because it is somebody’s real life that I am portraying) was a dream,” she says. The fact that Blanchard was a real person scared her,
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Full look by Chanel.