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# Aubrey Plaza Fronts Cosmo's "Holy Grail" Issue
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/aubrey-plaza-front-cosmos-holy-grail-issue-04-2022/
- Published: 2022-04-27T14:00:07.000Z
- Updated: 2022-04-27T16:34:55.000Z
- Description: Is her mother a hamster, perchance? Does her father smell of elderberries?
- Author: Heather
- Tags: Fug The Cover, Cosmopolitan, #wp, #wp-post, #hasslideshow, #Import 2026-10-07 08:20

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This is the third of *Cosmo*'s eight 2022 issues -- a new, themed, cost-cutting, print-is-still-super-broke approach [they announced in February with Sydney Sweeney's issue](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/sydney-sweeney-goes-retro-on-cosmo-02-2022/) \-- and the Holy Grail idea is meant to invoke dreaming and striving and going for it all. But I cannot be the only person who hoped for, say, a profile of a killer bunny as written by There Are Those Who Call Me... Tim (the character, OR our commenter of the same name; I'm not picky), or a sweeping spread of the Castle of Aaargh's interiors, or a tutorial from Roger on how to arrange, design, and sell shrubberies. Zoot, the sex-positive icon of her time, can interview the guy Lancelot basically refused to rescue. Learn how to build your own Trojan Bunny, and enjoy a wildly informative spread on swallows. And you know about the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, but you won't BELIEVE what's among the OTHER holy relics Brother Maynard carries. That's easily a five-page spread -- wait, no, three.

Jessica Pels said the goal of these issues is to be stacked with pride on people's coffee tables, a thing I cannot relate to personally because I only keep magazines there if I am willfully forgetting to recycle them. I could see this one looking very good in somebody's mod living room, though, because the pictures and styling have a slick '60s caper feel to them, and Aubrey does it all very well. I enjoyed the interview, and you can tell both of them did too. Aubrey has really interesting taste in projects, and she's shooting the second season of *The White Lotus* in Sicily (!), so there's an obligatory, if brief, Jennifer Coolidge reference herein. The part that made me laugh, though, was this:

> *I’ve heard more than once that I’m intimidating, that I’m on the offensive all the time, but I’m not. I’ve said things to certain people here on-set where they clearly thought I was fucking with them. \[...\] This guy, not going to name names, but I heard that he ordered turkey from the hotel. This is such a dumb story. But I was thinking, Oh, I wonder if that was any good, and I saw him at the bar and I was like, “Hey, how was that turkey you ate?” I meant it genuinely, like I want to know if it’s good and if I should get it. But then he looked at me and immediately started doing some weird bit. He wouldn’t give me a straight answer and just assumed that I was shaming him for ordering turkey. I was like, “Bro, I just wanted to know if it was good.”*

I can one hundred percent imagine Aubrey Plaza asking this question, and 100 percent imagine interpreting it as if the question is coming from April Ludgate, with a dark tinge to it, and feeling self-conscious. I'm sure it's hard when people identify you so readily with a dry, sarcastic character like April, and Aubrey *does* have a bit of Resting Snark Face (this is not an insult; I like her face). We only got to use two of the photos other than the cover, but [I highly recommend reading the piece and enjoying the other pictures](https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a39727706/aubrey-plaza-movies-white-lotus-interview-2022/?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io), because I had a hard time picking which ones I wanted to run. She carries the theme very well.

###### \[Photos: Ali Mitton for Cosmopolitan\]