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# Todd Field's Spread for W Magazine Involved Danielle Deadwyler
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/todd-fields-spread-for-w-magazine-involved-danielle-deadwyler-03-2023/
- Published: 2023-03-02T19:00:28.000Z
- Updated: 2023-03-02T20:18:03.000Z
- Description: I wish it had featured her better?
- Author: Heather
- Tags: Fug The Cover, W magazine, #wp, #wp-post, #hasslideshow, #Import 2026-10-07 08:22

[View the gallery](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/danielle-deadwyler-on-w/)

As we saw earlier with The Daniels and Jennifer Coolidge, *W* magazine's Directors Issue asked three of them to style shoots with actors and themes of their choice (from what I can glean). It yielded so many photos beyond just a cover that we're putting each of the shoots up separately, just so you can marinate in it as we presume they intended. The premise for Todd Field's shoot is: homage to his favorite noirs, specifically those of Humphrey Bogart, but recreated via a woman instead. He picked Danielle Deadwyler, which is awesome, and these are beautifully shot and put together -- you absolutely get the inspiration behind them, and in many cases, the movie they're celebrating. But I wish they had celebrated Danielle just a bit more. She's present in a few, partially obscured in some, silhouetted or shadowed in many. They bring female energy in the sense that a woman is indeed pictured, but I don't think he used that premise to get anywhere exciting. [He has lovely things to say about her](https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/danielle-deadwyler-todd-field-tar-directors-issue-cover?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) and the process of creating a visual mystery? The last shot, though, of her face pushing up against some suffocating material, made me downright uncomfortable as, like, a human who breathes.

###### \[Photos by Todd Field, story by Lynn Hirschberg\]