> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # W Magazine's Great Performances Issues - URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/w-magazines-great-performances-issues/ - Published: 2022-01-12T17:45:14.000Z - Updated: 2022-01-12T01:29:50.000Z - Author: Heather - Tags: fugs, #wp, #wp-gallery, #slideshow, #Import 2026-10-07 08:18 ## Buckethat Cowboylid (trust me) ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2022/01/wmag.vol1_.2022.best_.berformances.benedict.cover-1641946481.jpg) Yes, I promise, someday we will give up the old joke about redoing his name, but you know me -- there's nothing I don't absolutely run into the ground first. Anyway, this photo cracks me up, which I have to believe is intentional. He's playing it SO straight. He is absolutely the hipster in your neighborhood who wants to open his own garden center and whose hat WILL match his Polo shirt every day, and who you've seen in those Vibram five-toe shoes but you just don't talk about it with him because you sense he'd prefer not. ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2022/01/wmag.2022.best_.performances9-1641946605-scaled.jpg) "She loves me... you know what, we'll stop there." ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2022/01/wmag.2022.best_.performances56-1641946738.jpg) I did promise a cowboy hat. I feel like it is as tall as the part of his face we can see, which makes for odd proportions. ## Cate Blanchett ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2022/01/wmag.vol1_.2022.best_.berformances.cate_.blanchett.cover-1641946492.jpg) I guess Nightmare Alley is set in the world of carnivals, so maybe that's why this has a clown-ish element to it? I don't love any of this, but would be curious how Cate would pull off the suit if she had it to do on her own. (Also as an FYI, the stories have additional photos for most people, Cate included, but not all were supplied to the media and Cate's weren't.) ## Jennifer Hudson ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2022/01/wmag.vol1_.2022.best_.berformances.jennifer.hudson.cover-1641946538.jpg) I don't ever really understand the shoulder-touching pose unless she's wearing rings for a jewelry ad, which... here, she is not. Also that dress does not fit her chest. ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2022/01/wmag.2022.best_.performances16-1641946620.jpg) The shoulder-touch may have been better to the Affectless Rose Brandishment. ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2022/01/wmag.2022.best_.performances8-1641946595.jpg) This dress fits better and is more interesting, but why is she eating her phone case? JENNIFER. That thing is probably crawling with germs. ## Lady Gaga ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2022/01/wmag.vol1_.2022.best_.berformances.lady_.gaga_.cover-1641946572.jpg) "I have a migraine, and I clench." ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2022/01/wmag.2022.best_.performances53-1641946717.jpg) Sincerely, someone clearly got a deal on flowers. I like this photo of Gaga a lot more than the one they picked for the cover, and I think a version of it could have worked on said cover. ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2022/01/wmag.2022.best_.performances33-1641946651.jpg) This is so cool, because it looks like her entire body is hidden under that short cape -- like a tent -- but I THINK, like the J.Hud cover, she is actually standing in front of a table on which it is draping? But it creates such a good trick on the eye. ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2022/01/wmag.2022.best_.performances34-1641946662.jpg) Reader, I laughed. This is so jarring and quirky. W is good at stuff like this. ## Jessica Chastain ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2022/01/wmag.vol1_.2022.best_.berformances.jessica.chastain.cover-1641946548.jpg) And then Jessica got a hella-weird dress and was presumably told to pick her nose with a rose. ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2022/01/wmag.2022.best_.performances36-1641946673.jpg) Your cousin Gina de Lucio thinks you should come by her husband's store for a real nice deal on an adjustable bed. ## Gemma Chan ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2022/01/wmag.vol1_.2022.best_.berformances.gemma_.chan_.cover-1641946515.jpg) Again with the jewelry-ad pose. That cow print coat is crazy and her best performance of the year might be wearing it and not laughing. ## Kristen Stewart ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2022/01/wmag.vol1_.2022.best_.berformances.kristen.stewart.cover-1641946560.jpg) That wig is so extra, but deliciously so. She looks beautiful, melancholy, and a LITTLE bit like she wants to stab you with that flower. I like it, but I can't tell if that's legit or just comparative. ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2022/01/wmag.2022.best_.performances2-1641946585.jpg) She's holding that one like a cane. I have never seen anyone hold a blossom that way before. Maybe it's a metaphor for the crushed spirit of Diana Spencer? (It also cracks me up that in the interview she acts like Diana's born name being "Diana Spencer" is a surprise. I guess it might have been to someone her age?) ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2022/01/wmag.2022.best_.performances28-1641946641.jpg) I like this version of the picture so much more. This woman is *really* ticked off that Bobby is still helping a customer and making them late for their dinner reservations. ## Honor Swinton Byrne and SWINTON ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2022/01/wmag.vol1_.2022.best_.berformances.honor_.tilda_.cover-1641946526.jpg) Their piece is not that long, and handwaves the nepotism of Honor being cast in this series of movies without having to audition, and just because SWINTON suggested it. Honestly, though, the movies are by her godmother, and I respect that a lot more than the whole disingenuous Tori Spelling angle of, "I didn't tell anyone I was auditioning and nobody at my father's company had ANY IDEA who I was!!!!!" Honor looks fine here but the star is clearly SWINTON and I want someone to write a whole movie based on what she is wearing. ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2022/01/wmag.2022.best_.performances55-1641946727.jpg) I have no idea what's happening here. THIS is why I think photographers want to work with her. There's probably a lot of, "I don't even know what we're doing, or why, but let's GO WITH IT." ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2022/01/wmag.2022.best_.performances66-1641946751.jpg) "Can we get one for the 'gram?" ## Denzel Washington ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2022/01/wmag.vol1_.2022.best_.berformances.denzel.washington.cover-1641946503.jpg) I enjoy that Denzel's is like, "Let's just do Denzel being Denzel." ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2022/01/wmag.2022.best_.performances51-1641946695.jpg) The variety here is a slightly different smile. ## Adam Driver ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2022/01/wmag.vol1_.2022.best_.berformances.adam_.driver.cover-1641946470.jpg) "Team Denzel." ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2022/01/wmag.2022.best_.performances19-1641946631.jpg) I actually think I would have picked this one -- it's SO counter to how he presents himself, and intriguing to see. 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