Sorry, Not Sorry
Vogue|July 2018

Lakeith Stanfield charms Hollywood with his unapologetic appeal.

Alessandra Codinha
Sorry, Not Sorry

A FEW DAYS BEFORE I meet him, Lakeith Stanfield, the ineffably cool, California-raised 26-year-old star of the new film Sorry to Bother You, does something that I find completely insane: He tweets his phone number. Last time he did this, it was nice, he tells me; he had a chance to talk to people. But that was then—sometime between his breakout role in 2013’s Short Term 12 and pivotal parts in culture-quaking films like Selma, Straight Outta Compton, and Get Out, and Donald Glover’s hit TV show, Atlanta.

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