Laura Harrier – Heavy Hitter

Whatever "it" is that star power, secret sauce, special somethingLaura Harrier has it, with plenty left over. The 32-year-old actor is effortlessly chic, quietly hardworking, and exceedingly thoughtful about, well, everything. And her latest roles are no exception.

- By Lola Ogunnaike

I am supposed to be interviewing Laura Harrier. Instead, between bites of arice and soy sauce concoction she’s thrown together, she’s grilling me. I’m ready to ask about the many projects she’s promoting at the moment Hulu’s Mike Tyson biopic series Mike, Netflix’s animated Kid Cudi project Entergalactic, a highly anticipated reboot of White Men Can't Jump), notto mention the sun-drenched European vacation she’s kindly interrupted to take this very Zoom. But nope. Laura has taken over, and before I know it, we’re chatting about my husband, my new home, and my overzealous Nigerian uncles. She’s even busy taking in my surroundings: Is that a Kehinde Wiley?” she asks, pointing at the baroque painting of my then-toddler son on the wall behind me. Yes, it is. Before I became an actress,” Laura says, I thought I'd be a curator.” Okay, fine, so she is kind and inquisitive and has an eye for art—is there literally anything this woman can’t do?