Chase INFINITI

The One Battle After Another breakout is garnering awards buzz for her very first film role.

- PHOTOGRAPHED BY CARIN BACKOFF STYLED BY ALEX WHITE

Dress, bra, skirt, VAQUERA. Earrings, necklace, BULGARI. Boots, KHAITE.

“MY LIFE IS INSANE,” Chase Infiniti says, cupping her forehead with one hand. “I have to keep pinching myself because I’m like, ‘Is this a dream? Is this fake? Am I in some alternate reality?’ It’s crazy.” The 25-year-old could be referring to starring in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Best Picture front-runner, One Battle After Another, opposite Leonardo DiCaprio and a slew of other big-name stars; meeting her idol, Zendaya, during this year’s Paris Fashion Week; or maybe even becoming an Oscar contender for Best Actress for her first movie—ever. Given how Infiniti’s life has been going for the past couple of months, it’s all of the above.

When we chat, she’s in London, enjoying a brief moment of stillness amid the One Battle frenzy. Before this, she was hopping from L.A. to Mexico City, New York, Chicago, Paris, and then some. It’s probably a typical press tour, but Infiniti wouldn’t know—she’d never done one. She called Ruth Negga, her onscreen mom in Apple TV’s Presumed Innocent, for help. “I was like, ‘Ruth, what’s a press tour?’”

But there’s more to credit than the promotional cycle (and her viral TikToks with her costars) for Infiniti’s sudden stardom. Her performance in