The REAL DEAL

For THREE DECADES, Chloë SEVIGNY has cut a SINGULAR PATH, both on SCREEN and in FASHION, building a BODY of WORK that feels as UNEXPECTED as it does AUTHENTICALLY her own

- LAIA GARCIA-FURTADO

Meeting Chloë Sevigny was always going to be a very New York affair. The plan is to meet for lunch at Revelie, a tucked-away-in-plain-view French diner in SoHo, complete with a dark-wood bar and vinyl-topped chrome stools where one may sit and enjoy a classic jambon beurre with a Coke float.

I arrive a few minutes early to find Sevigny already ensconced in a booth in the back, where she can observe the entire room. She is wearing a black turtleneck, and her blond hair frames her steely gaze. We shake hands like we're about to close a business deal, but whatever bit of awkwardness exists before the first time an interviewer and interviewee meet in person is immediately extinguished the minute I take off my coat, exposing my almost-six-months-pregnant belly. Her expression changes, and she gestures with her hands, seemingly asking, "What's all this? I wasn't expecting this!" I mirror those same gestures back to her, this being a question I ask myself daily. Sevigny launches into the familiar speed round of questions when two mothers first meet; she and her husband, Siniša Mačković, an art-gallery director, had their son, Vanja, in 2020. How far along? Any pregnancy sickness? How many children? How old? In typical mother-of-a-young-child fashion, she has not been sleeping well. "He was in our bed, and there was a lot of kicking, so I'm a little... not functioning on all cylinders," she says. Now we exchange classic bedtime-routine nightmare scenarios. But it's so fun! We wouldn't trade it for the world! She laughs and orders a coffee with a side of honey.

Sevigny is gearing up to promote The Five-Star Weekend, an eight-episode drama coming to Peacock in July. It's based on the book by Elin Hilderbrand, the bestselling author also responsible for 2024's