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Page 14 ... Marlon Brando Page 18... Stephen Amell Page 24... Chris Evans Page 32... #HitMe Page 40... Movie’s New Wave

TEN FACTS: CHANNING TATUM PAGE 12

CLASSIC ICON:MARLON BRANDO PAGE 14

SPRING FASHION: CLASSIC HAIRSTYLES PAGE 16

COFFEE BREAK WITH STEPHEN AMELL PAGE 18

FASHION: RYAN REYNOLDS + APPLE WATCH PAGE 20

POLITIC VIEWS BY CHARLES P. PIERCE PAGE 22

CHRIS EVANS IS CAPTAIN AMERICA PAGE 24

WHAT IS #HITME PAGE 32

OSCARS STYLE PAGE 38

HOLLYWOOD’S NEW WAVE PAGE 40

HAWKEYE PAGE 48

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It’s March and a new beginning has come to us. Under NOW! Magazines Inc. we have found a new sister magazine, Moon, and, with it, a new point of view we can’t wait to share with you.

You might find some changes in our style and some new contents, but do not fear, we’re still the same.

It’s almost spring and the weather is getting a little warmer. It might be time to abandon coats and get on with trench coats, but don’t get too excited!

Spring break might be near, but as LA gets out the shorts and speedos, New York still sees some occasional snow.

So be a good sport and keep the scarf, just in case.

Did you catch any of the Oscar movies last month? Maybe even the ceremony? If not, we bring you a small recap, along with the best pictures! Eddie Redmayne not only brought home the Best Actor prize, but he amazed with his style and his moving speech.

You might also want to catch Benedict Cumberbatch’s and Adam Levine’s style is you’re planning for a fancy night out in the city.

And speaking about the city, here in New York we’re having a hell of a month. If hell were to freeze, of course.

But the city keeps busy and alive, why wouldn’t it? In the city that never sleeps, we are barely sleeping either.

Is it the work? The cold? Our amazing social lives? None of that. Once of that, it’s something as lame and addictive as... a dating app. The city is buzzing, or maybe our pockets are. #HitMe is the most downloaded application in the state, and it is definitely entertaining. But is is the best dating app yet?

In our new section, one of our writers teams up with a Moon’s reporter so you don’t have to get the app to find out about it.

My good friend Petra Solano and I have been talking a lot since our offices are so close now. We’ve developed the theory everyone’s secretly a nerd deep inside. So if you’re not out, you’re definitely a closeted nerd. Want to find out? It’s easy! Check our article on the new and fantastic Hawkeye and if you are hooked, you have your answer. If you are not, maybe try DC?

Channing Tatum is the man of the hour. Or is it the year? He’s been a household name for years, his rom coms and comedies box office hits everywhere. With Foxcatcher, we see his full potential. You don’t want to miss the movie, nor our great article about what many call the sexiest man alive.

Maybe you can learn a tip or two about style, girls and career from the stripper turned actor.

We also had the chance to catch up with the great Stephen Amell during coffee break. His charity work is inspiring, and also making us feel a bit guilty over our lack of generosity. Maybe you should give it a try and donate.

This is it for this month! I hope you enjoy this issue and, most of all, your well deserved spring break.

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10 Things You Should Know About:

Channing Tatum Channing Tatum started off as a stripper. Then he was the kid from Step Up. Later, he was known for his role in romantic dramas your girlfriend loved to watch. He became the comedy actor you loved in 21 Jump Street. Now, he’s on to a new era. Tatum has earned critical acclaim for his role in Foxcatcher. Could this mean the actor is beginning to take the road to the Oscars?

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1. He was a fidgety kid.

Channing’s mom on his boyhood: “You weren’t bad. You were just… busy.”

2. He Night-at-The-Roxybury-ed his way into dance.

“I mostly learned to dance by hanging out in clubs and grinding on girls.”

3. Director Bennett Miller discovered Channing’s potential for darkness in an obscure role.

After watching the 2006 drama A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints in which Channing plays a bully,Miller made up his mind: “I saw him in that and immediately offered him the part in Foxcatcher, which was still years away. And in that time, Channing’s career took him directions that moved him away from the thing that caught my eye.”

8. But he says wrestling is harder.

“In wrestling, there is no retreat. No way to slow things down. In wrestling, you advance and advance, and being tired is just a lie to make the other guy think he can relax. It’s so hard, harder than anything I’ve ever done.”

9. Foxcatcher costar Mark Ruffalo commends Channing’s intense training for the film.

“No doubt there’s an element of misery, and we felt that. But Channing is

unrelenting and unyielding. He went right through. And he created that intensity with his eyes, his body, this presence.”

10. Channing didn’t go to acting school, and he didn’t follow their no-imitation rules when studying wrestler Mark Schultz.

“What I did was really work on imitating him, from his walk to his neck rolls. I tried to get myself to fit inside that. Everything in him looks a little shredded and like it hurts, but no one will ever know how much.”

4. Channing’s silly roles have done nothing to wane Bennett’s confidence in his actor.

“It took about six years from the time I offered him the role to get the movie made, and in that time there was never anybody that I ever wanted for the part other than Channing.”

5. Channing’s naked dance rehearsals for the Magic Mike sequel come with an extra scoop of awkward.

“There are a lot of apologies. A lot of ‘I’m sorry that ran into your chin’ and ‘Let me take my thigh off your neck.’”

6. He’s unfailingly polite.

After being accidentally squirted in the face with crab juice, Channing replied, “This happens with crab. It’s all right. At least I got some crab.”

7. Channing studied martial arts as a kid.

“It wasn’t complicated. I learned to appreciate repetition. That’s why I can dance. It’s how I learned to act. I have a high tolerance for repetition.”

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Marlon through clark’s lense

by Ben Cosgrove

The year was 1949, and 25-year-old Marlon Brando — “the brilliant brat,” as LIFE magazine called him following his astonishing work on Broadway in A Streetcar Named Desire — had finally answered the call of Hollywood. He was preparing for his movie debut in The Men, the wrenching story of a paralyzed World War II vet coping with rage and insecurity. And while it’s true that Los Angeles was familiar with “Next Big Thing” newcomers, it was (and, to some extent, still is) exceedingly rare to document the earliest days in the career of an actor of Brando’s intensity, quirkiness and electrifying talent.

Photographer Ed Clark captured Brando’s explosive arrival in California, chronicling the actor as he submerged himself in “The Method” — e.g., taking to a wheelchair and struggling with leg braces while living among paraplegics at a VA hospital in Van Nuys.

But Clark also came away with surprising glimpses into the more personal, private Brando.

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Here, on the 10th anniversary of Brando’s death (the Omaha, Neb., native died on July 1, 2004, in Los Angeles), LIFE.com presents a number of Clark’s photos — most of which were never published in LIFE — at a time when the actor was just beginning to forge his own Hollywood legend.

during the four weeks before production began. This, he felt, was necessary to giving a completely knowledgeable and valid performance in his role. He was given a bed in a 32-bed ward, where he was treated almost like any other patient.”

Accompanying Ed Clark’s images in LIFE’s archives were meticulous notes about Brando written by Theodore Strauss, who would ultimately write the magazine’s 1950 profile that coincided with the release of The Men. Strauss details the actor’s every eccentricity: what he wore, how he ate, what he read, how he shunned any sort of red carpet that might have been laid out for him when he came to town.

The actor’s reputation as a bad boy had preceded him, stories of his nose-picking, shabby dress, foul language and grumbling interviews having traveled all the way from New York to Los Angeles. But, LIFE wrote, “however infantile or irresponsible Brando may be in his personal life, he is a totally conscientious artist in his work. Unlike some of Hollywood’s pretty people, he was never late on the set, never indulged in a tantrum, never required endless retakes.”

“Stanley Kramer, producer of The Men, had intended on putting Brando in a good hotel, but Brando would have none of it,” Strauss wrote. “First of all he insisted on living with the paraplegics in Birmingham Veterans Hospital

He was also far more of an introvert, in some ways, than his reputation suggested. Brando, wrote Strauss, “reads everything, absolutely omnivorous — from Krishnamurti to recent novels.”

For the actor, it was all about the craft

— nothing else, even life’s essentials, seemed to matter. From LIFE’s profile: “His salary, for the soundest of reasons, has been sent to his father, Marlon Brando Sr., who invests the money in cattle on a Midwestern ranch called Penny Poke. Each week Brando receives a living allowance of $150. Because he rarely looks at money and sometimes pays for a package of cigarets with a $20 bill, he usually is penniless by the second day.”

Of his relationship with the real paraplegics and quadriplegics from whom he was learning for his role, Strauss noted that “Brando’s orientation and adjustment as a paraplegic was so complete that he participated in their sometimes gruesome horseplay with complete freedom — one of the reasons why he was so completely accepted. [Pranks] include pillow fights and using hypodermic syringes for water pistols.”

From Strauss’ notes about Hollywood’s reaction to Brando: “Thus far no one has accused him of posing; everyone to whom we’ve spoken has a sort of confused respect for a man who, up to now, has managed to live as he feels, without caring a hoot what anyone thinks.”

In his personal style, meanwhile, the actor was unfussy and unpretentious, almost to a fault: “When Brando first arrived in Hollywood his only luggage was a battered, imitation-leather suitcase the size of a woman’s overnight bag,” Strauss observed. “He was wearing a blue worsted suit which had seen much wear and weather — there were holes and tears in the jacket, and a part of Brando was visible through the seat of the pants.”

Once official production on The Men began, Brando moved out of the vete-

rans hospital and into a small bungalow owned by his aunt, Betty Lindemeyer, in Eagle Rock, Calif. During this period Brando’s maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Myers, was also a house guest.

“She [his grandmother] was quite abashed because Ed Clark took pictures of Marlon in a bathrobe, which happens to be hers,” reported a production assistant in notes found in LIFE’s archives. Grandma Myers was also apologetic about the barbaric way her grandson ate: “Bud doesn’t bring the food to his face,” she told LIFE, using Brando’s nickname. “He brings his face to the food.”

“I do hope that Bud comes through all this without too much scandal,” she confided to LIFE at one point. “I love him more than anything on this earth, but I never know when I’m going to hear from him in San Quentin.”

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2015’s BEST CLASSIC HAIRCUTS

by Julian Black combed it through into a side part.

Once the hair was partially dried, I broke it up a bit.” Gel Serum isn’t a hard product, so you won’t get the kind of stiff helmet head that you could crack an egg on. Instead, once it’s dry, your hair will loosen up and

#1 Leonardo DiCaprio We spoke to the stylist for our shoot with Leonardo Dicaprio, Natalia Bruschi, to get the scoop on how to achieve his signature brand of graceful messiness. “On his wet hair, I applied Oribe Gel Serum and then

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soften, leaving enough hold to give it a sort-of-orderly-but-still-sort-ofmessy look. #2 Ryan Gosling Gosling sports one of the easiest styles to emulate for any face or hair type. Ask for something high and tight on the side, and about an inch longer on top. Add a side part, which you’ll maintain by towel-drying, then using matte pomade with a comb. Sidenote: We can’t guarantee this hairstyle will make all women love you. #3 Hugh Jackman Jason Schneidman, the man Hollywood trusts to translate the image of its biggest characters from the big screen to the red carpert says about Jackman, “We wanted to keep the feel of Wolverine but do something more wearable.”

He cut the hair to about a half-inch on the sides and two-and-a-half inches up top before shaping it so that

Dempsey, but if you’ve got curly hair, it won’t turn out well. Sorry. This one also looks best if you’ve got a square jaw, but will work with just about any face shape.

re top. By not blending, he shifts attention away from the forehead, and instead puts it on the locks that are still left. You can achieve a similar result by pumping up your hair’s body and texture. After towel drying, style it with a small amount of a stiff wax. #6 Chris Pine Square jaw line? Good for you. Get it cut almost like Chris Pine. Go shorter and much tight on the sides and let it air-dry. Then go back at it with a bit of pomade. You can skip the highlights, unless you’re hgeaded back to the Starship Enterprise.

it’s could be swept up and back, or just brushed to the side. The “corners” are left rough and textured, “so it looks a little more wild, like it hasn’t just been cut.” Because, despite those blade-like claws, Wolverine probably doesn’t trim his hair very often.

#4 Alexander Skarsgard Elle Medico, a men’s stylist at Paul Labrecque Salon, says that any guy can achieve this look, and that it works especially well if you’ve got a receding hairline. “Longer up front and shorter everywhere else gives the illusion of a fuller head of hair.” If you’ve got wavy hair, it’ll turn out more like Patrick

#5 Daniel Day Lewis As for the receding hairline, well, most guys opt to clip things short all around so as not to draw attention to their follicular distress. “He’s growing more hair where it’s receding, which isn’t something a stylist would normally tell a guy to do,” says Elle Medico, men’s stylist at Paul Labrecque Salon in New York.

He’s also cutting the sides very short and going right in for a strong, squa-

#7 Michael Ealy If you’ve got curly hair and a more angular face, go modern with a round cut. This one’s about a half an inch longer on top than on the sides. If it starts looking too bushy it’ll be pretty obvious you need a trim.

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Coffee break with...

Ste phen Amell

He may be known better as Oliver Queen in the hit series ‘Arrow’, but Stephen Amell is more than just your regular superhero.

We talk to him about comics, superheroes and charity.

Congrats on season three of ‘Arrow.’

I would say that it is everything that we expected but that wouldn’t really be true because there hasn’t been a recent history of successful comic book shows on television, with the exception of “Smallville.” Aside from the success of our show, the appearance and relative abundance of comic book properties on TV is really gratifying.

Aside from “Smallville,” comic books had a pretty spotty history on TV until “Arrow” came along. Now “Flash” is doing well and so is “Gotham.” Last season saw “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” score big ratings.

Yeah. A lot of reviews of “Arrow” at first said “This is an interesting concept but we know that comic book shows don’t work long-term on TV.” Well, that has now been proven wrong. I think the success of “Flash” and the other comic book properties is because of the quality of the material in those shows. But if we had been a bust, I don’t think any of those shows would exist. They stand on their own two feet, but I think we led the way.

I know you do a lot of your own stunts. Is there anything strange or unusual that you do to maintain those ripped abs?

No, not really. You know, there are different motivations when it comes to going to the gym and the motivation of maintaining the physique you’ve established on television and the fact that you are going to be showing it on television – if that’s not enough to motivate people then I don’t know what would. I go to every workout with the notion that it’s my job. Me being shirtless certainly isn’t the only element that’s made it successful, I don’t think its anywhere near the top of the list, but it is certainly part of the total equation and I’d be silly to think that it is not.

Let’s talk about the charity effort you are launching now.

The folks at F–k Cancer approached me back in August and connected me with Represent.com. I had no idea what Represent represented. They are a really interesting, forward-thinking company that helps you design a T-shirt and then puts it up for sale to help out a charitable cause. Where I came in is, I’ve been having a lot of fun over the past ten months on Facebook interacting with fans. The first of this year I had 500,000 fans and now we are hurtling towards 3 million. Along the way, people have been really interested in charitable endeavors that I have been a part of. So, I canvassed them to see what would be the most palatable idea for a T-shirt and they wanted to see a shirt with my face with a post-it note on the forehead. We ended up selling just over 21,000 over a three-week campaign. Since that point, I’ve received so many notes from people saying “we missed our chance, can you put them back on sale?” I wanted to maintain the exclusivity, but it is for a tremendous cause so I said, “Let’s put it back up for 24 hours,” and that’s happening Thursday night at midnight.

Do you worry that the F–k Cancer message is a little profane or does the edginess and the harsh attitude toward cancer really sell it?

I think that it is 90% something that sells it and 10% something that holds it back. But cancer is such a horrible thing that it works. I have received notes from people who are more conservative by nature or, because we ship worldwide, people who live in far more conservative parts of the world and they said, “We would love to suppose something like this that does not drop an F-bomb right on the cover.” I’m going to work with Represent.com in the future, we don’t know what we are going to do yet, but I can assure people there will not be an expletive on the T-shirt.

What is coming up on ‘Arrow’?

I’ll give you something for episodes that are going to come after our fall run, stuff in our winter run. I have never, in my history with “Arrow,” had as light a schedule as I have had for the past several weeks… ever! It’s been very strange, let’s just put it that way.

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MARCH’S FASHION ICON Ryan Reynolds is one of the most elegant men on Hollywood.

Take tips from both his red carpet and every day style!

APPLE WATCH Is apple’s new toy useful or just pretty?

THE GOOD

The Apple Watch is a beautifully constructed, compact smartwatch. It’s feature-packed, with solid fitness software, hundreds of apps, and the ability to send and receive calls via an iPhone.

THE BAD

Battery barely lasts a day and recharge time is slow; most models and configurations cost more than they should; requires an iPhone 5 or later to work; interface can be confusing; sometimes slow to communicate with a paired iPhone.

THE BOTTOM LINE

The Apple Watch is the most ambitious, well-constructed smartwatch ever seen, but first-gen shortfalls make it feel more like a fashionable toy than a necessary tool.

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Ms. Rodham Clinton And The Money: A Cautionary Tale In which we prepare ourselves for the ongoing conundrum.

Politics with Charles P. Pierce Apparently, Hillary Rodham Clinton is still out in the sticks, meeting and greeting with The Folks. During one of these little events -- in Monticello, Iowa, no less -- she dropped a kind of bombshell about what Anthony Kennedy and his four friends have done to our election system by legalizing influence peddling on a grand scale.

several pillars of her 2016 presidential campaign. “We need to fix our dysfunctional political system and get unaccountable money out of it once and for all -- even if it takes a constitutional amendment,” Clinton said in opening remarks at a roundtable event with Kirkwood students and instructors.

In the immortal words of Keanu Reeves in every movie he ever made...

Holding her first official campaign event at Kirkwood Community College in rural Monticello, Clinton identified campaign finance reform as one of

Let us be clear. For all their misbegotten effects, the Supreme Court decisions that have legalized influence peddling -- both Citizens United

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and McCutcheon -- are written tightly enough to strike down practically every conceivable attempt to overturn them through the ordinary legislative process, either in the Congress or in state legislatures. (The decisions already have murdered Montana’s campaign-finance regulations that were enacted in reaction to the corruption of our previous Gilded Age.) A constitutional amendment is very likely the only way to stop the corruption from metastasizing into electoral infinity.

(And can we for the moment forget

OPINION about laughing at the strange flight of Doug Hughes and his gyrocopter and concentrate instead on how we got to a place as a nation where this was one of the only ways to get anyone to pay attention to the fact that our politics are being sold off for parts. Kudos, by the way, to my pal Ben Montgomery down in Tampa for being the chief chronicler of Hughes Air.) Of course, Rodham Clinton is absolutely right, but she is stuck with the towering, immortal irony that she might be pitching for this constitutional amendment from atop a billion-dollar presidential campaign that is not going to be funded by widows and orphans.

Kennedy et.al. have constructed a perfect maze for any important politician who wants to undo what they’ve done. You have to take advantage of the new system in order to destroy it, and you have to get voters to understand that deep game instead of falling for the simpler nyah-hyah-hypocrite! heckling from the peanut gallery. The odds on this are not good. No wonder Doug Hughes tried to rise above the whole business.

It is more complex for Rodham Clinton, of course, because of her closeness to various Wall Street institutions, and because she’s married to the guy who signed a lot of the legislation that helped unleash hell on the American economy in the autumn of 2008. Which is why something else she said out there amid the silos brought me to still another Keanu moment. She told a group that the economy sickened unto death in 2008 because the bankers denied

credit to “small businesses.” This turns history on its head, but in a very interesting way.

What happened in 2008 was that a flock of 100-ton chickens came home to roost. Thanks largely to legislation signed by our previous President Clinton -- mainly the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act and the reprehensible Commodities Futures Trading Act -- the Wall Street casino really went to town, devising all manner of exotic financial instruments and fiduciary three-card monte games designed specifically to re-channel the country’s wealth into very few pockets. This should have surprised approximately nobody. Ever since the rise of the ridotto in Venice in the 17th century, the boundary between financial speculation and casino gambling has been largely evanescent.

As David Schwartz writes in Roll The Bones, his admirable history of gambling: The entrepreneurs and investors who invented British finance capitalism had more in common with gamblers than they would have admitted. With scant regulatory oversight and unpredictable market conditions, early stock exchanges were often similar to...coffeehouses where “insurers” accepted wages on sieges, and stock prices were far more turbulent than the relatively gentle bull and bear cycles accepted today.

What happened, of course, is that the casino went bust, and it was only then that credit truly froze up, which scared the government into bailing out the various high-rollers who had brought on

the crisis, who even then were reluctant to lend out the money we suckers had so generously provided to them.

That Rodham Clinton elides this middle step when talking about what happened to “small business” during the crisis strikes me as more than a little significant. Credit got tight because of the deliberate crimes and frauds of the financial services industry, not because of some mysteriously natural market forces, or because of the workings of some vaguely understood economic “cycle.”

It’s the same tightrope. Rodham Clinton has to raise several fortunes in order to properly make the case that people shouldn’t need to raise several fortunes to run for president. She also has to find a way to square her new populist pitch with her husband’s oft-quoted lament that “You mean to tell me that the success of the economic program and my re-election hinges on the Federal Reserve and a bunch of fking bond traders?” and her own perceived affinity for the financial services community and its money.

The tightrope is the money. It’s only about the money now. It’s only about the money for the forseeable future.

Hillary Rodham Clinton is running in an interesting space in an interesting time, but it’s still only about the money. I expect this is going to be both the fundamental question about her campaign and the fundamental dynamic behind it. I don’t envy her this wire walk of hers. Not a bit.

Clinton is the first Democratic candidate for the 2016 elections.

On the other side of the ring... the Republican primary candidates:

Rand Paul

Ted Cruz

Marco Rubio

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CHRIS EVANS

America’s most elegible bachelor talks about the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Ultron and being Captain America.

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CHRIS EVANS is CAPTAIN AMERICA TEXT: ROB KEYES PHOTOS: TIMOTHY WHITE Earlier today, Chris Evans shared a brand new Avengers: Age of Ultron poster which offered a close-up look at Captain America’s new Avengers-branded field outfit. The costume is another iteration of Marvel Comics’s red, white and blue star-spangled

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Avenger, and while Evans digs the design, he really misses the style and comfort of his Captain America: The Winter Soldier stealth suit.

Evans told us this while wearing the new superhero uniform, sitting down in front of us and other online journa-

lists at London’s Shepperton Studios.

He was our first interview of our Age of Ultron set visit and seemed more enthused than ever at the current status and plans for his character, Steve Rogers, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

How much is Cap reeling from the events of The Winter Soldier when we meet him here?

You know, he’s adjusting. The team doesn’t have anyone to report to now.

There’s no more S.H.I.E.L.D. so we’re all kind of depending upon one another, but that gives him an opportunity to kind of take more of a leadership role I suppose. Since there’s no one else giving him orders he doesn’t have to question the chain of command or anyone’s motives but it does mean he needs to rely on his team a lot more so it’s just kind of added a little bit more tension to the actual dynamic of the Avengers. But with these movies it’s hard to kind of dive too deeply into any one character’s plotline, you know what I mean? That’s just the nature of how these movies are going to have to work. You do your movie and then you come to Avengers and then we all address a group conflict and then go back to your conflict. There’s too many, too many plots, too many characters to try and spend too much time with your own individual conflict, you know?

At the end of The Winter Soldier, Rogers is starting his own mission?

When you enter this film do we see you on that mission?

I can’t tell you that. Next question!

How has the group dynamic evolved and hoq are the relationships developing?

I don’t think I can tell you that either [Laughs]. These are tough to give because you don’t want to give too much, too many plot points away. I can see headlines now plastering and I get a little talking to.

We are embargoed for quite awhile so you can tell us everything.

Oh you are! Oh, okay! All right, so, oh great. So, Steve’s a woman in this one.

[Laughs] Everyone has their own personal… the Scarlet Witch… what can I tell you [Laughs] has a way of making each of us kind of, you know, she gets in your head. That’s her ability so each one is

kind of confronted with their own personal issues and demons and that kind of creates personal struggles as well as conflicts for the team. So I don’t wanna dive too deeply into each person’s individual conflict but it’s tense.

This is your fourth film playing Captain America. How comfortable are you with the character and what ownership have you taken with who this Captain America is?

Very comfortable. You know, the first movie you’re terrified. The second one you’re just, you know, intimidated because there’s so many great people but

by Captain 2 is when you really start kind of hitting your stride and feeling like you’re making some core progress with the character and you get a little more comfortable speaking up when you have opinions. And [directors Anthony and Joe Russo] are so great and I love that movie and it all just kind of worked out in terms of the evolution of my personal connection with the character. So at this point I’m feeling really good and, you know, again like I said it’s hard to give too much individual attention to your own plotline in a movie like this. They still give good hurdles to jump but it’s almost kind of… I’m very excited for Cap 3.

Is there carry over between the relationship that you and Scarlett [Johansson] have in Winter Soldier which is so funny and casual?

Yeah! You know, they do really good stuff with Scarlett in this one with her personal story as well so the bond is definitely there but in Cap 2, we established it. We’re not gonna keep beating on that one. It’s built. It’s there. It’s solid. The foundation is there. So this movie begins with kind of a connection between the two of us but she has her own arc in this movie.

Do we get the impression in this movie that The Avengers have gotten together in between the two movies or do they only come together for these big events we see on screen?

No, they do do a good job ‘cause, you

know, you don’t wanna waste time - the movie’s only a couple of hours long and you’ve got a lot of people to fit in there so we really hit the ground running with this movie. The opening scene is, you know, [snaps fingers] boom, so we don’t wanna kind of be like ‘what have you been up to?’ So you hit the ground running [LAUGHS] and then you kind of pepper in dialogue like ‘man, those past couple of years have been crazy haven’t they?’

That’s in no way a cheat. That’s for the audience’s sake. You don’t wanna waste your time trying to be like, you know, having reunion moments. You just wanna get these guys fighting together. …Everything that Marvel does there’s, you know, it’s a chess move. Nothing is by accident. Everything is calculated so sometimes there are things that even I find out and I’m like that’s why you did that? You guys. You sons of bitches.

Was there anything you talked to Joss about before you started on this that you wanted to make sure was included or involved?

In terms of the character, Joss helped write the first Captain America and not only that, he’s fanboy, you know what I mean? He loves comic books so it’s not like you’re talking to someone who might not have a handle of what audiences want and who this character is at his core. The only thing I kind of talked to him about was his ability consistency. You know, with the second Captain America we really pushed the envelope in terms of what this guy is capable of – which I was excited to see ‘cause in the first Captain America he’s just strong. In Avengers it was still in my opinion a little bit punch, punch, kick, kick.

It’s like fine but, you know, you just can’t be Jason Bourne. We gotta see this guy do stuff that’s like ‘yeah, he deserves a spot on this squad.’ You know, in Captain two he’s pinballing off of Quinjets and taking down, you know, doing unbelievable things. I don’t wanna take a step back so we gotta make

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sure that it seems that he’s continuing training. His fight style needs to advance a little bit. I don’t wanna go full Bruce Lee but there needs to be more than just haymakers and front kicks. There needs to be a style of fight. There needs to be a consistent display of strength, you know, utilize your environment in a way that’s like ‘that’s right, he can pick up a motorcycle with one hand.’

Let’s not forget that I can’t get punched by a human and get knocked down. It just doesn’t make sense to me. So that’s the only thing and that’s a tough thing to, to manage, to try to remember. You know, even in Avengers, I punched a heavy bag across a room. If I hit a person they’re not getting back up. It’s just the way it’s gonna go. We can’t do this any other way. That’s it. Just trying to keep your finger on that pulse and it’s tricky with all these characters.

What Cap’s role in bringing the team back together again?

Well it’s not that he sounded of the alarm. It’s kind of out of necessity. You know, once SHIELD fell, this affected everybody and I don’t know how much I could or even should say. but

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there is something that affects all of us that requires us all to come back together and, and fight as a unit. Cap’s just more than willing to take a leadership role. You know, he’s been in wars. He understands the dynamic of a team.

He’s not doing it out of arrogance or ego. He’s doing it out of necessity and functionality.

Who’s your favorite Avengers other than yourself now that you’re on your second adventure together?

Who’s my favorite avenger? That’s so tough. I’d put myself kind of at the bottom of the list honestly. As a man, as people, I’d take Steve Rogers. As an Avenger [Laughs], I mean come on. I don’t know. I really think Thor is pretty cool. I really like Iron Man just ‘cause, you know, I can’t get enough of Downey. Every single line he gives is so good. It’s really crazy watching him work if you ever get a chance. You’re just like god, I can see why this guy gave birth to this – we wouldn’t be here if it hadn’t been for Downey and what he did with the first Iron Man. Ruffalo! You know, everything the guy does is just so interesting and unique.

Such a good choice. You know, I’d be the first to admit. If you had asked me who’s gonna play the next Hulk I don’t know if he would have been in a lot of people’s radar and yet I can’t picture anybody else now but him. He’s perfect! I don’t know. Everyone’s so great.

Paul Bettany, man. We just had our first scene with him. He’s so good! He’s so good. [Laughs] He’s so good. He is.

You’re gonna love him. He’s gonna be amazing.

What have the other newcomers brought to the table?

It’s gotta be tough coming in, you know, being the new kid in the playground with people have done these movies as a group and in their individual franchises, coming in and trying to not mess with the formula. But everyone’s so talented and professional. I don’t even know what you wanna call it but it just feels right, you know, when we’re were sitting there yesterday having a scene with Paul, with Aaron, with Lizzy and it’s like yeah, this is — yeah, you guys weren’t in the first Avengers? Oh shit, you weren’t.

It just feels, it just feels right. It feels normal and they’re so cool and so good

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and every couple of days Joss will show a little clips of what these abilities are gonna look like and how Lizzy’s gonna… you see things. Like man, let’s not forget Cap’s really strong! [Laughs].

It’s just they’re gonna do so many cool things and everyone is just, you know, I’ve never been a part of a movie where everyone just gets along so well, so consistently and even when you add new people in the dynamic doesn’t shift at all. I don’t know. I don’t know how it’s working but I’m just happy to be a part of it.

You’re back on set with this team and this director, does it feel like you’ve done this before? Do you feel a little more confident?

Yeah, a little bit. In a weird way it feels like you never really left. When it’s your movie there’s this kind of weight and pressure and involvement you’re in. Every single day you’re in every single scene and it’s a lot. This movie is just fun. It’s like summer camp or something. There’s still a responsibility and everyone is still wildly committed and professional about it but there is something about just kind of we’re in this together, we’re all locking in arms,

you know, and we’re all team. In sync.

It feels a lot safer in a way.

Has there been a lot of script changes since you got on set?

Oh, yeah [Laughs]. Oh, my god. Joss.

Like before you shoot he’s like ‘here’s nine new pages.’ Joss! All right. Okay.

I mean it’s not major plot changes but just sometimes dialogue shifts. Sometimes, you know, I don’t know whether it’s that there are a lot of voices and opinions kind of coming down about individual pieces of dialogue or if Joss just wakes up with a brain that can’t sit still and has a better idea and a better exchange and everything is good. Nothing is bad. It never goes. It never gets worse. Everything is just like, man, the guy just leaks clever repertoire. It’s just every single scene is like ‘man, I don’t know’ And even on the day and in the moment he can be ‘I don’t know if I like this.’

And he’ll think for thirty seconds and come up with some brilliant exchange.

God, this guy’s just good. This guy’s good at this. So there are enormous amounts of changes but nothing that really... shakes the earth.

You mentioned how has your fighting style has evolved. How has it evolved in this film?

Well, I mean again we’re just trying to – the foes are a bit more of a challenge so in a way he’s not as effective as I’d like him to be. You have to measure your enemy’s ability based on his capacity to win and sometimes Cap has to take that one to the chin – Be the one who gets thrown around a little bit ‘cause, you know, these Ulrons… pretty powerful. So how as for his fighting style, it’s not like incorporating like Wing Chun or Jeet Kune Do or anything like that. I’m trying to incorporate a lot more of his reflexes, you know what I mean?

I’d love to get some scene where you kind of understand, it’s not just speed and ability. It’s the fact that he can move. Even if his hands were bound you couldn’t get a finger on him. You know, he can still react incredibly fast so we’re trying to incorporate that but by the same token we’re also trying to show what this foe can do. So it’s gotta catch you some times. I don’t know, I guess I can’t get too specific about how his fighting has evolved. It’s just a ma-

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tter of maintaining the speed and strength and agility and all that stuff.

The first film really set up phase 2 in a very interesting way, in terms of where it left you guys and the Marvel universe. Heading into phase 3 do you feel like this launches the characters into some really interesting places by the end of this film. Do you have a sense of where you’re going?

Oh, sure. I mean, even if you have to look contractually, how we’re all kind of set up. If they want to have a clean break towards the end, we’re approaching the final act so you can really kind of pull out all the stops. So yeah, by the end of this movie everyone does have a very interesting trajectory and it’s not so much about like the next six films. It’s, you know, we’re ready to I was gonna say blow our load.

That doesn’t [Laughs], that doesn’t sound good at all [Laughs]. You know, it’s they’re gonna pull out all the stops. I guess that’s [Laughs] the better version of that idiom.

Obviously a big part of this film is going to be Ultron. I’m curious if you can you talk about what he presents as a villain to the group and also what’s it like working with Spader?

Spader, god, Spader! So good! I mean that’s the thing about Joss.

It’s not just about the power of the villain or, you know, his shiny lights or abilities. It’s kind of the mentality of the villain. It’s really, it’s Joss. He’s a very clever writer so it’s really about you guys are — can I say whatever the hell I wanna say?

Am I already in deep shit?

Publicist: No, you’re good.

Evans: Don’t fuck me on this, guys.

Publicist: In general terms, you can talk about Ultron.

Evans: Okay, he’s a woman too.

[Laughs] There’s an ideology behind Ultron that makes him more unique that

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just a bad guy. He doesn’t wanna just kill the Avengers. He doesn’t wanna just destroy the world. He has these monologues and these beautiful speeches that embody a certain mentality about what’s wrong with humanity. It represents something deeper than just ‘I’m evil and I don’t like the good guys.’ So hopefully it’s things like that. That’s what makes you care a little bit more about the story than just, you know, I’m an evil bad guy.

You have like a really complex -like look at what Hiddleston did with Loki. He made a real character. He made a real conflict and Loki could have a movie that has nothing to do with superheroes. It would just be like a really interesting character study, like this guy needs a therapist. But it’s deep and that’s what makes you give a shit. I think that’s what we’re gonna have with Ultron.

You talked about the leadership role that Cap plays in the Avengers now. How does that go with Thor and Hulk and Tony Stark?

Well, again, approaching the end, certain people are moving on into different things and so and the things that we’ve each seen in ourselves in this movie, each one of our hurdles, our battles, our struggles, our shortcomings, our fears.

These are the things that have kind of motivated the catalyst for change and evolution and so for someone like Tony who might not want to be anything but the front man.

He has to kind of face that.

But people like Thor. Thor’s a soldier. I mean he’s just a soldier in another world, so there’s an understanding between those two men, Cap and Thor. It’s the same with Hawkeye. I mean these guys have all been in battle so I think for the most part, there aren’t as many conflicting egos I don’t think in terms of ‘well, who’s leading this crew?’ It’s more personal conflicts

and more personal questions about who they are as people and what they’re looking for and what makes sense and what’s right and wrong.

It’s not so much about well, who’s the front man?

One of Cap’s arcs was just about being comfortable, man out of time in a very increasingly complicated world.

It seems like in this movie it’s going to get even worse. He has a trust issue maybe after the last film. Villains and heroes are gonna cross paths. They are gonna trade sides throughout this movie. Can you talk about his response to that? What are his demons?

Well they do, you know, there are more relationships in this movie, personal relationships. Cap has to kind of witness and I think that does kind of make him question his own purpose in terms of, you know, this is a guy that wanted the family and the wife and kids and stability and normalcy.

He wants to serve his country but what he really wanted in my opinion was a normal life, and then he went into the ice and things changed. So it’s a matter of where is home? You know, he’s

always been a little lost and even in Cap 2 it’s very much about well, what do I want? What am I supposed to be doing? What completes me? And in this one he kind of has to watch some of those relationships close and question, is that the end game? Is that what he’s fighting for?

There has been a visual evolution of the Cap suits. How much input do you have in terms of what you want to do physically and how much give and take there is?

I din’t get enough input on this I tell you that [Laughs]. I really like that stealth suit from Cap 2, the navy blue one in the opening. That was my favorite one. It was so cool and it moved well and it breathed. It was just great.

They keep changing this shit. [Laughs] In the comics, the roster is always changing. Are we gonna see a shake up? In this we have Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, Hawkeye, in the comics, like in the ’60s Cap, all the rest of the guys left and they became the Avengers…

I don’t know how to answer that one without revealing too much. I mean,

you know, it’s Marvel. They’re never gonna do the same thing, you know what I mean? They’re always gonna try and make events and surprise and give audiences what’s unexpected.

Given that your suit now has the Avengers A on the side of it, would you say that the team become more of a formal organization?

Certainly. I mean that’s the thing. The first Avengers, it’s growing pain. It’s getting to know each other, finding trust, understanding our roles and developing allegiance. We’re a unit.

Like I said we hit the ground running in this movie and since the fall of S.H.I.E.L.D. we’re forced to depend on one another so right from the jump in this movie there’s a very clear understanding that this is a team and that we operate as a team. We’re gonna win as a team and we’re gonna lose as a team.

That’s kind of the undercurrent. There’s no question about each other’s loyalty to one another. It’s just a matter of how to go about as a team jumping these hurdles.

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is #HITME the future of dating?

by Ivy Collins & Isaac Crawford

New York is going crazy and it’s all because of an app. No, it’s not Snapchat, Vine nor Instagram, it’s a dating app!

No, it’s not Tinder, Skout nor OKCupid.

Single America’s latest addiction is called #HitMe. As in the Britney Spears hit, …Baby One More Time. Some say it’s the app to end with all dating apps.

Others have decided it’s, once again, just useless crap. For our first ever joined feature, Suit and Moon have decided to try and experience #HitMe to save you the trouble of downloading yet another dating app. And thanks to our joined forces, we’ll be able to provide both female and male points of view on what the Washington Post has called “the dating meeting place of the 21st century”.

What is #HitMe? #HitMe is a free dating app very similar to Tinder or other similar apps. It came out in late 2014 and, since then, it has become the most downloaded social app in the US. After downloading it, the user logs in with their Facebook account and, after setting up a simple and short profile, starts meeting people. Firstly, you can decide to meet women (the backgrounds will turn pinkish) or men (blueish backgrounds) or, of course, both (but not at the same time, you can only explore one gender at a time). Here’s where #HitMe makes a difference. The biggest change from other dating apps is that you can specify what you’re looking for in terms of relationship. There are three categories, and they are pretty self-explanatory:

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1. One Night Stand: exactly what it says on the tin, if you’re looking for a hook-up, this is for you.

2. Relationship/Casual: for more serious encounters that may develop in a relationship. It may stay as fuck buddies or it may evolve into more. People here should be divided in two categories: those looking for a tentative relationship with emotional implications or those who are just looking for a usual hook-up.

3. One True Love: reminding us of fairy tale love, here people are only looking for a serious relationship that could develop into marriage and kids.

Here, people aren’t looking to fool around or experiment, and fuck buddies won’t do for them. Supposedly, all people here are ready to find their soulmate.

This is a great way to save time, separate frogs from princes, you could say.

It could be, if people really stuck to the categories they were interested in.

After that, it’s pretty much the same as always. You hit (or swipe) right or left. The icon on the left will change depending on the category. If you both like each other, a screen announcing the compatibility will appear and chatting will be available. If you’ve been navigating through various categories, do not fear, a little icon will appear near the person to know what they’re looking for.

From there on, you’re on your own.

Meet people, talk to people, fall in love or just… fool around!

But is #HitMe as good as it sounds?

We recruited two of our best writers to dig into young US’s latest addiction. Moon’s Ivy Collins and Suit’s Isaac Crawford created Mia Renaldi and Harry Deckard and started looking for someone to fullfill their imaginary love life. For one month, they logged in every single day, selected people from all three categories and talked to them.

After thirty intense days, they met up with screenshots, printed conversations and notes and, together, wrote this little analysis so you know what to expect when, inevitably, you also fall for the trend. So what did they think?

Is #HitMe the definitive method of dating in the 21st century or is it yet another miss?

Ivy’s experience

I’ve never really been interested in dating apps. I love living in the age of technology and meeting new people from all points of the world, but for dating I prefer meeting men the good ol’ fashioned way. When my boss suggested I tried #HitMe, I was sure I wouldn’t enjoy it at all, but I was wrong.

I started by creating a new profile, Mia

Renaldi was born. From there on, I started trying the app, one category a time. To have the widest range possible, my roommates helped me choose men.

I ended up with around sixty men, twenty from each category. I talked a lot to some of them, but just a few lines to others.

Ivy Collins, 25

Mia Renaldi, 25

Ivy Collins is a senior writer in Moon.

She’s 25 and graduated from Princeton before moving to NYC. She’s our expert in music and spends her time in between Broadway and local indie bands’ concerts.

Ivy is currently single and this is her first time using a dating app.

Mia Renaldi is 25 and works in law. She’s interested in music and tv, and loves to quote nerdy shows everywhere she goes.

She was born and raised in California and has been living in the city for the last two years.

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Screenshots of #HitMe while looking for men. Pictures and names have been changed.

One Night Stand In the hook-up category you can find what you expect. It’s the most similar to what #ByeFelipe posts. Lots of “suck my dick?” and “I wanna fuck your ass” without so much as a hello. But, surprisingly, there’s also lots of nice guys.

J23 asked me about my hobbies and talked to me for a while before asking me for coffee and sex, if we felt attracted to each other. H27 was very interested in what I liked in bed and what I was comfortable with, so we both would enjoy a healthy consensual sexual experience. Sadly, for every good guy, there were five assholes.

Most creepy opening: Are you a chair?

Because I’d love to sit on you.

Men I’d give a chance: 4/20 Relationship/casual This was a mix between ONS and OTL. There were guys trying to deceive girls into easy sex, and I can’t understand why because they have a category specifically for that. There were only men looking for love. Mostly, it was men that were okay with friendship and/or occasional sex and were willing to explore a exclusive relationship.

Here, P25 and I had a wonderful chat

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about a local indie band we both had seen in Brooklyn. M28 had strong views on politics, pro-life associations and sexism. R32 told me about his sister’s upcoming birthday and asked for advice for a last minute present. All in all, every one of them were civil. Then there were the jerks you can’t seem to avoid anywhere. W29 complimented me on my boobs before asking me for a blowjob. F26 wasn’t even that considerate and, when I didn’t answer his request for sex, he called me a stuckup lesbian bitch. True story.

Most creepy opening: I can see the future and in yours I can clearly see my cock.

Men I’d give a chance: 12/20 One True Love This was the category that called me the most. Not that I’m actively looking for the love of my life, but I was very curious about how people thought they could find their soulmate through an app. Surprisingly, I bumped into several serious guys who I genuinely think were going for the real thing.

Most of them, though, were older than those in other categories.

R34 was a big fan of football and poetry,

an odd combination that made him a fun and interesting partner in conversation. E36 offered me tips to improve my inexistent cooking knowledge. D28 was passionate about rock and told me about his time following U2 through North America. There were all kind of interesting, nice men that I’d have liked to go on a date with. Most of them were respectful and polite, and paid far more attention to what I had to say than anyone in the other categories. Of course, there were some douchebags around. Mostly, they were guys who wanted to make fun of women looking for true love. D22 told me I was “too ugly and fat for someone to love me”, S27 offered me sex and then called me a “desperate heartless bitch” when I refused, I26 laughed at me for being so pathetic that I had to look for love online, accusing me of having fake pictures. Fortunately, there were more good guys than bad ones.

Most creepy opening: I thought only fatties needed an app for love. / I am willing to fuck you if you put a bag over your head.

Men I’d give a chance: 15/20

ISAAC’s experience

I don’t really like apps, nor social networks. I barely use Twitter or Facebook and I have no interest in Vine, Instagram or Snapchat. So, when my boss asked me to write this, I had no idea what was ahead of me. The only thing I knew about Tinder was what my coworkers said about it, and I was even more familiarized with Grindr (one of my best friends is addicted to

it). Well, I thought, this is my chance to catch up with the 21st century and shut my friends up for a few months.

I created Harry Deckard, a guy who’s basically me in a parallel universe. I was sure Harry would get a lot of attention – the guy’s very handsome –, but even with this in mind I was surprised. Almost every girl Harry liked had compatibility with him.

Isaac Crawford, 27

Harry Deckard, 27

Isaac is a senior writer in Suit and usually writes our cinema reviews and news.

He likes to run through Central Park, go to the movies at least once a week and has a big crush on Karen Gillan (who doesn’t?). Isaac’s currently single and this is his first time using a dating app.

Harry Deckard is 27 and a photographer.

He was born in Louisiana and started his studies at Columbia, but dropped off before getting his degree. He’s in love with his cameras and also loves watching movies. He has a rebellious side, but he’s mostly known for his funny and positive attitude towards life.

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Screenshots of #HitMe while looking for women. Pictures and names have been changed.

One Night Stand I really thought only guys could be that explicit and rude. M29 politely asked me to put my cock in her ass before I could even say hello. D23 was drunk and looking for trouble. J25 made me shudder and I’m not precisely a prude.

It’s everything you’d expect you found and then, worse.

Of course, there were some nice girls with a clear mind. Most of these were looking for sex to relax and forget about the stress of work, and some of them were just trying to rebound in a relatively responsible way. Fortunately, there was more good and nice than dirty and pervy, and not a single girl insisted or insulted me when I declined to meet them.

Most creepy opening: Hey handsome, your cock has been deep in my dreams.

Women I’d give a chance: 11/20 Relationship/Casual Women in this category were mostly nice and funny. Some of them were just looking for a regular fuck buddy because they didn’t have time for anything else. B28 was a busy powerful businesswoman looking for a break once in a while. P24 had just gotten

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out of a complicated relationship and wasn’t ready for a serious relationship yet. On the other hand, there were some women looking for a relationship, but they weren’t sure if they wanted anything serious yet. Most of them offered “getting to know each other, no strings attached, and staying friends if things didn’t work out”. Here I found a lot of interesting women, like Q26 who worked as a nurse and found meeting people very difficult with her work hours; or E23, who claimed to be using #HitMe as a social experiment and told me all about the guys she had met on the app, from the weirdos to the potential boyfriend material.

Most creepy opening: – Women I’d give a chance: 16/20 One True Love Trying this category really worried me.

I was afraid of disappointing or hurting women who were truly dedicated to finding love. I felt guilty because I was wasting their time in a conversation that wouldn’t go anywhere, when they were really trying to look for true love. Anyway, apart from my personal remorse, in this category I found some of the most interesting women in the

app (and, probably, in the city). These were women with strong conversation that differed totally from the topics girls in the other categories usually talked about. They didn’t talk about relationship possibilities or sex, they went straight ahead and started with the “getting to know each other” part. There were some that maybe were a tad desperate, but most of them were funny and passionate and had just downloaded the app to give it a try. L26 told me “It’s just worth a chance, isn’t it? And if nothing comes of it, at least I’ve met one new friend, that’s always good”. T28 told me she had decided to use this category because “men here are more serious, in ONS and R/C they’re mostly out for sex and I want real conversation”.

I really think I could have fallen for one of these women if this hadn’t been work-related.

Most creepy opening: – Women I’d give a chance: 18/20

#HitMe advertisement, as seen on tub stations all over America in early 2015.

Ivy and Isaac’s shared thoughts after the experience #HitMe isn’t unlike other dating apps.

Our experience could probably be extrapolated to any other application.

Meeting people online was much less weird than we thought at first, and the experience was fun and taught us a lot.

Although men were more offensive and aggressive than women, both were mostly polite and nice. We met a lot of people we could see ourselves dating or at least being friends with. The pos-

sibility #HitMe offers with the categories is very helpful and probably a big improvement from other dating apps.

We think everyone who’s at least a little bit curious should try it. At the very least, you’ll have fun. If you’re lucky, you’ll find friends or maybe even love.

We can’t ignore that dating apps are still based in physical attraction at first, but isn’t life based on it, too? If you get to know a person through the app, it’s

really a very similar experience, and looks are even less important than face-to-face as you can only see a couple pictures.

So, try it! Have fun and mingle! And don’t forget to share your experiences through our websites and social networks. Did you meet your current partner through a dating app? Maybe a good friend? Or was is a disaster with a total creep?

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AND THE OSCAR GOES TO...

BEST OSCARS NIGHT STYLES PHOTOS BY MARK SELIGER 38 SUIT - MARCH 2015

Oscars night is also the most fashionable night of the year. Sadly, women’s style usually gets all the attention and men in their suits get forgotten. Here in Suit, we like to watch the red carpet and wish for the expensive tuxedos, bowties and three-pieces. Fortunately, Vanity Fair’s After Party has a resident photographer, Mark Seliger, that takes the most astonishing pictures of every who attends Hollywood’s most wanted party of the year. Here we have a selection of those pictures, showing the men who rocked the most famous red carpet in the world.

From left to right: Michael Keaton (nominated for Best Actor), Eddie Redmayne (winner for Best Actor), David Oyelowo (Selma), Alejandro G. Iñarritu (winner for Best Director, Best Movie), Chiwetel Ejiofor (nominated last year for Best Actor), J.K. Simmons (winner for Best Actor in a Supporting Role), Neil Patrick Harris (host of the 87th Academy Awards) and actor Robert Pattinson.

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The future of film:

18 stars of the future

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Keanu Reeves turned 50 this week, proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that the actors we grew up with are getting on a bit and we’re going to need, like Gremlins, a new batch. Who will lead the future of film? Well, here are the young up-and-comers that we think have their biggest hits and best work ahead of them. Some are absolute beginners; others have a string of hits behind them already, but all are on an upward curve...

Maika Monroe

The story so far: The Guest, Labor Day Coming up: The 5th Wave Adam Wingard’s black comedy thriller The Guest will alert Hollywood talent scouts to Maika Monroe’s qualities.

In it, she brings smarts and wit to the scream queen role, standing up to Dan Stevens’ beefcake commando home invader. In fact, with YA still being where it’s at for up-and-comers, her presence in upcoming alien invasion The 5th Wave hints that she’s already on their radar. Her striking Chloë Sevigny-meets-Amber Heard looks should be adorning the cover of magazines near you soon.

Tye Sheridan

The story so far: The Tree Of Life, Mud, Joe Coming up: Dark Places, Last Days In The Desert, Scouts Vs. Zombies The 17 year-old actor quotes James Dean on his Twitter profile and whisper it quietly, but there’s a little of Dean in the young Texan. Possessing a brooding intensity and focus that sets him apart from the Logan Lermans and Douglas Booths of the Hollywood firmament, he can fix you with a bruised defiance that’ll pin you to your seat. In his three films to date, he’s stood toe-totoe with actors of the calibre of Brad Pitt, Nicolas Cage and Matthew McConaughey and never once looked out of his depth. Next up he’s a young Corey Stoll in Dark Places.

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Chadwick Boseman

The story so far: 42, Persons Unknown, The Kill Hole Coming up: Get On Up, Draft Day, Gods Of Egypt This guy may not be a household name in this country yet, given that his biggest hit so far was a baseball film that hardly anyone here saw, but look out for some serious change in that status soon. He dares step into the snazzy shoes, dazzling suits and velvet cloak of James Brown in Get On Up, and he’ll soon be playing Thoth, God Of Knowledge in the Egyptian pantheon – which means he’d be really useful to have on your pub quiz team.

Definitely one to watch.

From tv to the big screen

Kiernan Shipka

The story so far: Mad Men, Carriers, Flowers In The Attic Coming up: The Legend Of Korra, Mad Men Shipka, a child acting “prodigy” according to Mad Men creator Matt Weiner, is also a 14 year-old fashion genius judging by her unfailing style every time she leaves the house. With the

end of Mad Men creeping nearer, it’ll be interesting to see where she takes her talents after growing up with the character she’s played unbelievably well on the AMC hit show.

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John Boyega

The story so far: Attack The Block, Half Of A Yellow Sun, 24: Live Another Day Coming up: Star Wars: Episode VII

Dylan O`Brien

Maisie Williams

Coming up: The Maze Runner

Coming up: The Falling, Game Of Thrones

The story so far: The Internship, Teen Wolf (TV)

Dylan O’Brien provoked fan frenzy as Teen Wolf’s sass-filled Stiles, a high-schooler who just happens to be best mates with a werewolf (he even repeated the trick as the Evil Stiles character, despite skin tones that would look unhealthy on an anaemic goth), and he’s got Maze Runner (and potentially its sequels) upcoming, so

The story so far: Game Of Thrones, The Olympic Ticket Scalper

At 15 years old, Williams was the youngest person to ever win the Best Supporting Actress Portal Award for her performance in Game of Thrones.

She shines as Arya Stark, increasingly one of the most powerful and compelling characters in the series, and, still only 17, is beginning to break into film too. She has the lead role in Carol “Dreams Of A Life” Morley’s next

his seat at the MTV Movie Awards should be assured for a few years yet.

Make no mistake though: he’s a genuine talent who can trade on a lot more than those chiselled looks. Expect to see plenty of him. Especially if he gets out of that maze.

film, The Falling, and seems as determined as her Thrones character to make her own way in the world. Williams is a lot less murderous though, which is probably for the best.

Boyega stood out among a talented young cast in Attack The Block, towering among them like, er, a tower block under attack by aliens. But the offers were slow to come in following that break, and it’s only with the recent news that he’s been cast in a certain sci-fi sequel that we really felt he’d

landed the sort of role he deserves. At least, we’re assuming that’s what he now has given the rumours that he is a major character. But considering how close-mouthed the Star Wars people are, however, he might be playing Second Stormtrooper On The Left and we wouldn’t know it.

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Miles Teller

Hollywood’s new gentlemen

The story so far: That Awkward Moment, 21 & Over, The Spectacular Now Coming up: Insurgent, The Fantastic Four, Two Night Stand, La La Land, Bleed For This

Theo James

Ansel Elgort

The story so far: Divergent, Underworld: Awakening, The Inbetweeners Movie

The story so far: The Fault In Our Stars, Divergent, Carrie

Coming up: London Fields, Franny, Insurgent Having started acting professionally only four years ago, James has already made an impression in Downton Abbey (where he died suddenly while bonking Lady Mary) and broken into film in a big way. He has blogs dedicated to his eyebrows and just about every other part of his body, and now he’s trying to ensure the hype for his talent reaches the same level. His leading role in the Divergent franchise should help, but we’re most interested to see what he manages in London Fields and Franny.

Daisy Ridley The story so far: Mr Selfridge, Silent Witness Coming up: The Inbetweeners 2, Star Wars: Episode VII, Scrawl

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Coming up: Men, Women & Children, Insurgent He launched himself with the underrated Rabbit Hole and stole scenes in Footloose, but it was The Spectacular Now that really put Teller on the map and helped us forgive him for Project X. Adept with comedy and drama, he made an interesting antagonist in Divergent (and soon its sequels) and is soon set to stretch himself (sorry) as Reed Richards / Mr Fantastic in The Fantastic Four.

Is it lazy to compare Ridley to Knightley just because she’s gorgeous, British and fitting in a Star Wars movie early in her career? Maybe, but the comparison is there. Her casting sent fans running to their TV box sets as the easiest way of seeing her work to date, but the best is definitely yet to come

Elgort will have only four complete features under his belt by the end of the year, but he’s already received a good amount of attention for The Fault In Our Stars in particular, which saw him land the most interesting role in a rom-dram that proved a huge teen hit. Unless his quick rise to the big leagues goes catastrophically to his head (which seems unlikely), a role in Jason Reitman’s next film and a few more seriously conflicted appearances in the Divergent saga should give him a career to envy. Of course, that’s all assuming he doesn’t decide to run away and become a DJ instead. in this case. Hey, they’re planning another Pirates film, right? Someone call the casting agent and let’s make this comparison even stronger!

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Joey King

The story so far: Ramona And Beezus, White House Down, Fargo (TV), Wish I Was Here

Kaitlyn Dever

Brie Larson

The story so far: Short Term 12, The Spectacular Now, Justified

The story so far: Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, Short Term 12, Don John

Coming up: Men, Women & Children, The Greens Are Gone Dever was a standout even by the high standards of Short Term 12, where she made an unlikely story about an octopus and a shark into one of the most moving scenes in the film, and she stole every scene in which she appeared in TV’s Justified. We’ll soon see her in Jason Reitman’s next, and then she has a couple of interesting-sounding drama.

Coming up: The Gambler, Trainwreck, Room

Coming up: The Sound And The Fury, Lockheed, Stonewall The hardest-working 15 year-old in the business, Joey King has played the sassy daughter in White House Down, Crazy, Stupid, Love, Wish I Was Here and Fargo. If she maintains her current, Chloë Grace Moretz-like trajectory she should soon migrate from on-screen chores and groundings to more challenging terrain. She’s been acting since the age of six, so she’s no stranger to big movie sets (she popped up as a young Talia al Ghul in The Dark Knight Rises) and the demands of TV work, and should be a presence on both for years to come.

She was good in Scott Pilgrim (where she did all her own singing too, folks) but it was Short Term 12 that established Brie Larson as an actress to watch. A masterpiece of understated, well-nigh invisible acting, she conveyed a whole heap of inner turmoil and genuine trauma with often barely a twitch of her muscles. She’s since been snapped up for a new Judd Apatow film, Rupert Wyatt’s The Gambler and literary adaptation Room, based on Emma Donoghue’s traumatising novel.

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British are coming!

to plan for Taron Egerton, Matthew Vaughn’s next film will be the one to catapult him to fame. Vaughn has a proven eye for talent – he gave Daniel Craig his first major lead, and spotted Chloe Grace Moretz and Aaron Taylor-Johnson – so we’re expecting great things of Egerton. On the evidence of the trailer, he’s comfortable sharing the screen with Oscar winner Colin Firth and adept at acting like he owns the place even when he’s out of his depth. Should be good training for Hollywood.

Jamie Blackley

The story so far: uwantme2killhim, Snow White And The Huntsman, The Fifth Estate Coming up: If I Stay, Kids In Love Blackley’s been decent in sometimes shaky films thus far, but let’s not tar him with the Fifth Estate brush; after all, he’s horrendously young because he was born in 1991. If I Stay could, if it works, deliver swoony teen romance that falls somewhere between The Notebook and Twilight – and if it does, it should launch Blackley into the realm of the mop haired, dreamyeyed heartthrobs that the kids seem to like these days.

Taron Egerton

The story so far: Inspector Lewis, The Smoke Coming up: Kingsman: The Secret Service, Testament Of Youth, Legend Sometimes it only takes one role, and if all goes

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Jack O`Connell

The story so far: Eden Lake, Harry Brown, Skins, 300: Rise Of An Empire, Starred Up Coming up: Unbroken, ‘71, Tulip Fever, Section 6 If a lot of British actors err on the posh side, look no further than Jack O’Connell to represent the rest of us. His breakthrough, Starred Up, saw him at the tough-guy end of the spectrum, snarling and wary in a hostile world.

His world will get even more hostile in Angelina Jolie’s next directorial effort, Unbroken, where O’Connell landed the plum role of the late Louis Zamperini, and he’s set to follow that with Joe Cornish’s

Section 6 and Justin Chadwick’s period piece Tulip Fever. Before that he’s a squaddie on the run in Yann Demange’s pulsing Troubles-era thriller ‘71. The Starred Up star is really seeing his star rise (sorry).

George MacKay

The story so far: For Those In Peril, Sunshine On Leith, How I Live Now, Private Peaceful Coming up: Captain Fantastic, Pride Such is the rapid progress of the Londoner (he only sounds Scottish) that he’s already starting to feel like a comforting screen presence, despite having only been nailing lead roles for a couple of years. “An old head on a young pair of shoulders” is how his Sunshine On Leith director Dexter Fletcher describes him, and he’s parlayed that worldly bearing into all his roles to date. The new Domhnall Gleeson?

Maybe so. He’ll certainly sweep up those thoughful heartthrob roles.

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Frame from the Hawkeye comic, by David Aja.

by Derek Thomas

DEREK’S RECOMMENDATION

the avenger you Hawkeye: should already love

I’ve never been a big fan of Hawkeye.

While I can talk for days about Thor and Iron Man, something about the team’s archer never clicked. Fraction and Aja have definitely come to the plate with a Hawkeye that I do like, and that I want to read more about.

Writer Fraction has talked about how his approach to Hawkeye was that he’s “the Avenger that’s Just A Dude.” It’s that concept that he builds this entire issue around, tying everything to that one theme and fitting it all together nicely. When you get right down to it, Hawkeye #1 is a comic about a guy dealing with two problems: His landlord’s hassling him and his dog needs to go to the vet. Even though they’re amped up a little, those are Just A Dude problems, and in almost any other comic they’d be the most frustrating thing in the world to read about. Nobody wants to see Thor or Superman trying to fix a busted air conditioner, because those guys have the ability to go out to space or punch out mad gods from the aeons when Earth was young. Here, though, those problems set the tone for the human being who has to deal with them.

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In Fraction’s work, you get the feeling that Hawkeye is what he’s doing between issues of Avengers; that he’s a guy who finishes up super-heroing for the day and heads home to his apartment. Not because he’s designed to make the character easier for the movie audience to relate to, but for the simple fact that he doesn’t have a helicarrier or a billion-dollar robotics corporation or an eternal mead hall in the Golden Realm of Asgard to go back to.

The concept of “Hawkeye on his days off” is an interesting choice. Hawkeye’s just Clint Barton in a suit — an actual suit with a shirt and tie —, dealing with things on a relatively low-key level. Rather than, say, the Loki level that he has to deal with at his day job.

Aja gives Clint Barton a sort of rumpled weariness in response to all the hassles that life’s presenting him. Somehow it fits with a guy who’s seen everything up to and including alternate dimensions, but also casts Clint in a pretty distinctive light. In a lot of ways, the artwork by Aja and colorist Matt Hollingsworth makes Hawkeye feel less like a traditional super-hero and more like a sort of pulpy detective character. For him, everything that happens in the book is a pain, but it’s something he deals with because he wants to help the people around him, to the degree that he’s driven to do so even on his days off from literally saving the world.

It’s solid stuff, and “Avenger by day, Jim Rockford by night” is a concept I can get behind.

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