Live Your Best Life
A WRINKLE IN TIME
MY BEST LIFE
Storm Reid The ascendant adolescent on the importance of Oreos and embracing your power. BEST “PINCH ME” MOMENT Booking the role
Left: Oprah’s ensemble for the planet Camazotz. “I saw Mrs. Which as a kind of energy,” says Delgado. “She’s a star in the sky. I wanted her costumes to play with ideas of metal and light.” Right: The cast and crew spent two weeks filming on the South Island of New Zealand. “I couldn’t keep up with Mindy and Reese there,” says Oprah. “They told me, ‘First, we’re going to a yoga place. And then we’re taking a helicopter. And then we’re hiking. And then we’re going on a boat ride.’ They squeezed all the juice out of that orange!”
of Meg Murry! After an audition process that took about a month, my agent finally told my mom to expect one more phone call. We didn’t know what was going on— until Ava DuVernay called from an unknown number to say I’d gotten the part. Mind blown.
BEST ADVICE Don’t waste energy on things you can’t change. Oprah told me that one day when we were having a conversation about my weird fear of being tall—I’m already 5'4"! Instead of putting negative energy out into the universe about something that’s set in stone, like my height, she said I should turn that energy into something positive and use it to make my dreams come true. So if I end up being seven feet, then I’ll be seven feet.
BEST ON-SET SNACK I’m a cookie girl. They were in my trailer, at the catering table— everywhere! My favorite are mint Oreos, which nobody in my family likes—so I get to keep them all for myself.
BEST REASON TO JOURNEY THROUGH TIME To meet my ancestors. My mom just got a DNA kit, and now my sister and I want one, too, so we can learn more about where we come from. It’s kind of like time traveling. —AS TOLD TO JOSEPH ZAMBRANO MARCH 2018
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Above: Oprah greets the crew while shooting a scene on the planet Orion—home to a seer known as the Happy Medium (played by Zach Galifianakis), who lives in a cave. The cast had to walk on massive scaffolding (like the crosslike structure behind Oprah), hence the wire rig attached to her costume for balance.
