Luca Guadagnino Directs Ayo Edebiri on the Cover of W MAGAZINE’s Directors Issue

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W Magazine released the second of three covers for its latest issue, Volume 2, The Directors Issue, featuring Ayo Edebiri in “Abandoned” directed by Luca Guadagnino. The shoot pays homage to Luca’s favorite actors from the ’60s, including Sophia Loren and Ingrid Bergman. Each year, The Director’s Issue highlights and celebrates some of the greatest and most talked about films over the last year.

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Ayo Edebiri on the role she was personifying for this cover shoot: “I’m an Italian widow…Or maybe I’m a mistress who has been jilted by her lover. Either way, I’m alone. In my villa. And to keep myself amused, I’m trying on all of my clothes and jewelry, and I’m wandering around the stunning home that I will have to leave behind.”

Luca Guadagnino on Edebiri’s star presence: “Ayo is a movie star in the real sense of bigness, and cinema, and excitement…She has a commitment toward performance that you rarely find now. She absolutely commands your gaze. She’s funny and she’s extremely beautiful—and that is a very rare combination.”

Ayo on getting lost in a character:  “The secret of acting that they don’t tell you is that when you’re playing a scene that’s meant to be freezing, it will be the hottest day of the year…And I’m supposed to be sad right now, but I love this cozy coat so much—how could I be anything but happy?”Guadagnino on his fear of and fascination with water: “I can’t swim…Being in a boat is quite fascinating and terrifying for me. I look at the sea and I see my certain demise: I will drown. But I also love the beauty of the water. It is a central contradiction in my life.”

W MAGAZINE’s Directors Issue is on stands March 11th. 

Directed by Luca Guadagnino
Written by Lynn Hirschberg
Styled by Sarah Moonves
Photographed by Luca Guadagnino

[Photo Credit: Luca Guadagnino for W Magazine]

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