THE FIVE-STAR WEEKEND Star Chloë Sevigny Covers HARPER’S BAZAAR’s May 2026 Issue

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Chloë Sevigny covers HARPER’S BAZAAR’s May 2026 The Beauty Issue, on newsstands May 5.
In an exclusive interview with Deputy Culture Director Laia Garcia-Furtado, Sevigny opens up about her three-decade long career as an It Girl and stepping further into the mainstream with THE FIVE-STAR WEEKEND, based on Elin Hildebrand’s novel, an eight-episode drama starring Jennifer Garner, premiering in July. It’s true that she almost passed on the role. “My agents sent it to me, and I was like, ‘This is too mainstream. My fans are not going to like it,’” she explains. But Sevigny read the scripts and thought they were “really strong. It’s really about a woman grieving and how she navigates that through friendships, and I know it sounds like such a sound bite, but I really feel there’s really something for everybody.”

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On the fashion looks fans don’t see: Although fashion fans can recall her most iconic looks off the top of their heads, she cheekily suggests we’ve not even seen the real goods. “Everyone’s always like, ‘Chloë’s style!’ but it’s like, none of you even know my style because you don’t see me every day! There’s very few paparazzi [shots] of me day in, day out or me going out to Sway once a week. Nobody sees all those outfits, sadly, and they’re really good.”

On balancing her “indie queen” identity with a desire to experiment: She’d love to do Broadway sometime: “I love musicals, but I’m not very good at singing. Maybe if Cole [Escola] was writing something new, that would be fun.” But, she explains, “I have a loyalty to my fans and what they’re expecting or want of me. I think that I have carved out something because of what I’ve stood for to people.”

On aging in Hollywood: “I don’t really feel like I’m a part of Hollywood,” she responds quickly. Of course! But as Sevigny sees it, the real problem is the unforgiving technology. “The more challenging aspects and more annoying aspects are the way we’re photographed now: phones, public, the lighting on the red carpet, the lighting on the runways. Nobody’s doing anybody any favors,” she says. “There’s no more glamour or nuance to it. As an aging woman, it sounds less enjoyable to be a part of all that, because it just feels really vulnerable and exposed, and then you’re just being picked apart on the internet.”

On working to reconnect with her youthful curiosity: “I need to find the essence of why I love things again because it’s getting very clouded,” she says. “I was in a cycle of going to the movies, art shows, reading books, listening to new music … and then it was Covid, and then I had a child, and now I feel like I’m just outside of all of that.” But maybe the secret to her It factor is simply not giving up so easily, that the desire to be in touch with the world is not just to “keep up” but her innate way of being in the world. “I think it’s going to be just experiencing things, you know what I mean?” she says. “It’s not going to happen in the phone.”

On filming The Five-Star Weekend alongside Jennifer Garner and Regina Hall, among others: “We were really like open books. Everybody overshared, and there was an ease and a comfort between us. With the mourning and the grief in the show, there was a lot of support for one another. It was a really good feeling.”

On how her upbringing shaped her sense of self: “My mom and my dad were so supportive and really wanted to give us a sense of security,” she says. It was a house where creativity and self-expression were valued, but there were still rules to follow. (When Sevigny pierced her nose as a teenager, she was briefly kicked out. “I was like, ‘Fine, I just won’t live here anymore,’ so then they let me come back.”) She adds, “I’m pretty normal, and I’m not conservative politically, but I have a nice background, and I’m a polite and well-mannered person. My mom is very compassionate and very considerate of others, and that was drilled into me, so I think having that foundation was a place for me to have my wild outcome.”

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