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Meet Joy Sunday, the actress who plays Bianca Barclay in Netflix's Wednesday
Following the immense success of Wednesday, Netflix's TV spin-off of The Addams Family, in 2022, the show has finally returned to our screens. The second season's part one is now streaming, while part two will air on September 3. Continuing the adventures of Wednesday Addams (played by Hollywood's gothic Gen Z 'It' girl, Jenna Ortega ), the show will even feature a cameo from Lady Gaga. Among the students at Nevermore Academy is the queen bee herself, Bianca Barclay, played by 28-year-old Joy Sunday. Advertisement Joy Sunday plays Bianca Barclay on Netflix's Wednesday. Photo: @joysunday/Instagram In the first season, we saw Wednesday and Bianca start off on the wrong foot after the former confidently challenged Bianca to a fencing match and lost. This time around, Sunday says we'll get to see a different side to Bianca. 'I'm really happy that people get to become more intimately acquainted with her history,' she told Glamour earlier this month. 'The Bianca that I met when I first got the script versus who she is now – there's such a difference. In season one, she's kind of built a wall and acts as if she doesn't need anything. But now we get to understand … the vulnerability and insecurities that she's facing.' Here's everything to know about Joy Sunday. Joy Sunday was raised in New York Joy Sunday is a rising star in the industry. Photo: @joysunday/Instagram Born in September 1996, Joy Sunday was raised in Staten Island, New York, by her parents, who moved from Nigeria to the US in the 1970s, per Glamour. Sunday says her love of performing spawned from her love of reading, which she inherited from her father: 'I would read books to imaginary kids in my room,' she told Glamour. 'That's where I learned my first sense of pacing, character, and presence.'
South China Morning Post
a day ago
- South China Morning Post
Why Asian women are reclaiming tradition with teeth blackening
When Vietnamese-American singer Sailorr's first live performances resurfaced online in late 2024, it attracted a lot of attention: not just for her hypnotic music, but for her distinctive black teeth. 'So I'm not the only one distracted by her mouth?' read a comment liked nearly 2,700 times under a video of one of her performances. Against Instagram's sea of bright-white veneers , Sailorr's dark smile isn't just a fashion statement: publicly practising teeth blackening is a homecoming, a cultural reclamation that she and other artists of Asian descent, including Molly Santana and Qui Yasuka, have been reviving in recent years. A new take on a centuries-old practice Teeth aren't a new canvas for self-expression. We've become used to seeing grills and gems everywhere since about the 1980s – the trend owes much to hip-hop culture's rich influence on fashion and music. Advertisement While less known globally, Asia's traditions of dental adornment are no less culturally profound. Teeth blackening, in particular, has been practised for centuries and was regarded as a rite of passage, a marker of beauty, adulthood and refinement across the region, especially in Vietnam and Japan. In Japan, aristocrats stained their teeth with iron filings and vinegar in a practice called ohaguro from the 11th to 19th centuries. In Vietnam, nhuộm răng dates back to the Hùng King era (2879-258 BC) and made use of betel, charcoal and beeswax. In both cases, the imposition of Western beauty standards during colonial times nearly erased the practice throughout the region, explains Dr Aida Yuen Wong, professor of art history at Brandeis University. 'In Vietnam, French colonial rule engendered new beauty standards. And though Japan was never colonised, authorities banned the practice in alignment with Western ideals, driven by a desire to avoid appearing as uncivilised.' Shunned into near extinction, teeth blackening was mostly preserved by the elders – until artists like Sailorr, and Japanese-American creatives Sukii Baby and Molly Santana, reclaimed the practice and inspired a new generation of women. Beauty trend and identity politics 'I'm Vietnamese-American, so I knew of teeth blackening,' says aspiring fashion designer Mou Isabel Phung. 'But when I saw Sailorr and Sukii Baby mixing such an old traditional practice into modern fashion, I knew I wanted to do it as well.'
South China Morning Post
2 days ago
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Meet 16-year-old Julia Butters, who stars in Freakier Friday with Lindsay Lohan
Julia Butters is only 16, but she has already built a Hollywood résumé any actor would envy. With experience working with Quentin Tarantino, Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg, Butters is now stepping into her first main character role as Harper Coleman in Freakier Friday alongside Lindsay Lohan , Jamie Lee Curtis and Chad Michael Murray Jamie Lee Curtis, Julia Butters, Lindsay Lohan, Sophia Hammons and Chad Michael Murray at the Los Angeles premiere of their film Freakier Friday on July 22. Photo: Reuters Butters made her acting debut in 2014 with an appearance in TV crime show Criminal Minds and delivered a noteworthy performance in her portrayal of Anna-Kat Otto, the sweet but anxious daughter in the sitcom American Housewife. Butters then got her breakout moment with a role in Tarantino's 2019 film Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood – a project that earned her a ticket to the Oscars, where she made headlines for bringing a turkey sandwich in her designer bag. Advertisement Here's what you need to know about Butters, one of Hollywood's most promising young actresses. She didn't know who Leonardo DiCaprio was before she worked with him Julia Butters worked with Leonardo DiCaprio on the set of Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood. Photo: @julia_butters/Instagram When Butters filmed Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood, she was only 10 – far too young to have seen any Tarantino films or recognise her A-list co-stars. In fact, at the premiere of her own movie, she had to leave during some age-inappropriate scenes. During her audition for the part of Trudi Fraser, Tarantino handed her all 21 pages of the scene and gave her an overview of the character. When he mentioned writing the script, the young actress responded with charming candour: 'Oh, you wrote it? Well done,' she recalled in an interview with Esquire. She was cast in The Fabelmans on her 12th birthday Julia Butters worked with her idol, director Steven Spielberg, on The Fabelmans. Photo: @julia_butters/Instagram
