Tyla, Finn Wolfhard, Sam Nivola and More Toast to the ‘Power of the Youth' at Variety's Young Hollywood Party
The class of 2025 brought serious star power, with global sensation Tyla, 'Stranger Things' favorite Finn Wolfhard, and 'The White Lotus' standout Sam Nivola leading the charge. But this year's Impact Report cast an even wider spotlight, recognizing a dynamic range of up-and-comers — from 'Anora' star Mark Eydelshteyn to rapper 2Hollis, gymnastics icon Simone Biles and beyond.
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Digital creators, TikTok trendsetters and Hollywood's brightest mingled on the lawn, sipping, snapping selfies and soaking up the scene. 'The Pitt' stars Supriya Ganesh and Shabana Azeez, 'Wicked's' Marissa Bode, 'Monsters: The Lyle & Erik Menendez Story' actor Nicholas Alexander Chavez, and internet faves Brittany Broski and Reece Feldman brought the energy. Musicians Ivan Cornejo, Sombr, and Remy Bond helped set the vibe as the night turned into a dance-fueled celebration of what's next in music, film and pop culture.
Tyla accepted her award thanking her team — most especially her glam squad, 'for getting me snatched on that cover' — for the honor. She had just finished teasing her next album on the red carpet, and caught up with her guests of honor, her father and brother.
'When I was younger, I did not know what I was doing, and I'm still figuring it out, but I had a lot of passion and a lot of belief in myself,' she said on stage. 'I thank my team for believing in me before there was proof that it was gonna work.' With a smile on her face and her award in hand, Tyla closed her speech with an affirmation: 'Power to the youth, power to the young creatives. We killing it, and we're gonna keep on killing it. We the future!'
Multi-platform recording artist and songwriter PinkPantheress kicked off the program earlier in the evening with her acceptance of the Variety Music Innovator of the Year presented by Sandisk award. Comedian and host Alec Flynn introduced the award-winning artist by making reference to the viral trend attached to her single 'Illegal' — a standout song on her second mixtape 'Fancy That.'
She also teased a collaboration with Jack Harlow, who recently appeared in one of her TikTok videos: 'Give me a date and I'll make sure it comes out on that date,' the singer told Variety's Angelique Jackson on the red carpet.
Wolfhard joked that he 'thought this was a roast' when he appeared on stage to accept his recognition, but ended up maneuvering the speech with ease and gratitude for his expansive career. The 22-year-old actor is the third 'Stranger Things' star to appear on a Young Hollywood cover, behind Sadie Sink and Noah Schnapp.
Nivola, meanwhile, utilized his time on stage to echo the same sentiments in his cover story: 'Just fucking make movies whenever you can.'
'I'm absolutely not the first person to say this, but we all have 4K cameras in our pockets and you can get a boom mic for whatever, 50 bucks. The people who came before us and innovated and revolutionized did not have access to even a quarter of the stuff that we have access to… I really just want to say, I hope that we can all kind of use those tools and and continue to make shit — preferably longer than 25 seconds.'Best of Variety
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