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Cosmopolitan
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Cosmopolitan
Who Is Manny Jacinto's Wife, Dianne Doan?
Apologies to everyone who's been drooling over Manny Jacinto's Cosmo Centerfold, but the Freakier Friday star is, indeed, off the market. He's been with his wife, fellow actor Dianne Doan, for well over a decade, having met in a dance class before Manny even started acting. However! The two are so low-key about their relationship that you may not have even realized they're together, which is why I think it's time for a deep dive. Ahead, everything you need to know about Manny's wife Dianne, including how they met, when they got married, and what makes them such a good match. First things first... Yep, that's right. Like Manny, Dianne is an actor, and she's best known for playing Kora in season 7 of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., as well as Mai Ling in Cinemax's Warrior. You also might recognize her as Lonnie (the daughter of Mulan and Li Shang) from the Descendants franchise or Molly Tran from Grey's Anatomy. Before breaking into acting, Dianne made her living as a dancer—and in fact, it was in a dance class that she first met Manny. As she recounted during a 2023 interview, '[We] were dancers, and we met in a hip-hop fundamentals training program called Soldiers in Vancouver.' Speaking of which... Also like Manny, Dianne is Canadian, and during an 2024 interview, she spoke about how moving from Vancouver to Los Angeles helped her develop her confidence as an actor. 'When I came to America, the first thing I noticed was an innate confidence in this culture,' she said. 'Only in the last couple of years have I found my voice and feel like I matter and am making room for myself.' While it's not clear how long Dianne dated Manny before he popped the question, it's obvious that he put a lot of thought into the proposal. When asked about the engagement during an interview with Vulture, Manny said, 'I took her to places that really meant a lot to us. Where I first met her, where I first saw her, where we had our first date, and where we had our first dance class.' He added, 'I took her through five different places, and at the last place I had our families waiting and I proposed.' It's not clear exactly when they got married, but during his Cosmo Blind Date episode, Manny confirmed that he and Dianne tied the knot all the way back in 2021. During his Centerfold interview with Cosmo, Manny revealed that a 'great date' for his wife would involve a home-cooked meal (though apparently, he's not much of a chef himself). 'I wish I could cook, but she comes from a family that does a lot of cooking, and a lot of the connection has been made at the dinner table,' he explained. Her ideal meal? 'For Dianne, it would be something Vietnamese because she's Vietnamese,' he continued. 'Whether it be pho or Bún Bò or something that's comfort food for her.'
Cosmopolitan
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Cosmopolitan
Manny Jacinto 'Freakier Friday' Interview
Burt Reynolds's 1972 centerfold in Cosmopolitan was, simply put, a major moment in pop culture. It was our magazine's—any magazine's—first time featuring a man in that kind of spread, and it cemented Burt's status as one of America's sexiest men. In homage, we're continuing the Cosmo Centerfold series, in which we showcase the hottest celebs of our time. You'll have to pick up an actual Cosmo to see it in the flesh. Enjoy! There are lots—nay, tons—of reasons to swoon over Manny Jacinto: his acting roles, which range from lovable doofus Jason Mendoza on The Good Place to a Sith Lord on The Acolyte to his latest, Lindsay Lohan's British chef love interest in Freakier Friday, in theaters now. Then there are his dance moves, which would put every other person on any wedding dance floor to shame. Next, there are his cheekbones, which don't require an explanation if you're looking at these pictures (although I'll still note that they made the crew at his Cosmopolitan photo shoot gasp). But maybe his most swoonworthy quality is how hard he rides for his wife, fellow actor Dianne Doan, which became very apparent during our chat earlier this spring. If you want to have one of those 'I hope this love finds me' moments, keep reading. I gotta give all thanks to my wife, Dianne, because she got my skin routine locked down. There's cleanser, but then you have the SOS Spray, which is a toner I love from Tower 28. And then, if I'm feeling spicy, some gua sha action with some oil, Kypris. And then Kypris serum. And then we got some moisturizer for the eyes and moisturizer for the face. The last thing has to be sunscreen. But honestly, what pisses me off is how some guys, they just have perfect skin and they just do a bar soap. A great outfit. An outfit that feels comfortable but also, like, is this a statement? It's hard to balance both. You wear something that looks incredible, but a lot of the times, you can't even sit down because it's so tight or the proportions are off, but you can mix both. I feel like a superhero. Jungkook. I was a dancer, and I have this theory. Jungkook apparently trained in Los Angeles when he was younger, and I think we almost crossed paths and trained in the same studio around the same time. I mean, he is, like, eight years younger than me, but I saw videos and pictures of him training at the same studio. And I was like, wait, when was this? And this was around the same time, like, summer of 2012, 2011. I think he's one of the best dancers on the team. But I also just dig his music. It's really all about the face, to be honest. When you're on the dance floor, it doesn't really matter how well you move your body. I mean, sometimes it does, sure. But if people see you having a good time and they see it in your face, they connect with that and they find so much joy in that. When somebody's a good dancer, but they're completely blank up top, there's a disconnect. You gotta feel it. It's all in the face. But also, loosen up those hips. I think a lot of the guys tend to use the arms a lot or think it's leg movement. But hips don't lie. A Walk to Remember. I think I first saw it in eighth grade. I remember seeing it with one of my closest friends during the time, and a girl that he was trying to see and date along with that girl's friend. So it was like a double date. The double date did not go that well. But I remember watching that film and just, like, bawling my eyes out. I think they end in a devastation. The ones that resonate for me end in a devastation. It's not super devastating, but in The Notebook when they die in the hospital bed together. They get to spend their life together, but they pass away together. And Titanic, not enough room on the board. I think the best ones end in tragedy a little bit. I'm such a cheeseball but a great, two-hour walk in the park at night. I love being outside. There's an inhibition to walking side by side and taking in nature and space and then just being able to be vulnerable and talk about anything and everything. I think for her it'd be a really incredible, well-cooked meal at home. I wish I could cook, but she comes from a family that does a lot of cooking, and a lot of the connection has been made at the dinner table. For Dianne, it would be something Vietnamese because she's Vietnamese. Whether it be pho or Bún Bò or something that's comfort food for her. Or I would try and do something Filipino and bring that in to feel like it's home. Have you ever tried Filipino spaghetti? Filipinos, they like to have sugar on everything. So instead of tomato paste, they use this thing called banana ketchup. I think it might be banned in the States now. It's essentially just ketchup, but it has almost a banana flavoring, and it's very sweet. So you put that in the spaghetti, and to some, it turns them off completely. But some people really love it. It's a love-hate. But I grew up with it, so I love it. Yes, I think it can be. It's just learning one's patterns in relationships. I remember reading early on about the honeymoon phase and how that kind of dies off and how you can keep it going if you want something more meaningful. I think you can learn about different aspects of love, but it's another thing to actually adopt those practices. I was reading All About Love by bell hooks, and there's a definition about what love is, and I'm butchering this but it's essentially being willing to make yourself uncomfortable to make the other person comfortable, to be willing to go through anxiety or to go through a tough time in order to make the other person feel better. Letting her know where I am. It was things like, 'Hey, I'm on the plane heading out' or 'Hey, I've landed' or 'Hey, I got home okay—I'm at the hotel.' Things like that. She's a part of you. You should let that part know where you are. You're not there yet, but a good piece of advice that was given to me was to go to couples therapy before you need it. It goes for therapy in general. You don't want to be going to couples therapy when you're in a really bad spot because sometimes it might be too late. It helps with communication and figuring each other out, having that extra person. That it's work. You have this idea, especially in all these movies that we watch, that it's gonna be a happy ending forever, but there's a reason why it ends on the happy ending, because there's other chapters that unfold. It takes work, time, and communication, but it's worth it. If it was easy, everybody would stay married. But it's not easy. A wife guy? Yeah. I mean, just from my interpretation of what that means. Like, just having a long-term partner. Is that it? Yeah. You're 100 percent. Giving them their flowers, literally and metaphorically. As simple as getting them flowers, it's just a small action that can go a long way. In the beginning when we first got together, I was like, Man, this is such a waste of money. Like, why am I buying these things that won't even last? That's actually the beautiful part about it. They aren't gonna last, so you can keep getting them for her. But metaphorically, giving them their flowers, complimenting her, and making her feel good about herself and reminding her that she's the best, that life is so much better with her. She would really love this guy from Freakier Friday. He's a chef. My wife loves food. Everybody loves a good cook. And he can dance, but he gives off a Hugh Grant vibe. Charming. A little self-deprecating but charming. The biggest thing that helped me was asking myself, Am I responding to how I'm feeling or am I actually responding to what they're saying? So it can be as simple as, Am I hungry and is this why I'm acting like this? Or did I not get enough sleep? Am I actually responding to what they're saying properly and giving it the full attention? Because I noticed that if I don't get a good amount of sleep or if I'm hungry, if I'm having a bad day, that gets passed on to our relationship. But love is work. You gotta work at it. But it's the most beautiful thing and you get the most special moments. And life is just so much more happy when you can share it with somebody. Top look: Lu'u Dan vest, John Varvatos top, Willy Chavarria pants, Hereu boots, Prounis necklace and rings, Title of Work (top) and Peyote Bird bracelets, watch from For Future Reference, Artemas Quibble belt, Presley Oldham keychain. Styled by Brandon Tan. Grooming by Kimberly Bragalone using Balmain Hair and Kypris Beauty.
Cosmopolitan
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Cosmopolitan
Nicholas Alexander Chavez Talks 'Monsters' and 'I Know What You Did Last Summer'
Burt Reynolds's 1972 centerfold in Cosmopolitan was, simply put, a major moment in pop culture. It was our magazine's—any magazine's—first time featuring a man in that kind of spread, and it cemented Burt's status as one of America's sexiest men. In homage, we're continuing the Cosmo Centerfold series, in which we showcase the hottest celebs of our time. You'll have to pick up an actual Cosmo to see it in the flesh. Enjoy! Sure, playing a convicted murderer on television isn't the most obvious way to put yourself in 'heartthrob' territory, but Nicholas Alexander Chavez's portrayal of Lyle Menendez in Netflix's Monsters got him there—and his role in the upcoming I Know What You Did Last Summer will cement it. When Monsters launched last September, it earned 2.7 billion minutes watched in its first week on the streaming service. The fan cams quickly followed, and one of them, where Nicholas is seen shirtless multiple times in character as Lyle, racked up 6.8 million views on TikTok. He and his costar Cooper Koch became the internet boyfriends of the fall. When I catch him in the spring for this interview, he's still coming down from the whirlwind of it all. He tells me about losing his anonymity overnight, why he didn't consider himself a romantic until recently, and how he and his girlfriend, Victoria Abbott, are protecting their relationship in this era. I see a lot of people doing the double take whenever I'm out to restaurants or that sort of thing. It's very funny when I get shown videos of myself that are taken from one or two football fields away. Always knowing consciously that you're probably being watched is a bit strange. You feel people's eyes on you in a different way. And it happens at odd times. I went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art the other day to look at some artwork, and I had a parade of people who were kind of following me around the museum, which was a bit funny. Like, there's there's an actual Picasso in that room. I'm doing none of that. I'm smoking American Spirits and I'm hanging out with my friends. And I'm trusting my judgment. This shoot was fun too, because you see yourself in so many different contexts. We did that cowboy-esque look and then we also had the football pads. It's just interesting to see your avatar in so many different fonts. When I have have a finely curated playlist blasting through my speakers. I also feel really confident whenever I'm playing poker. I host games at my house and I have some of my friends over and we just listen to music and we kick back. I also feel a ton of confidence when I'm on set. There's a freedom that comes with knowing that you're behaving as someone who is not you, and that separation gives you the permission to be able to behave in a really uninhibited way. Very. More than anything else, it's consideration. It's the way that you consider the people in your life. And I think you can be romantic in a lot of different relationships because you can consider everyone in your life. Oftentimes, romance comes through in very small details that no one else would pick up on—by taking the time to learn the finer details about a person and what they like and dislike and what makes them comfortable and happy and then having enough forethought to make sure that those are considerations that are kept in mind. Then when you find someone who does that for you, it can be a really rewarding feeling. My girlfriend really likes it when I call her 'honey.' I just try to remember little things like that. Sometimes it's not even something that gets said explicitly outright. I can just tell that I do something and then I can see her eyes light up in a really special way that only I would be able to notice. And then I log that, like, Okay, she likes that. I think it can absolutely be taught, because I don't know that I would have identified as a romantic until very, very recently. But I think that when you meet the right person who brings that out of you, then it can be taught for sure. My girlfriend and I were friends for a very, very long time before we started officially dating. There is probably no such thing as taking it too slow in terms of getting to know someone. And what I found is that the person who you end up seeing romantically truly becomes the most important person in your life. Your conception of family changes as you get older. First, it's Mom and Dad and your brothers and your sisters. And then as you become an adult, you realize, Oh, this person who I see every day and who we wake up with and have breakfast together, this is my family. Really taking the time to get to know who this person is and getting to know their heart and the way that they see the world and allowing them to show who they can be for you in a lot of different contexts is also helpful. My girlfriend has had opportunity after opportunity to show me how much she loves me and smashes it every single time. I'm a very avoidant person, so it really took effort on her part. She may tell you a very different story. She'd probably tell you that she was in the trenches for a long time trying to get it to work out. I was a coldhearted cynic. We were friends for, like, a year and a half. I don't trust most people as far as I can throw them. It takes a long time for me to get to know someone and get to know them well. People are incredibly complex and deep and have so many different pockets of their humanity and of their personality, you can say very quickly whether or not you like a person. But in order for someone to get close to you, it takes so much time. And she dug her heels in. I want to do some kind of adventure. I want to either go on a road trip or I want to book a flight, something that really changes our environment or our scenery. So it'd probably be: pack a bag and then we get in the car, take the top down, we blast some good music that we like. We drive maybe two hours outside of the city. Maybe we find somewhere coastal or somewhere kind of remote. We're both such huge film buffs and we're big foodies. So I'd probably try to find a nice dinner place for us. But really, the best dates can't be planned. It's the kind of thing where you get out of town and then you see what there is to do, and then you let your heart and your creativity lead the way in terms of how the night's gonna play out. You certainly don't want to go on any first date that makes it difficult to talk to each other. I'm always driven crazy by people who think that going to the movies is a good first date. That's insane to me. Right. Because it's like, hopefully I'm interested enough by you that I enjoy talking to you, that you have interesting things to say. To completely shut that out by going and staring at a screen for two hours is definitely a bad first date. In L.A., there's this great beach called Dockweiler. I took a couple first dates there. It's nighttime. It's on the beach. There's a good bonfire going. You bring out the blankets. It requires a little bit of forethought and having your act together. And both of you are in a place that, like, you don't really go all that often. Part of it is making sure the context feels special. But you should also do stuff that you like. I love a good bonfire, and I love being by the water. I think that there's a fine line between considering someone else and then also taking stock in what you enjoy because it's the other person's first opportunity to meet you as well. We're probably each choosing a movie that we want to show the other person or we're watching something new that neither of us have seen before. We get recommendations from friends all the time. We have a rolling watch list. We have a hot tub, so we might go out to the hot tub and hang out and kick it for a little while. I also live with my best friend, and so whenever we're having a romantic time, my best friend will walk in, and then he'll just start singing, 'Just the three of us. We can make it if we try.' My younger brother also just moved in with me, so we're one big happy family. I think it's interesting to see the way that different people have responded to this. It's very one-sided in terms of what you see. Because, of course, you see the people who have no respect for it and they're super willing to just reach out regardless of whether or not they're married or have a fiancé. And so that's really quite crazy. But I think for us, we know that it comes with the territory. I'm an artist first and foremost. It is so foundational and fundamental to who I am as a human being. With that comes attention and sometimes a lot of it, and that can feel quite flattering at times, of course, but that's not the way that day-to-day life works. Day-to-day life works in the sense of, I have to come home, I have scripts to memorize, I'm stressed out about this scene. Where are we going for dinner? Hey, do you mind picking my brother up from the airport? There's a lot of shiny objects, but both of us are so on the same page in terms of what is most valuable to us in our life, and it's the art we make and the family we have. So we protect that pretty viciously. Yeah. And also the most rewarding part of it. Probably to not be careless with it. Styled by Brandon Tan. Grooming by Melissa DeZarate for Oribe.
