A Power-packed affair! Vanity Fair launches it's 2018 Hollywood Issue

By Ramsha Akhtar

on January 26, 2018

Vanity Fair's Hollywood Issue has always been the one of the most looked out for cover. With Hollywood currently facing a time of tumult with sexual harassment allegations surfacing up against A-listers such as Kevin Spacey, Harvey Weinstein, James Franco and many more... it's now more than ever that many are speaking up about the dark side of the show business.

This year's Hollywood Issue is one such platform where A-listers featured on the cover, came together to address the unaddressed. Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Tom Hanks, Zendaya, Michael B. Jordan, Jessica Chastain, Claire Foy, Michael Shannon, Harrison Ford, Gal Gadot and Robert De Niro. Ex-editor Graydon Carter too featured on the cover. Although he stepped down in September, he remained involved with the Hollywood Issue.

These A-listers have all given a memorable performance and their upcoming movies are one to look out for. Be it Witherspoon's and Kidman's Big Little Lies, Gadot's Wonder Woman, Hank's The Post, For's The Crown or Zendaya's The Greatest Showman, these celebrities have impacted the cinema with their outstanding performance.

Vanity Fair wrote: 'The films and TV shows represented by the actors in this year’s Hollywood Portfolio—which for the first time offers a behind-the-scenes look at the shoot—took the #MeToo movement in stride, offering strong women in leading roles, as well as strong men supporting them.

Here we have Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman summoning the women’s battle cry of Big Little Lies, alongside Tom Hanks as Ben Bradlee, the indispensable sidekick to The Post heroine Katharine Graham. There’s also Claire Foy and Gal Gadot, embodiments of their formidable characters, the Queen and Wonder Woman, and one possible future female president in the mix.

Oprah, who graces the cover in an all-black haute couture dress, became the first black woman to win the Golden Globes’ Cecil B. DeMille Award, caused a ripple with her empowering speech at the event, which led to calls for her to become 2020 President.

She said: 'I want all of the girls watching here now to know, that a new day is on the horizon.' That, it is.