The HERO Summer Zine 2026
Film+TV
“I play sort of an evil stepmother in a fairytale” – Havana Rose Liu is all thriller, in conversation with Hunter Schafer
Getting techy
Will Price on reuniting with Luca Guadagnino for their upcoming AI-boom drama
Finneas tells Carey Mulligan about turning country club gloss into ominous beats
Camila Mendes is going from strength to strength – in conversation with Adria Arjona
Hapless romantics: Spike Fearn in conversation with Renée Zellweger
The man, the myth, the muscle
Art
How Arnold Schwarzenegger conquered bodybuilding, Hollywood and American politics
Liminal living
“I was looking at everything through the lens of [it]” – Finn Bennett can’t leave the Backrooms…
Dear England
Jacob Greenway on playing Jude Bellingham in the story of Southgate’s England
Liminal Living
You can now decorate your home in Backrooms wallpaper
Scene Setter
Rebekah Sherman-Myntti is a driving force in independent film
HERO USA Cover Story
Paul Anthony Kelly: America’s prince
red carpet live-feed
“It reminds you cinema is still a global language” – Rami Malek takes us to Cannes
The Stranger
Legendary director François Ozon on adapting Albert Camus’ languid sun-bleached novel
Father, Mother, Sister, Brother
Indya Moore on how working with Jim Jarmusch became a healing experience
Idiotka!
Nastasya Popov’s filmmaking proves the power of writing what you know
California Schemin’
“The guts they had” – Samuel Bottomley on playing a Dundee rapper chancing it as a Californian rapper
HERO 35 Cover Story
“Mind your mom and don’t take shit from anybody” – Dominic Sessa meets his teen idol, Johnny Knoxville
“You don’t have to scream to make it compelling”
Andrew Scott on filmmaking, emotion, and his SXSW judging role
Heroine 24 cover story
“It’s weird to be a part of something that you’ve been such a massive fan of” – Mckenna Grace in conversation with Joseph Zada
Passing of the torch
Heroine 24 Cover Story: Whitney Peak in conversation with Rachel Zegler