There are a handful of the way you could have encountered Reece Feldman over the previous yr. Perhaps he confirmed up in your For Your Web page underneath the username @guywithamoviecamera, the place he brings viewers behind the scenes of movie and TV units, premieres, and award exhibits. Or maybe you got here throughout his photograph on “excessive style Twitter,” the place the 24-year-old has gained a current fan base due to his quirky and surprising purple carpet appears. The popularity Feldman is experiencing for the time being is a bit serendipitous—however that’s to not say he doesn’t deserve it. So many TikTokers are pushing the boundaries of dressing, or posting “day within the life” movies from their job, as Feldman started doing whereas engaged on actuality TV exhibits like The Actual Housewives of New Jersey after graduating from Tulane in 2020. However Feldman’s ability units, his soothing voice, and his guy-next-door demeanor units him other than the pack—and manufacturing studios have taken discover, hiring Feldman to create content material on their units.
These first short-form movies have since led to alternatives for Feldman on Not Okay, Scream VI, and the upcoming Starvation Video games prequel, The Ballad Of Songbirds and Snakes, for which he makes movies to drum up curiosity on social media. In between these productions, he stopped by the Academy Awards, Golden Globes, and varied film premieres, offering viral content material alongside the way in which. “Sure, there’s a critical aspect of style, however there’s additionally a aspect that’s enjoyable—and in that regard, style is like movie,” Feldman tells W over Zoom. “It’s a spectacle, and it evokes folks.” Beneath, Feldman reveals how a few of his viral appears got here to be, how he obtained Aubrey Plaza to stare at him for a TikTok, and the extraordinarily area of interest film style he hopes to make a mark on sooner or later.
When did you first uncover your love for films?
My grandfather and my dad have been all the time large film folks and, rising up, they confirmed me films that didn’t deal with me like a child; I really feel like plenty of children’ films educate and inform, however extra grownup movies present. I found that movie was how I may relate to the world. When my mother and father have been getting divorced, the one solace I ever discovered was in movie. It was how I used to be capable of perceive emotion, to narrate and empathize with others.
What’s your final dream?
If I received the lottery tomorrow, I might cease all the things and go instantly into pre-production on a few of my scripts. I wish to write and direct and that’s it. I might like to by no means must attend something or submit something once more. Properly, I might like to get to some extent the place I may submit and attend, however not as a result of I’ve to, as a result of I wish to. The purpose is to create my very own tales so that folks like me, who watch the Oscars yearly prefer it’s the Tremendous Bowl, can see me and assume, “I can do this.”
I wish to speak a little bit bit about your TikToks. How do you pitch these concepts to celebrities? For instance, do you simply method Aubrey Plaza on the purple carpet and ask, “Hey, can we stare at one another for a video?”
It relies upon. I do plenty of analysis beforehand to ensure I do know everybody’s consolation ranges. I’ll are available in with actually 100 concepts with the hopes of constructing three movies. With Aubrey, I do know she’s not going to say something, she received’t wish to learn something, however she’d be okay to look backwards and forwards.
Let’s transfer on to your model, for which you’ve been seen rather a lot currently. Have you ever all the time been taken with style?
Sure and no. My good friend Lulu and I received greatest dressed at camp—however I wouldn’t say I all the time had a superb sense of favor. I used to be all the time very opinionated about what I used to be carrying, even when it was unhealthy. I by no means let my mother and father choose issues out for me. However to their credit score, they let me experiment.
I’ve additionally all the time been obsessive about costuming in films and the significance it’s had on the true world. Diane Keaton modified style with Annie Corridor. After I noticed Indiana Jones after I was, like, eight, I made my dad get me a fedora. As I obtained older and began engaged on extra high-profile tasks, I seen, nearly all the time, the ladies dressed nicely. With males, it was simply “Black go well with, black go well with, blue go well with, black go well with.” Now, after I’m at occasions, I wish to ensure that I honor the work of the folks I respect. A great way to try this is by dressing the half.
Stroll me by way of your appears for the Critics’ Selection Awards and the Golden Globes. How did these come collectively?
I usually costume myself, however I labored with NBC and E! for the Golden Globes and so they gave me a styling stipend. I actually like the way in which Chloe Cherry from Euphoria attire, so I discovered her stylist, Tabitha Sanchez, and reached out on Instagram. She obtained me instantly. She understood what I wished, which was to be rooted in custom, however nonetheless on the market. She additionally understood that I like performance. I don’t wish to be uncomfortable. I need to have the ability to sleep in that look I wore.
As for my Critics’ Selection look, that got here collectively very last-minute. I discovered I used to be attending a few days earlier than, however fortunately I had this skeleton shirt I’d bought a pair months again, after I noticed somebody submit about it on Pinterest. So, I wore it with a blazer I discovered at some thrift store and the choker, which I noticed on Timothée Chalamet after working with him on Bones and All. I simply thought it was so cool. I knew [The Nightmare Before Christmas director] Henry Selick could be there for Wendell & Wild so I believed, “Let me simply make this Jack Skellington costume.”
What’s your favourite look you’ve worn thus far?
I actually favored the Globes look. There was additionally the one for the Babylon premiere: I wore this blue velvet go well with with a bow tie from a store on Etsy. The bowtie had snakes on it, and there’s a snake within the film. Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt noticed it and have been like, “Oh my god, that’s so cool!” Afterward, I despatched a word to the lady who made the bowtie and advised her Margot and Brad favored it and he or she stated it was the proper exclamation level for her 2022.
What’s one in every of your favourite style moments in popular culture?
Billy Crystal in When Harry Met Sally. Each outfit in that film—the chunky cable-knits, the suede elbow patches on the blazer. The white sneakers, the excessive white tube socks, all the things is ideal.
Who’re your model icons?
I all the time say that when Harry Kinds or Timothée Chalamet wears one thing, meaning I can do it. However there are different folks, too—like, humorous sufficient, Larry David. He, as the children say, “Do be dressin’.” He’s obtained it found out.
So far as purple carpet, I believe Kodi Smit-McPhee attire rather well. He’s additionally a improbable actor. His efficiency in The Energy of the Canine was a kind of performances I want folks talked about extra, simply because it’s quiet. Everybody likes a efficiency the place somebody’s yelling, whereas I really like restraint.