Artist Princess Tarinan von Anhalt throws paint into the flow of air coming from the engine of Flexjet’s Learjet 40 XR engine to create a painting on a canvas at Signature Flight Support in West Palm Beach, Florida. The artist associated with the Jet Art Group used the help of Flexjet and their plane to spray paint on a canvas to create distinctive paintings to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Learjet. (Photo by Thomas Cordy/The Palm Beach Post)

A reveler strikes a pose during an unofficial carnival block party referred to as “blocos”, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, February 26, 2022. City Hall banned all blocos, the tightly packed street parties attended by those who cannot or don't want to buy pricey tickets for the official parade at the Sambadrome, due to a wave of the Omicron variant. (Photo by Silvia Izquierdo/AP Photo)

A Berber Moroccan woman, wearing traditional outfits, parades during the “Miss Rose” beauty contest as part of the yearly Rose Festival on May 13, 2016 in the town of Kelaat Mgouna, at the foot of the High Atlas Mountains in Morocco. (Photo by Fadel Senna/AFP Photo)

A model presents a creation by Versace from the Spring/Summer 2023 collection during the Milan Fashion Week, in Milan, Italy, 23 September 2022. The Milano Fashion Week Women's runs from 20 to 26 September. (Photo by Mourad Balti Touati/EPA/EFE)

A model displays a creation for designer Andres Sarda's Fall/Winter 2015 collection, during the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Madrid, February 7, 2015. (Photo by Javier Barbancho/Reuters)

A model showcases designs on the catwalk by Manning Cartell during A Review of Australian Fashion Week show as part of Mercedes Benz Fashion Festival Sydney 2011 at Sydney Town Hall on August 27, 2011 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Don Arnold/Getty Images)

Photographer Howard Schatz had an idea: place actors in a series of roles and dramatic situations to reveal the essence of their characters. Such was the premise behind his book, In Character: Actors Acting, which captures some of Hollywood’s most emotive stars in the act of, well, making faces. Luckily for us, he continued the tradition for Vanity Fair. Here are some of the best.

A local resident rests on a bench as Mount Bromo volcano erupts in the background in Ngadisari, Probolinggo, East Java, Indonesia January 5, 2016. (Photo by Darren Whiteside/Reuters)