A tourist pets a cat before the “Horus protects Ramses II as a child”, dating to the reign of the Ancient Egyptian New Kingdom pharaoh (1303-1213 BC), at the Egyptian Museum in the centre of Egypt's capital Cairo on October 19, 2022. (Photo by Amir Makar/AFP Photo)

Police officers detain a demonstrator as people protest to defy a ban and march on Taksim Square to celebrate May Day in Istanbul, Turkey on May 1, 2023. (Photo by Dilara Senkaya/Reuters)

A model presents a creation by Moroccan designer Fadila El Gadi during a fashion show in Rabat on May 30, 2023. (Photo by Fadel Senna/AFP Photo)

This picture taken on June 3, 2023 shows wild elephants eating rubbish mixed with plastic waste at a dump in the eastern district of Ampara. (Photo by Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP Photo)

Tourists in the Serengeti, Tanzania in the second decade of February 2024, get more than they bargained for as a cheetah jumps on the bonnet of their jeep to make their acquaintance. (Photo by Ann Aveyard/Animal News Agency)

Lewis McKay, two, from East Kilbride, tries out the drums at the 2024 World Pipe Band Championships in Glasgow. on August 16, 2024 Some 204 bands, representing 13 nations and including 9,000 musicians, are competing over two days. (Photo by Wattie Cheung/The Times)

A frog sits on a leaf and instead of seeing a reflection of itself in the water below, it sees a snail, attached to the bottom of the leaf, in a fish tank in Vietnam. (Photo by Duong Quoc Dinh/Solent Ne/SIPA Press)

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.