A tourist gets an “Art Hug” from a disinfected costumed man outside the reopened Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday, June 1, 2020. The government takes a major step to relax the coronavirus lockdown, with bars, restaurants, cinemas and museums reopening under strict conditions. (Photo by Peter Dejong/AP Photo)

A mask seller wearing a mask stands in a street market in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, June 9, 2020. Daily life in capital resuming to normal as Thai government continues to ease restrictions related to running business in capital Bangkok that were imposed weeks ago to combat the spread of COVID-19. (Photo by Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP Photo)

A model wears a creation from the Ronaldo Fraga collection during Sao Paulo Fashion Week in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Friday, April 26, 2019. (Photo by Andre Penner/AP Photo)

Mt.Huanshan, or Mount Hua is one of the five sacred mountains in China. The other four are Taishan in Shandong, Songshan in Henan, Hengshan in Shanxi and Hengshan in Hunan.
Mt. Huashan is reputed as the most precipitous of the five.

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.

Customers try out the the new iPad2 shortly after it went on sale at the Fifth Avenue Apple store March 11, 2011 in New York City. The iPad 2 became available at 4:00 a.m. Eastern time for online purchase and at 5:00 p.m. today in over 10,000 retail locations.

Girls hold hands as they help each other wade through a flooded street after the passing of Hurricane Matthew in Les Cayes, Haiti, Thursday, October 6, 2016. Two days after the storm rampaged across the country's remote southwestern peninsula, authorities and aid workers still lack a clear picture of what they fear is the country's biggest disaster in years. (Photo by Dieu Nalio Chery/AP Photo)

Customers are seen in front of a shop that reopened in central Copenhagen, Denmark, 01 March 2021. Shops reopened after several months of closure due to the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Philip Davali/EPA/EFE)