A Hindu devotee lies on a road as she worships the Sun god during the religious festival of Chhath Puja in Kolkata, India October 26, 2017. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)

Bella Hadid is close to losing her top while on location for a photoshoot in Brooklyn, New York on December 11, 2017. (Photo by NPEx/Splash News and Pictures)

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.

Seen in a long camera exposure, the Caldor Fire burns on Sunday, August 29, 2021, in Eldorado National Forest, Calif. (Photo by Noah Berger/AP Photo)

American singer-songwriter and actress Olivia Isabel Rodrigo poses outside of Amoeba music in Los Angeles, California at the end of August 2021, as her debut album, “Sour”, gets released on vinyl. (Photo by Instagram)

People cling on to a crowded train as it leaves a railway station during the ongoing Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Ghaziabad, India, September 21, 2021. (Photo by Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters)

People react following an Israeli air strike on Palestinian houses, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on December 12, 2023. (Photo by Fadi Shana/Reuters)

People look through the front windshield of a damaged trolleybus in Donetsk, January 22, 2015. At least seven civilians were killed on Thursday when a shell or a mortar hit a trolleybus stop in the rebel-controlled city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, a Reuters witness said. The Reuters cameraman said he saw six bodies on the ground near, and inside, a trolleybus in a southern district of the city. Windows of shops nearby had been blown out by the blast. (Photo by Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters)