In this picture taken on July 10, 2023, women belonging to the “Meira Paibis”, a group of women representing Meitei society, hold torches during a demonstation demanding for the restoration of peace in India's north-eastern Manipur state in Imphal, following ongoing ethnic violence in Manipur. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)

Palestinian youths from the freestyle parkour team in Gaza practice their skills at the beach in the northern Gaza Strip on August 29, 2023. (Photo by Mahmoud Issa/SOPA Images/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

People shop at a market ahead of the Lunar New Year in Hong Kong on February 6, 2024 ahead of the Lunar New Year of the Dragon which falls on February 10. (Photo by Peter Parks/AFP Photo)

A stork starts from its nest in the cliffs high above the Atlantic Ocean in Cabo Sardao, Portugal, Friday, March 29, 2024. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)

Revelers run through the festival grounds to see the next show at the Governors Ball music festival at Corona Park in the Queens borough of New York City, U.S., June 9, 2024. (Photo by Cheney Orr/Reuters)

An art installation formed with milk churns, made by land art artist Gerard Benoit a la Guillaume, is seen at the Chenau de Mayen in the resort of Leysin, Switzerland August 7, 2015. More than 80 milk churns were placed between the Tour d'Ai and the Tour de Mayen summits at an altitude of 2,000 meters (6,561 feet) above sea level under the direction of the artist, to be photographed for his ongoing art project entitled “Milk churns without borders”. (Photo by Denis Balibouse/Reuters)

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.

Makeup artists Kamila Wysocka and Alexis Jackson from Florida, point at another costumed person as they eat dinner in their zombie makeup at ComicCon in New York, on Oktober 10, 2013. (Photo by Carlo Allegri/Reuters)

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