Indian women wearing traditional attire take a “selfie” with an Indian man dressed as King 'Mahabali' during the Hindu harvesting festival Onam celebrations in Bangalore, India, 28 August 2015. Local people put flower mats in front of their houses, to welcome the King Mahabali, a past ruler of Kerala southern India, during the ten-day festival. (Photo by Jagadeesh N. V./EPA)

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.

Models struggle against strong wind before the rehearsal of Christian Dior's Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2017 live show to celebrate Dior's new flagship store on the rooftop of Ginza Six mall in Tokyo, Japan, April 19, 2017. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)

Rainey Qualley and Margaret Qualley attend the Vanity Fair Oscar party in Beverly Hills during the 92nd Academy Awards, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., February 9, 2020. (Photo by Danny Moloshok/Reuters)

A masked tourist poses for a souvenir photo next to a graffiti titled “Mobile World Virus” depicting “La Gioconda”, aka Mona Lisa, with a mobile phone and a medical mask, by urban artist TVBoy, close to the Sant Jaume square in Barcelona, Spain, 09 March 2020. Barcelona's Deputy Mayor and two town councillors are in quarantine after they were in contact with a City Hall's worker who was tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus. (Photo by Quique Garcia/EPA/EFE)

Corey Jurgensen runs along East Henry Avenue wearing an inflatable unicorn costume. Jurgensen has been wearing the costume during runs several times a week to cheer up others during this time of isolation but finds it therapeutic for herself as well to run through her Seminole Heights neighborhood wearing a silly costume, Thursday, April 16, 2020 in Tampa, Fla. (Photo by Martha Asencio Rhine/Tampa Bay Times via AP Photo)

Beautician Alex Smith, 26, does the nails of Jules Aspen, 40, at the Madame Beauty salon in Chirton, North Tyneside, UK on July 13, 2020. Nail bars, beauty salons, tattoo and massage studios, physical therapy businesses, spas and piercing services are able to reopen in the latest lifting of restrictions in England. (Photo by Owen Humphreys/PA Images via Getty Images)

Sweden's Mikael Ymer slips and falls in the first round match of the French Open tennis tournament against Serbia's Novak Djokovic at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris, France, Tuesday, September 29, 2020. (Photo by Alessandra Tarantino/AP Photo)