British model and UK Love Island's star India Reynolds attends the boohooMAN Dinner to celebrate the launch of BoohooMAN collaboration with Tommy Fury at Sushisamba City in London, England on September 2, 2019. (Photo by Splash News and Pictures)

Jennifer Lopez sets pulses racing in this new campaign for Intimissimi on October 18, 2023. The singer and actress, 54, showcases her curves in the Italian brand's latest looks. Lopez teamed up with the brand to create the “This is Me... Now” capsule collection. (Photo by Intimissimi/The Mega Agency)

Ecuador President Daniel Noboa and his wife Lavinia Valbonesi arrive for the Presidential Inauguration of Donald Trump at the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S. January 20, 2025. (Photo by Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters)

Bikini Contest in Daytona Beach, Florida’s Atlantic coast, circa 1980s. (Photo by Evan Hurd/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images)

An Iraqi Muslim woman walks past Christmas decorations for sale in the Shiite holy city of Najaf on December 17, 2015. (Photo by Haidar Hamdani/AFP Photo)

A Muslim woman reads the Quran following noon prayers on the first day of the holy fasting month of Ramadan at Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, June 6, 2016. Devout Muslims began to celebrate Ramadan, the holiest month in the Islamic calendar, refraining from eating, drinking, smoking and sеx from sunrise to sunset. (Photo by Tatan Syuflana/AP Photo)

Carlos Melendez prepares to feed his pet squirrel “Colita” in downtown San Salvador January 29, 2015. (Photo by Jose Cabezas/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.