Inhoudsopgave van April 27, 2026 - TIME Magazine

Luke Combs COUNTRY SUPERSTAR By Ed Sheeran I first met Luke Combs in 2018, when I was living in Nashville. I’d heard his song “When It Rains It Pours” while on holiday with my schoolmates, and it quickly became our soundtrack. As soon as I met Luke, I knew he was a good bloke, with talent just spilling out of him. Over the years, I’ve watched him move from album to album and tour to tour, constantly evolving—not just as an artist, but also as a human, and always for the better. He’s scaled the highest heights of music while remaining loving and kind to those around him. People might call that “normal,” but there’s nothing normal about what Luke has achieved. He’s an incredible writer, singer, and performer. I…

Zoe Saldaña LEADING ACTOR By James Cameron So … How to describe the phenomenon that is Zoe Saldaña? An Academy Award–winning actor, she has starred in films that together have grossed more than those of any other actor in history, male or female. She is known to many by her vivid, nonhuman characters: the surly, deadpan Gamora and the ferocious warrior-mother Neytiri. To those close to her, she is the most gracious, loyal, loving, and fiercely protective mother, wife, friend, and all-around incredible human being we know. Through her roles in Star Trek, Emilia Pérez, and others, she celebrates her Afro-Latina roots with fierce pride and courageous dignity. She can shape-shift before our eyes from heartbreaking vulnerability to the strongest icon of female badassery ever seen. In her work and…

Dolores Huerta BRAVE ICON By Gloria Steinem Organizing in support of farmworkers was one of my first political endeavors. In the late 1960s, Marion Moses, then a nurse for farmworkers with no health care, landed on the East Coast to replicate successful West Coast organizing, boycotting grapes and other products picked by exploited workers. That’s why I ended up picketing in front of an A&P store in New York, and going to California to march and organize a press conference. Through this activism, I got to know Dolores Huerta, a fierce political organizer helping farmworkers around the country secure better pay and protections. That work made her a civil rights and labor icon. In March, the New York Times reported that Dolores’ longtime colleague, labor leader Cesar Chavez, had sexually…

Wagner Moura REMARKABLE PERFORMER By Jeremy Strong I had the honor of serving on the jury of the Cannes Film Festival last year. One night I sat in the back of the enormous Palais theater and watched in admiration and awe as Wagner Moura carried us through 1970s Recife, Brazil, and then carried us somewhere reserved for transcendent performances: into the heart of life. The jury awarded him the prize for Best Actor. Long a legend in Brazil, he has been on the world’s stage for some time now. But, this past year, Moura punched a hole through the world’s ceiling. Also at Cannes last year, Robert De Niro made a speech in which he said, “Fascists should fear art.” Moura, living under Jair Bolsonaro’s right-wing government from 2019 to…

Pope Leo XIV SPIRITUAL FORCE By Martin Scorsese The election of Pope Francis, a man I came to know and love as a friend, marked a turning point in the history of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the first Pope born outside of Europe since the Middle Ages and the first Jesuit. Pope Leo XIV is the first North American–born Pope (with a Chicago accent!) and the first Augustinian in 500 years. I’m struck by his bravery and his common touch. And he seems to share Francis’ understanding that the church needs to reform itself to retain its moral and spiritual force. For many, the church has lost a great deal of moral and spiritual credibility. Revelations of widespread sexual abuse and financial wrongdoing keep coming up, and many…

Nikki Glaser CRUSHING COMEDY By Chris Rock The thing I love about Nikki Glaser is she has the decency to be scared, and you can tell she has the decency to be scared because of how hard she works. So many comics get ego’ed out, performing to only their fans in the safest possible environments. They fall in love with their own delivery and mistake that for actual craftsmanship. Yes, Nikki has all the tools for comedic stardom. She’s got the look, she’s got the voice (by the way, the most underrated part of being a great comedian—think Bernie Mac, Roseanne Barr, and the greatest voice of all, Katt Williams); she’s also got a strong point of view and is extremely likable. Writing jokes for stand-up is one of the…