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- Who's that?  - Someone to believe in.

Even with his Brat Pack looks and gift for digesting extreme emotions, it took American Midwest actor Evan Peters a soul-searching decade to hit the big time. Now, he’s firmly embedded in superstar showrunner Ryan Murphy’s cabal of actors, alongside Jessica Lange and Sarah Paulson, appearing in American Horror Story as a rotating cast of eccentric characters — and even sawing off limbs with Lady Gaga. He embodied conflicted masculinity in the fabulously heartfelt ballroom-scene drama Pose and last year he anchored his biggest feature film yet as real-life criminal Warren Lipka in heist caper American Animals. Peters is an actor who can do both cult TV and bona fide blockbusters: this summer he’ll be donning a blue rinse as Quicksilver in X-Men: Dark Phoenix, reprising a role in the action franchise he’s held since 2014’s X-Men: Days of Future Past. Later this year, he’ll star in the Australian biopic I Am Woman as feminist icon Helen Reddy’s husband and manager Jeff Wald.

On the pressure to play a leading man

"I’m trying to figure out what vulnerability is. It’s such a crazy feeling that I can’t even describe it. Playing Stan [in Pose] was hard. Very hard. But it was a learning experience. I take all these roles as learning experiences. I’d hope that nowadays there’s more freedom to explore, tell great stories and play whatever part you want. Now more than ever people shouldn’t be pigeonholed."

On taking a sabbatical after giving negative quotes in 2018