Amandla Stenberg Talks Film Cancel Culture in Fall Fashion for 'The Cut' AOC Fashion

Actor Amandla Stenberg covers the August 2022 issue of The Cut, styled by Roberto Johnson. Lea Winkler [IG] photographed Stenberg, who spoke with Hunter Schafer about ‘Bodies, Bodies, Bodies’, the new ‘satirical slasher’ movie out the first week in August.

The film centers on a group of privileged Gen Z types behaving on a sliding scale of terribleness. Pete Davidson plays the young man David, with a remote mansion in the family. The cast of ‘Bodies, Bodies, Bodies’ converges at David’s place for a “hurricane party” in advance of really bad weather.

As Mother Nature bears down on the 20-somethings, the group launches into a party game where a player selected as the ‘murderer’ must tag and ‘kill’ a victim. The group must find the ‘killer’, a quest that becomes morbidly serious when a real dead body joins the party.

The ambiguity of so-called true-friends relationships becomes apparent as trust and order break down among the people no longer sure who is a real friend and who is fake.

The interview between Stenberg and Shafer makes evident cover star’s disorientation over the arguments being made about the ‘Body, Body, Body’ characters on social media. In a new and separate controversy that erupted this week, precipitated by Stenberg’s reaction to a film critique, the narrative about the film has become almost more important than the film itself.