Hunter Schafer week: a New York whirlwind

Hunter Schafer week: a New York whirlwind

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Hunter Schafer’s eyes were digging a hole in the gray wall of her hotel room, her left hand holding her cheek as if, wishing badly, she could convince the events of the day she was trying to recall.

“Let’s see, I know I did the Gotham Awards … yesterday?” the 21-year-old transgender model and HBO star “Euphoria”I said in a video call earlier this month.

Not exactly – the ceremony had been the day before.

“Too bad,” she said, smiling in a light blue hooded coat and black Carhartt-style jacket after returning from an outdoor photo shoot on a cold New York afternoon. “The weather is confused now.”

The past year and a half has been a whirlwind for Schafer, since she made her debut as an actress like Jules, opposite the tormented Rue de Zendaya addiction to “Euphoria,” the Emmy-winning drama series about teenagers navigating drug temptations. in a high school. Schafer has a sensitive and distressing role as a 17-year-old transgender girl who struggles with depression, bullying and gender dysphoria and has a love interest that cannot keep clean.

And now she is taking another leap – in writing. Schafer co-wrote the show’s second special episode, which debuted on HBO Max on Sunday, with “Euphoria” creator Sam Levinson. “The writing process took months,” she said. “There was a week when we spent hours on the phone every day to embody the episode.”

Schafer tracked his cultural diary while in New York for the 30th annual Gotham Independent Film Awards earlier this month, from his arrival with red eyes on January 10 to falling asleep listening to screamo music two days later. These are edited excerpts from the conversation.

I slept a little on my night flight to New York, where I was going to perform at the Gotham Independent Film Awards on Monday night. I heard the “Kajillionaire”Soundtrack in the car on the way to my hotel in SoHo. I’m amazed at how beautiful Emile Mosserithe songs are – I have heard them constantly.

I walked through the center while listening to this Aaron Cartier album that one of my LA friends put me on, “Aaron Cartier Best Dog. ”It’s energetic and makes my New York endorphins work. So I sat on the bed and watched the end of the series “Veneno”, which is my favorite show that I’ve been watching recently. It made me super emo, but it has some of the best portraits of trans women I’ve seen on TV in a long time – maybe never.

I went to dinner with some friends on my pod in KazuNori, which is a sushi restaurant with incredible hand rolls. They wrap them right there and bring them fresh, so the seaweed is still crunchy and the rice is so soft. Definitive update on the microwave-packed meals I was living on before. So my friend and I went into a lingerie store across the street, I want Boticário, and I got these striptease dresses – just for fun, because it’s important to dress and show off in quarantine.

Back at my hotel, I watched the anime movie “Ghost in the Shell”To go to sleep, which was scary and gave me simulation vibrations. Being in that existential space influenced my dreams in a strange way.

I suck at hitting the snooze button in the morning, so I need something pretty shocking to wake me up – I just use the annoying normal iPhone alarm. But I have also been sleeping for the Kajillionaire soundtrack, so I get little bits of it in my five minutes before my alarm goes off again.

One thing that has changed since the beginning of the pandemic was my bathing routine. When I’m filming, I’m obsessed with something that my friend told me that you can do when, at the end of the shower, you turn your mouthpiece completely cold and let yourself sit in the cold water for 30 seconds. It brings you to life.

I used to choose my clothes the night before in high school, but now that I’m living on a suitcase, I’ve edited my wardrobe, so everything fits, so I’m never too stressed about whether my clothes make sense. One of my favorite t-shirts is from LA Come Tees, which has beautiful prints of dolls of animated characters are super bright and colorful.

Hair and makeup came to prepare me for the Gotham Awards. I wore a Matthew Williams bondage dress Givenchy collection with a belt full of gold padlocks and a necklace from my friend Darius Khonsary’s new jewelry collection, Darius Jewels. She made this incredible collection of antique-looking gold pieces that are also modern and mythical.

I sat at my own table, socially distanced from the other presenters, at the Gotham Awards ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street. I distributed the Breakthrough Series award, which I was very happy to see “I can destroy you“win. This program took me out when it launched last year – it was [expletive] incredible. I am a great Michaela Coel fan.

I returned to my hotel at around 10 pm, where I ordered some fried rice with vegetables and took off my underwear. So I scrolled through my friends’ stories on Instagram. Gogo Graham, who is a stylist, has an incredible feed – I am shocked every time she launches new clothes. AND Dara Allen, a stylist and model with whom I worked, is a dream – I am delighted with the incredible looks she creates with her wild collection of clothes.

I’ve been listening to a lot of music lately: “Dawn, ”Davia Spain’s jazz debut album and EP by rapper Quay Dash“Transphobic. “And my friend Tweaks has just released a new EP,”Older now,”Which is this futuristic and experimental thing.

I came across this album, “Hunter Schafer’s boyfriend, ”By an artist named CHASE after someone tagged me on Twitter. I was like, “What is this?” So I heard it and it’s really sick. I really liked it – there’s something electronic and pop about it, but also elements of rap and maybe a little bit of screamo too.

I went to a Japanese restaurant, AOI Kitchen, with three themed mini houses – there were flowers on the wall and it looked like a fairy house. It didn’t look like I was in New York. They had really good tofu, mushrooms and sake. So I went back to my hotel and listened to some screamo music before relaxing on something a little more restful – some songs from Colleen, which sounds like something that plants would dance to.

I love to draw in the window of my hotel in New York, coffee in hand – this is my dream one day. I Love Basquiat, Egon Schiele and Sage Adams. I went through waves where I really started drawing for a few weeks, so I put it off a little bit because I don’t feel so creative. Hopefully, I will go through another one soon.

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