Halle Bailey Is the Moment—And a Movie Star in the Making

glamour.com:

By Photography by It’s a rainy afternoon in Beverly Hills, and Halle Bailey is coziness personified. Curled up on a hotel couch wearing a teal Ivy Park hoodie and matching shorts, she sips the green tea she ordered us from room service and wants to talk about….

Upon hearing that I’ve never seen one of her favorite shows, she audibly gasps. “Love After Lockup is amazing,” she says, describing the premise of the We TV show, which documents the love lives of former inmates after they’re released from prison. “Some of [their] partners buy houses for them and go all out and truly fall in love.

It’s so good. You have to watch it.” Marc Jacobs . Alexis Bittar . Jennifer Fisher The fact that the 23-year-old has time to watch even a single episode feels like a scheduling feat of epic proportion.

At the time of our meeting in March, had spent the last nine days logging multiple studio sessions for her forthcoming solo album, wrapping up post-production work for her role in the upcoming musical movie adaptation of 1985 drama The Color Purple, and planning a birthday trip “someplace warm” the following week.