André Leon Talley recently sat down with Quvenzhané Wallis, who at nine years old is the youngest actress to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
The video opens with the incredibly talented “Beasts of the Southern Wild” star name-dropping all the famous people she’s been busy meeting instead of doing her homework.
That same wide-eyed precociousness caught in Benh Zeitlin’s acclaimed film is seen in her interview with Vogue’s eccentric editor-at-large.
Wallis reveals how many pets she has (a German Sheppard and a Yorkie-poo that do not get along), what she got from Santa (a pink electric scooter), and why she’s not going to wear a long dress to the Oscars (‘cause I might step on it and trip on it and I’ll humiliate myself!”)
Wallis was only 5 when she auditioned to play Hushpuppy, her first-ever acting job.