The Cut - Nia Long Is Doing Just Fine

Find me someone, anyone, who doesn’t love Nia Long. The 52-year-old actress has, throughout a decades-spanning career marked by roles in ’90 classics like Boyz N the Hood, Friday, Love Jones, and The Best Man, earned the sort of goodwill that makes viewers bond deeply with her down-to-earth characters.

Seated in front of a spread of yellowtail sashimi and spicy tuna at a New York restaurant, Long wears a black Lululemon unitard that, she says, “sucks everything in” underneath a black Nili Lotan shirt with a black cashmere beanie over her long hair. She’s grabbing dinner with her eldest son, 22-year-old Massai, and seeing The Piano Lesson with him on Broadway later. “We have an open-door policy about communication and hard conversations in our home,” she explains, pointing toward Massai. “Sometimes, I embarrass him, I’m sure.” (He disagrees.) She adds, “I’m bossy,” to which he offers, “You just move at your pace.”

First, and most importantly, there’s a trailer for Fast X. Watch it. Another unexpected treat: Elif Batuman on Pig Pen, the Peanuts’ “running Zen koan.” Can’t make it to Amsterdam to see the largest ever collection of Vermeer paintings? Fortunately, the Rijksmuseum has put together a digital tour led by Stephen Fry. King Charles has a private plane and a private train, but sure, wearing holey socks makes him “sustainable.” Pamela Anderson’s press tour continues to be the highlight of 2023 so far. And: “It’s basically impossible to be an informed consumer, and it always has been.”

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