Chase Sui Wonders doesn’t just play a photographer on HBO Max’s Genera+ion—she’s a photographer in real life too. Wonders first started to process her own film and develop prints in black and white in high school. It was serendipitous, then, that her character, Riley, was written as a photographer from the jump. “She sees the world through this gritty lens. She’s an observer who uses her camera as a sort of shield,” said the actor, who looked to the “beautiful, ragey portraits of youth” from artists like Dash Snow, Rineke Dijkstra, and Ryan McGinley to inspire her character.
Sui used her own iPhone 11 and Minolta Maxxum 3xi to shoot her castmates in a photo diary exclusively for Vanity Fair. “I like taking photos right before action, when the cast is in character. It also drops me into Riley’s frame of mind,” says the 24-year-old. “The cast and crew are so bonded at this point—we’ve been through 16 episodes and a pandemic together—it’s a very loving dynamic to take portraits in.”
Uly and Syd looking beautiful and acting serious. In reality, they are constantly chortling with one another.
The buzzy series, which borrows from the likes of Euphoria and Skins, focuses on the interconnected lives of a group of high school students in California where sex, drugs, and TikTok are the guiding lights. It was created by 19-year-old Zelda Barnz and her father, Daniel Barnz. The two cowrote the series and executive produced it alongside Lena Dunham and Zelda’s other father, Ben Barnz.
This is the first day Justice and I really got to play with our character’s dynamic, we couldn’t stop laughing. I remember this scene really loosening up my grasp of Riley in the greatest way. Justice has taught me a lot about acting. He has beautiful kernels of wisdom.
“My high school self would be extremely jarred by Riley’s social confidence. I was compulsive about conforming,” said Wonders, who grew up in the “at times, stifling” suburbs of Detroit and graduated from Harvard, where she played hockey and wrote for the Harvard Lampoon. “The heart and humor of Genera+ion is so rooted in those cringey moments teens constantly bump up against where, in an effort to figure out who they are, they actually go against every fiber of their being,” she said. “That type of raw, fumbling honesty does what my favorite stories do—it makes you feel less alone.”
Justice working some ostrich eggs at a real farm we went to for episode six.
This was during episode five. It felt like one long sleepover with Haley and Justice.
I stayed on set to watch this scene between DNA and Nathan. A lot of times other members of the cast who aren’t called in to work will stay to watch someone else’s scene. Everyone is so supportive—and down to watch a free live show.
This was right after one of my favorite scenes with Nathan Stewart-Jarrett. He is incredible. He makes choices in a scene that make you make better choices. On the right, I love watching the friendship dynamic of this trio unfold.
This was right before filming a scene where Riley gets dared to give Nathan a lap dance. It got cut. Maybe for the best…
In the BG is the professional driver Robert Nagle. He does a lot of the hard precision driving while the actors pretend to.
Uly and I have grown so close through all this. It’s really wonderful chemistry to have bleed into the Riley/Nathan dynamic.
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