While the 2020 presidential election got underway with the Iowa caucus, Hollywood’s rising talents had other, more lighthearted matters in mind on Wednesday night. With the Oscars just days away, conversation around the dinner table at Teen Vogue’s annual celebration of its young Hollywood issue cover stars centered on the best picture nominees.
“It blew my mind,” Millicent Simmonds, one of nine to grace the cover, said of “Parasite,” the Korean thriller by Bong Joon-ho. The 16-year-old deaf actress starred in 2017’s “Wonderstruck” and 2018’s “A Quiet Place.” “I love the story. I love the acting. How in the world the director thought of that and wrote that story blows me away. You have no idea what’s coming and what to expect. I think that’s why it really hits you.”
Other cover stars who came out included Kelvin Harrison Jr., who’s nominated for best male lead for “Luce” at the upcoming Film Independent Spirit Awards, and Sofia Carson, who shared that she was rooting for Sam Mendes’ “1917.”
“It really stayed with me,” she said, wearing Givenchy. “I was also going to say ‘Little Women,’ but that unfortunately was not nominated. But ‘1917’ was a big one for me. It was shot so

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