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Diana Covers Harper’s Bazaar Australia

Diana Covers Harper’s Bazaar Australia

Diana is the cover star of Harper’s Bazaar Australia/New Zealand! The January-February 2022 issue will be on Australian newsstands Monday, December 20. Check out the photoshoot and article below.


Diana Silvers on female role models and acting on gut instincts

Meet DIANA SILVERS. From CALIFORNIA COOL GIRL to Hollywood star, the model turned actor has had a whirlwind few years. She lets loose on a day in NEW YORK with CASS BIRD, one of fashion’s favourite photographers

HARPER’S BAZAAR – THINGS COULD HAVE gone differently for Diana Silvers. Two days before the actor auditioned for her first major movie, Ma — a horror flick about six teenagers who ask a stranger to buy them alcohol before finding out the woman is all sorts of crazy — her family home burned down in one of the largest wildfires in Californian history. It was December 2017, and Silvers, then a junior at New York University, was studying for her finals when she abruptly left the city to be with her family in Los Angeles.

The wildfire consumed more than 93,000 acres of land, took more than 1000 buildings, and erased everything she had ever owned. “The weird thing about the fire, for me, was that if it hadn’t have happened, I literally would not have had an acting career,” Silvers says over Zoom, her long legs crossed and boyish-brown hair tucked into the hood of her grey university-style Erewhon sweatshirt by the LA streetwear brand Pizzaslime. She explained that there was simply no way in hell her parents would have allowed her to fly home in the middle of finals for a casting call, so if she hadn’t already been in town, she wouldn’t have auditioned. “I went into the room with this no fucks given attitude because I literally had nothing more to lose.”

Her co-star, the Academy Award-winning actor Octavia Spencer, who plays the desperate and deranged mother figure in Tate Taylor’s film, interpreted the rookie’s blasé attitude as “raw talent” mixed with “incredible instincts”, she says. “She reminded me of a young Julia Roberts,” Spencer continues. “I had no idea that she’d never acted but I was certain that she would need proper representation. That’s why I introduced her to my [agents] at the time. I expect big things from her.”

To be clear, big things came for Silvers, 24, and fast. The same year she played Cheerleading Girl in M. Night Shyamalan’s 2019 Glass, she had her star turn as Hope in actor-turned-director Olivia Wilde’s breakout coming-of-age film, Booksmart. Talk about no fucks given: her performance as the impossibly cool high schooler who dons Levi’s and a vintage fringe suede jacket, hates school and hates parties and yet still gets the girl (Kaitlyn Dever’s Amy) would make bad boy John Bender of The Breakfast Club blush. Silvers was only in a few scenes — she was filming another project at the same time and simply couldn’t be on set for more than a handful of days — but she made her mark nonetheless, a feat she credits to Wilde, who is “literally the coolest person and the future of film”.

Not long after Booksmart was released, Ma hit theaters to rave reviews. Next came Space Force, the 2020 workplace comedy series co-created by Steve Carell. Silvers plays Carell and Lisa Kudrow’s seriously over-it teenage daughter, Erin. “I just remember thinking I don’t even care if I get this,” says Silvers of the audition opposite The Office star for the Netflix original series, which returns for a second season in early 2022. “The truth is, I was just happy that I got to spend 20 minutes with Steve Carell. And I’m still just always happy to be in the room.”

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Diana for The New York Times

Diana for The New York Times

From Instagram to 5,000 Theaters: Diana Silvers on ‘Ma’ and ‘Booksmart’

The 21-year-old actress suddenly finds herself being noticed by women she had long admired. “Taylor Swift has seen my face. Cool! Sick!”

NY TIMES – Diana Silvers has been seen in just three movies in her short career, but she has quickly ascended from a bit part in the superhero thriller “Glass” earlier this year to major roles putting her on thousands of screens this weekend: she plays a high school love interest in the female-centric comedy “Booksmart,” and the main teenager menaced by Octavia Spencer’s psycho in the horror tale “Ma.”

The name Diana Silvers may suggest a golden age of Hollywood starlet, but she is as au courant as they come. Discovered as a model on Instagram, she’s beginning her film career in the #MeToo era. “I feel lucky to be entering the industry at this time because people are being held accountable,” the 21-year-old said over orange juice at a downtown Manhattan hotel recently. “I just feel safe. I’m not anxious about anything, except maybe saying something stupid in an interview. And so far, I’ve been extremely lucky.”
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W Magazine Interview

W Magazine Interview

New Faces: Diana Silvers, 21-Year-Old Scream Queen of Blumhouse’s Ma

W MAGAZINE – Diana Silvers is afraid of heights. She mentions this casually, as she poses next to floor-to-ceiling windows on the 39th floor of the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan. But before you get a chance to process that, she’s moved on to her next thought. “Let’s take a picture with the phone,” she declares, heading over to pick up the receiver of a desktop phone sitting nearby. “Hello, Hollywood? Hold please.” She’s joking—and, yet, she’s not entirely incorrect.

In the span of the next seven days, the 21-year-old actress will star in her two biggest films to date—the Blumhouse horror film Ma, in theaters next Friday, and Olivia Wilde’s high school comedy Booksmart—marking a rapid ascent for the actress who, until recently, was a true newcomer to the industry. “When I step outside and think of the caliber of actors I’ve had the privilege of working with, it just blows my mind,” she said. “I’m brand new, and even my first, first thing, which was Cheerleader no. 2 in Glass, my scene was with James McAvoy. Bruce Willis, like, nodded at me! After the first time we filmed something, M. Night Shymalan pulled me aside and said, ‘You have such a magnetic presence on camera.’ And I’m like, ‘Me? I’m just Cheerleader #21.’”
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V Girl: Diana Silvers

V Girl: Diana Silvers

V MAGAZINEThis story on Diana Silvers first appears in V119, our Music Issue. V119 is available for sale now at vmagazine.myshopify.com.

A tennis champ and accomplished photographer, Diana Silvers’s it-factor is multifaceted. While her onscreen presence was limited prior to January’s Glass, it’s poised to triple by year’s end thanks to back-to-back appearances in Ma, Booksmart and Eve. “People tell me everything’s going to change and to be careful, but you can’t worry about what might happen or you’d just go insane,” Silvers says. “When the Ma trailer came out, [it made me] super, super anxious. But then I realized that, at the end of the day, you’re still yourself. As long as you’re happy with that person, it doesn’t matter what anybody thinks.”
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