i-D crowns Dominic Sessa as its new digital cover star. Tina Tyrell photographs the Now You See Me: Now You Don’t star in a mix of leather, knits, and denim. Meanwhile, Thom Bettridge styles Sessa, curating a wardrobe with some softness and bite.
Dominic Sessa for i-D
Connecting with i-D, Sessa looks back at how quickly his life changed once The Holdovers placed him on the map. He remembers being discovered at boarding school and stepping into his first audition without any sense of what would follow.
The feature captures that same mix of chance and intent, especially when he talks about the places that keep him grounded, like New York. “I know way more people here, I like the seasons changing, I do not like driving in traffic,” he says about choosing New York over Los Angeles, which sums up the simplicity he keeps returning to.
The interview also lets Sessa’s humor surface. When he describes meeting David Blaine during the Now You See Me whirlwind and watching him eat glass, Sessa laughs and says, “I told a producer that I want to eat glass in the next one.”
It is a line that fits the way colleagues read him. Jesse Eisenberg calls him someone who commits fully, saying, “Dom signs up for a million things and then wins each one of them.”
Havana Rose Liu adds that Sessa has “a kind of comfortability, respect and grace” that feels rare in someone so young.
Sessa ends the piece by describing his ideal future: “Quiet place. Big ass house. Big ass yard. Big ass dogs. Love of your life. That is the end game.”
