November 6 was Maude Apatow’s massive day. The actor—who in Could 2026 will have the ability to declare hyphenate standing with the theatrical launch of her directorial debut, Poetic License—obtained Max Mara’s Face of the Future Award on the Chateau Marmont.

She accepted it sporting, clearly, Max Mara (a black turtleneck and pink petal skirt from the model’s spring-summer 2026 assortment, to be actual) as a crowd that included Kate Hudson and Sarah Paulson (additionally sporting Max Mara) clapped on. Given the fashion-brand-ness of all of it, you’d be forgiven for pondering this was only a fashion-brand factor. However contemplating the spectacular checklist of previous recipients—over the previous 20 years, the Face of the Future Award been awarded to names like Gemma Chan, Elizabeth Debicki, Rose Byrne, Hailee Steinfeld, and Emily Blunt—is considerably of a bellwether on the intense younger issues of in the present day that may turn out to be the family names of tomorrow.

“I truthfully can’t consider my identify is being spoken in the identical sentence as them,” Apatow says, her eyes huge and bob sharp whereas sitting within the distinct brown and pink suites at Sundown Tower.

She’s a number of weeks out from filming the hotly anticipated Euphoria season three. Nonetheless, the considered speaking about it with a reporter sends her right into a match of tension: “Oh my god, I’m so scared to say something,” she says, hiding her face in her palms. “I assume everybody is aware of this, however it’s like 5 years sooner or later. So we’re all out of school and residing our lives and within the workforce. I’ve a full job.”

Maude Apatow with a cocktail at Los Angeless famed Sunset Tower.

Maude Apatow with a cocktail at Los Angeles’s famed Sundown Tower.

Picture: Elias Tahan for Max Mara