Essence sat down with the in-demand young starlet to talk all things acting, her love of Eartha Kitt, fashion icons, and her newest gig as the face of the new COS spring/summer campaign.

Nowhere is it more telling than in the Kitt sequence or in Lady Bird’s interactions with her predecessor, Jackie Kennedy. “These are people, [but] we treat them as these kind of stone icons ...

And in between, he managed to write a showstopper for a true icon — Elmo — in the new off-Broadway Sesame Street the Musical. Trending on Billboard Kitt describes juggling his myriad projects ...