【Rapsa (2025)】

Bored by the set-up of traditional film festival photo booths,Rapsa (2025) Andrew H. Walker, a staff photographer at Shutterstock, took an unusual approach to celebrity portraiture for this year's Toronto Film Festival.

Back in September, Walker asked entertainers in attendance to pose for a series that explores the internal and external voices of celebrities.

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"I was really curious with actors because they have, not only this personal inside voice, but they have a public persona that they put out there, and they also have their private self," Walker tells Mashable. "There's this whole other layer of themselves as people. I found that really, really intriguing."

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The series features 51 performers -- including several Golden Globe nominees -- sharing two sides of themselves for the camera.

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"Having done this before, I know that celebrities are very guarded about their image, and so I was really nervous about how to start this and what the response was going to be," Walker says. "I have to say, 95 percent were so willing and interested in doing something."

Amy Adams Credit: ANDREW H. WALKER/SHUTTERSTOCK

Walker says his work even earned him the praise of a major filmmaker.

"Oliver Stone came around the camera to check how he looked on camera," Walker said. "And he said to me, as he was looking at the camera, 'Oh, that's really good lighting.' And so it was like, Oliver Stone just complimented my lighting! That's incredible."

See the full series below:

Aaron Eckhart Credit: Andrew H. Walker/Shutterstock Anne Hathaway Credit: ANDREW H. WALKER/SHUTTERSTOCK Billy Nighy Credit: ANDREW H. WALKER/SHUTTERSTOCK Chadwick Boseman Credit: ANDREW H. WALKER/SHUTTERSTOCK Cynthia Nixon Credit: ANDREW H. WALKER/SHUTTERSTOCK Dakota Fanning Credit: ANDREW H. WALKER/SHUTTERSTOCK David Oyelowo Credit: ANDREW H. WALKER/SHUTTERSTOCK Elizabeth Moss Credit: ANDREW H. WALKER/SHUTTERSTOCK Ewan McGregor Credit: ANDREW H. WALKER/SHUTTERSTOCK Felicity Jones Credit: ANDREW H. WALKER/SHUTTERSTOCK Fisher Stevens Credit: ANDREW H. WALKER/SHUTTERSTOCK Gaby Hoffman Credit: ANDREW H. WALKER/SHUTTERSTOCK Gael Garcia Bernal Credit: ANDREW H. WALKER/SHUTTERSTOCK Gemma Arterton Credit: Andrew H. Walker/Shutterstock Gerard Butler Credit: ANDREW H. WALKER/SHUTTERSTOCK Hailee Steinfeld Credit: ANDREW H. WALKER/SHUTTERSTOCK Holly Hunter Credit: ANDREW H. WALKER/SHUTTERSTOCK Jane Lynch Credit: ANDREW H. WALKER/SHUTTERSTOCK Jason Sudeikis Credit: ANDREW H. WALKER/SHUTTERSTOCK Jeffrey Tambor Credit: ANDREW H. WALKER/SHUTTERSTOCK Jennifer Connelly Credit: ANDREW H. WALKER/SHUTTERSTOCK Jeremy Renner Credit: ANDREW H. WALKER/SHUTTERSTOCK Joel Edgerton Credit: ANDREW H. WALKER/SHUTTERSTOCK John Legend Credit: ANDREW H. WALKER/SHUTTERSTOCK Liev Schreiber Credit: ANDREW H. WALKER/SHUTTERSTOCK Lily-Rose Melody Depp Credit: Andrew H. Walker/shutterstock Lupita Nyong'o Credit: Andrew H. Walker/shutterstock Mahershala Ali Credit: Andrew h. walker/shutterstock Maria Bello Credit: ANDREW H. WALKER/SHUTTERSTOCK Michael Shannon Credit: ANDREW H. WALKER/SHUTTERSTOCK Miles Teller Credit: ANDREW H. WALKER/SHUTTERSTOCK Naomi Watts Credit: ANDREW H. WALKER/SHUTTERSTOCK Naomie Harris Credit: ANDREW H. WALKER/SHUTTERSTOCK Nick Cannon Credit: ANDREW H. WALKER/SHUTTERSTOCK Oliver Stone Credit: ANDREW H. WALKER/SHUTTERSTOCK Oscar Isaac Credit: ANDREW H. WALKER/SHUTTERSTOCK Parker Posey Credit: ANDREW H. WALKER/SHUTTERSTOCK Pharrell Williams Credit: ANDREW H. WALKER/SHUTTERSTOCK Rachel Weisz Credit: ANDREW H. WALKER/SHUTTERSTOCK Rami Malek Credit: ANDREW H. WALKER/SHUTTERSTOCK Richard Gere Credit: ANDREW H. WALKER/SHUTTERSTOCK Rosemarie DeWitt Credit: ANDREW H. WALKER/SHUTTERSTOCK Sandra Oh Credit: ANDREW H. WALKER/SHUTTERSTOCK Sigourney Weaver Credit: ANDREW H. WALKER/SHUTTERSTOCK Susan Yeagley Credit: ANDREW H. WALKER/SHUTTERSTOCK Taraji P. Henson Credit: ANDREW H. WALKER/SHUTTERSTOCK Taron Egerton Credit: ANDREW H. WALKER/SHUTTERSTOCK Teresa Palmer Credit: ANDREW H. WALKER/SHUTTERSTOCK Valorie Curry Credit: ANDREW H. WALKER/SHUTTERSTOCK

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