Justin Timberlake Covers The New York Times Magazine Fall 2013 Issue
Justin Timberlake Strips His Career Down To The Bare Bones For T Magazine (PHOTOS)
After his highly-anticipated return to music, a tour with Jay Z, and a marriage to one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood, it’s safe to say Justin Timberlake is the celebrity everyone wants to know more about. T Magazine had the ability to score a rare serious reflective moment with the singer-turned-actor-turned-mogul-turned-singer-again for T, The New York Times Style Magazine Men’s Fashion Fall 2013 issue.
In the profile of the former boy band member’s career gone right, Justin opens up about his moves, his change of attitude towards the industry that made him, but broke plenty others, and drops some enlightening insight about the age that some consider the “gray area.” To elevate the editorial, there are also some shots of Justin looking down right proper – like the only man who could actually bring sexy back.
Check out the snaps and some quotes from JT’s interview below.
“I try to talk to people about how much acting goes into music,” he says. “How much of a character goes into what you put on stage. You ever sit down with Jay? He’s not the guy he is on stage. I’m not the guy I am on stage. I am a performer. It’s an elevated idea.”
“I’m 32,” he says over coffee this summer in downtown Manhattan. “I know that I’m still young, but I’ve been in this business two-thirds of my life and you just learn that some things are accepted the way you hope and some aren’t…You get to this point, which I’ve done in the last five or six years, where you become less worried about success and failure,” he says, speaking of “20/20.”
I’m sure there’s some self-help cheese-ball book about the gray area,” he says, “but I’ve been having this conversation with my friends who are all about the same age and I’m saying, ‘Y’know, life doesn’t happen in black and white.’ The gray area is where you become an adult . . . the medium temperature, the gray area, the place between black and white. That’s the place where life happens.”
Justin then goes on to confirm, and elaborate on, his release of the second part of 20/20:
“If you could imagine you’re 16 and she’s everything you thought. She’s Marilyn Monroe and then you meet her older sister; everything that’s dark and wrong about her at that age is why you become infatuated with her.” Hot, older “20/20″ will be supported by a major arena tour this fall.
We’ll be looking forward to that!
