Supreme Skateboarder/Model Na-Kel Smith Gets All GQ + is Acting in Jonah Hill’s New Movie
Skateboarding and fashion collide once again as GQ picks up where Vogue left off, by claiming Na-Kel Smith to be fashions latest multi-hyphenate wunderkid. Kid is killing it almost as much as Blondey McCoy right now, who is pretty much untouchable now that he’s hanging out with Kate Moss and Damien Hirst.
Wannabe skateboarding celeb Jonah Hill is all over Na-Kel though tapping him to star in his new movie. Skateboarding first though, always.
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Smith is also being preemptively hailed as the breakout star of Jonah Hill’s forthcoming A24 film Mid ’90s, which Mikey is co-producing and which Smith filmed during a break from the next Supreme video. In a recent Instagram post, Hill called Smith’s performance “extraordinary,” and Smith’s already auditioning for future roles. How does Smith feel about all this? “It’s like Tetris,” he says slowly and thoughtfully, the way he always speaks. “I really liked that game, I used to play on my Game Boy all the time. It’s just like, well, I gotta do this, so I gotta move this piece to fit there so it will all work out.” Smith’s mind and style are singularly his, and his strategy of only working with people who want to work with him has clearly been, well, working out. “This is my track record now,” he says. “I got to do better than last year. I gotta go more outfield and do something else. I don’t really even think about it. Like, I never sit back just get to be stoked about life.”
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