“Because I didn’t think it represented me well.” Such are the anxieties of an actor who started young (acting professionally at eight in his native Australia, then, getting his Hollywood break, at 12, opposite Viggo Mortensen in the dystopian thriller The Road) and at 25 is still navigating the vagaries of a developing career.
“It’s something I’ve tried not to talk about,” Smit-McPhee says to me, over cappuccino in Manhattan. It means that Smit-McPhee, who is six feet two, slender as a reed, and dressed on the morning I meet him in a soft mohair Song for the Mute jacket, lives with pain, sometimes a lot of it. He suffers from a condition called Ankylosing spondylitis, an autoimmune disease that irreversibly affects the spine and joints. And it turns out that Kodi Smit-McPhee-who is probably the most exciting young actor to vie for awards this season-actually has. It’s not so much his height but the way he carries it, gracefully and a little delicately, as if he’s learned to move carefully through space. Produced by Block Productions Photographed by Tess Ayano, Vogue, January 2022 “I had to learn to kind of transmute from the victim into…a warrior,” says Smit-McPhee, in a Gucci coat.
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