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ALT El Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is not a Mexican version of Halloween. It traces back 3,000 years, a joyful, colorful, and spiritual family reunion. While Halloween is a spooky, and entertainment-focused night of thrills, horror themes and playful scares.

ALT Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi discuss 'La Bola Negra,' drawing from Federico García Lorca’s unfinished work and Spain’s queer history, preserving memory through art, balancing tragedy with joy, shooting on 35mm, and more.

ALT “Art is the thing that we inherit," says Javier Calvo. "It helps us understand who we were, what we fear, what we love, what happened to us."

ALT "I think this movie is also about that, trying to understand the past so we don’t repeat what happened. Hopefully, people connect with that idea and want to learn more about Spanish culture, about Federico García Lorca and about queer stories, because every country has so many of them," says 'La Bola Negra' co-director Javier Ambrossi

ALT "His eyes, his magnetism, his shyness, his duende. He has something magical. The camera loves him. You want to put a camera in front of him," says Javier Calvo on casting Guitarricadelafuente as Sebastián. Calvo and Ambrossi deliberately looked for queer actors to inhabit many of the film’s queer characters.

ALT "Everything he’s done and everything that’s happened to him will be informing the decisions he makes and how he moves through the world," says Tom Rhys Harries about his 'Clayface' character Matt Hagen. "As an artist, I just try to load it up with as much tension as possible." | photo by Austin Hargrave for Men's Health

ALT "I ride motorbikes. I love tweaking and tinkering with them because there’s no ambiguity to whether a bike functions or not," says Tom Rhys Harries. "I’m drawn to counterbalancing things in that way." | photo by Austin Hargrave for Men's Health

ALT "The role didn’t feel like something that was naturally in my wheelhouse. I had to spend a long time trying to feel as if I understood just a semblance of what it was about," says Tom Rhys Harries about his 'Clayface' character Matt Hagen. | photo by Austin Hargrave for Men's Health

ALT "I want to work with actors and writers and directors on projects that have something to say, because my job is to facilitate that and aid that," says Tom Rhys Harries | photo by Austin Hargrave for Men's Health

ALT Nicholas Galitzine, Bill Skarsgård, Ray Nicholson and Tom Francis, who star as real-life football players-turned-Marines in the new movie, 'The Mosquito Bowl,’ recently made a special visit to Camp Pendleton in North San Diego County, Calif. | photo Eric Ray Davidson/Netflix

ALT Nicholas Galitzine and filmmakers from 'The Mosquito Bowl' visit the Marine Corps Camp Pendleton Base. | photo Eric Ray Davidson/Netflix

ALT "We made the movie about this culture, for this culture, and so that a very large audience could understand the sacrifices that we ask of these extraordinary young men and women," says director 'The Mosquito Bowl’ Peter Berg [center] with actors Nicholas Galitzine, Bill Skarsgård, Ray Nicholson and Tom Francis. | photo Eric Ray Davidson/Netflix

ALT The cast and filmmakers from 'The Mosquito Bowl' visit the Marine Corps Camp Pendleton Base. The Mosquito Bowl is in theaters Oct. 30 and on Netflix Nov. 25 | photo Eric Ray Davidson/Netflix

ALT "In my time as a model I’ve learned that you can’t force anything, and wishing for something doesn’t make any difference. Any campaign, show, job is a new experience, and again I just try to be grateful for every opportunity that comes my way," says Jake Boffman | Photography Ronald Liem | Briefs by SKIMS

ALT "My personality is what I’ve had to work on the most in my career, believe it or not. Being nervous and quiet a lot in my first year actually affected jobs sometimes, which I had to learn to fix very quickly," says Jake Boffman | Photography Ronald Liem | Outfit by Gymshark

ALT "I have actually begun to tailor my training more towards tennis now. More cardio, longer practices, a lot of drills as well. But obviously to model I still need to keep my shape, so I just keep a clean diet and try to hit the gym when I have the time," says Jake Boffman | Photography Ronald Liem | Shirt by IUMAN Intimissimi; briefs by SKIMS

ALT " I think I do a really good job at keeping my life private. Most people who know me from social media and meet me in person are often very surprised when they come across my real personality. I’m often told it’s the opposite of what I portray on social media. I’ve taken a step back from social media, maybe I’ll come back to it one day with a more authentic approach," says Jake Boffman | Photography Ronald Liem | Outfit by EA7