{"id":367631,"date":"2026-01-13T16:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T16:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/367631\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T16:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T16:34:09","slug":"teyana-taylor-has-arrived-the-veteran-star-on-her-breakout-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/367631\/","title":{"rendered":"Teyana Taylor Has Arrived: The Veteran Star on Her Breakout Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year, that business also meant a return to music. In August 2025, Taylor released Escape Room, which earned her her first Grammy nomination<\/a>, for best R&B album. Between interludes from a slew of famous friends\u2014including Henson, Nash Betts, Issa Rae, and Jodie Turner-Smith\u2014 Taylor works through heartbreak in the wake from her divorce from former NBA player Iman Shumpert<\/a>, to whom she was married from 2016 until 2023. When we spoke in October, Taylor admitted that their relationship still influences how she thinks about future romantic partnerships. \u201cDivorce, to me, is you\u2019re grieving the death of a living being,\u201d she says. \u201cI think once children are involved, you understand the importance of really still having to show up for each other. At least for the next 18 years, and being the best co-parents that we can be.\u201d But she maintains that she doesn’t \u201cwant people to start feeling scared of marriage, because marriage is a beautiful thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

For \u201cEscape Room,\u201d she also released a \u201cvisual album\u201d \u2014 a short film starring Lakeith Stanfield<\/a> and Aaron Pierre<\/a>, who she announced that she was dating in June on Instagram. The pair were first spotted together last February at the Fifteen Percent Pledge Gala, seven months after she finalized her divorce. \u201cI think we\u2019re both working our asses off and doing what we gotta do, and that\u2019s amazing,\u201d she told me when we met. But in late December, rumors that she had split with Pierre surfaced in tabloids. Taylor and Pierre have not commented publicly on their relationship status, but Taylor has an enduringly optimistic view on love and commitment. \u201cOne thing I don\u2019t do is rewrite history,\u201d she told me, speaking at the time about Shumpert, but in ways that remain relevant in the face of a fresh breakup. \u201cWhen I love, my love is real. So whatever you\u2019ve seen was a real display of love until there was no more. And that\u2019s okay.\u201d<\/p>\n

Taylor is learning a lot from this whirlwind year about the craft of acting onscreen and the performances that a press tour necessitates off-screen. She\u2019s spent a lot of time with her costars on set and in interviews and has noticed some differences working with some of Hollywood\u2019s legendary men versus the women of All\u2019s Fair.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s always been like, big brother energy. Like they are not playing about me or any of the women on set. So that\u2019s always fun. But that energy is also so protective: \u2018Wait, no, no. Make sure you get her this. No, no, don\u2019t let her walk in that puddle.\u2019 It\u2019s like, I got this, big bro. Love you. Thank you,\u201d she says, both appreciating and bristling against that sort of protection.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you\u2019re on set with all girls, you have the group chat, and it\u2019s like, chatty, and we\u2019re just having a ball, and it was like, \u2018Oh my God, does anybody have this? Oh my God, Kim, I need you to call over to Skims. I need a bra ASAP.\u2019 Our group chat is just so lit. And it\u2019s a sisterhood. You get to share more, whereas with your brothers, it\u2019s just like, Why tell my brother right now what I am going through? They\u2019re gonna be like, \u2018Who did it, where they at?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last year, that business also meant a return to music. In August 2025, Taylor released Escape Room, which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,7513,68687,139742,140664,74656,34572,59907,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-367631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-from-the-magazine","11":"tag-golden-globes","12":"tag-golden-globes-2026","13":"tag-leonardo-dicapario","14":"tag-oscars-2026","15":"tag-paul-thomas-anderson","16":"tag-sean-penn","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}