There are a few things GQ Global Creativity Awards winner Hunter Schafer can't live without. From her Polaroid camera and Shiseido eyepatches to a Halo Mini portable light and some watercolors, here are the Euphoria star's essentials.Read Hunter Schafer's GQ Global Creativity Awards profile.Director: Kristen DeVoreDirector of Photography: Ricardo PomaresEditor: Paul TaelGuest: Hunter SchaferProducer: Sam DennisSenior Producer: Elizabeth HalberstadtLine Producer: Jen SantosProduction Manager: James PipitoneProduction and Equipment Manager: Kevin BalashTalent Booker: Dana MathewsCamera Operator: Oliver LukacsSound Mixer: Paul CornettProduction Assistant: Fernando BarajasPost Production Supervisor: Rachael KnightPost Production Coordinator: Ian BryantSupervising Editor: Rob LombardiAdditional Editor: Jason MaliziaAssistant Editor: Andy Morell
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00:00 Not to say that I need this particular snail slushie, but I do need something
00:06 It's like a binky is honestly what it is. Hi GQ. I'm Hunter Schaefer and these are my essentials
00:12 This is my Polaroid
00:25 It's pretty amazing because it's got autofocus which is not a thing with a lot of Polaroids. I love having this
00:32 Particularly when I'm on set with a bunch of beautiful actors and beautiful sets and locations
00:39 I kind of just feel like a duty to
00:42 Capture everything and they're really fabulous
00:46 Pieces of history that I get to like take home with me. I have so many good ones from
00:52 Euphoria and from Cuckoo. There's a really beautiful body of photographs that I think I'm gonna put out in the world somehow
01:00 These are my jeans I have a lot of jeans
01:08 But this is basically the only pair that I wear. I got them a few years ago
01:15 They're a Margiela in general like with a pant
01:19 I love like a relaxed fit and the color is kind of perfect. I mean obviously blue jeans go with just about everything
01:26 They're not totally boring either. They've got like this fun little detail with muslin peeking out of the pocket. It's comfortable
01:33 I sleep in them a lot of the time. I first got interested in
01:38 Fashion like when I was a kid and I was drawing a bunch of comics and I realized like what I liked about making characters
01:44 Was drawing their outfits
01:48 Next we have Shiseido eye patches
01:51 I wasn't really an eye patch girly until maybe like last year
01:57 I fly so much that obviously dries out your skin on the airplane and
02:04 It's like a lot for your skin to go through
02:07 These are like a nice way to get some moisture back in your face and feel kind of like
02:14 Fabulous when you're cooped up on the plane. They have like a bunch of goo which I think just really kind of helps with like
02:21 The hydrating moment you can like, you know put it wherever. I mean, they're really cute
02:25 They look like little sea creatures or something
02:28 I'm not gonna put it on my face because I have makeup right now and I'm still in the middle of a photo shoot
02:32 But like it's super gooey and kind of cold and sweet. They're really yummy and they smell good
02:38 *music*
02:40 I've like drawn and painted ever since I was a kid
02:49 I mean I thought I was gonna like do art with my life and it's still something that I want to keep up
02:54 Shiseido sent these watercolors to me as a gift. They are just
02:59 Gorgeous pigments. I'm gonna show a few little pigments just to like show how gorgeous they are
03:07 Wet and on the paper. This one is one of my favorites because it's like so kooky and kind of acidic. It's gorgeous
03:14 It sort of maintains like some moisture in the palette
03:18 You can kind of like gunk it up and layer which is really nice because sometimes watercolor can feel
03:24 Really thin and then you have to like let it dry and do a bunch of layers when I've directed music videos
03:30 I usually water color the storyboards because I'm like very visual and getting my ideas across
03:36 Yellow is my favorite color in the world. It's oh so bright. It's like a much quieter sort of less
03:44 Social form of art than what I do for a living. I want to use these for the rest of my life
03:50 It's so pretty
03:53 These are tuck kits by a brand called
03:58 Unclockable I really wanted to bring these and show these off today because they are really useful
04:05 For the dolls or anybody who needs to tuck I have them on my rider or
04:11 Every photo shoot thing I ever do it's like cute and it comes with detailed
04:18 Instructions on how to do a tuck because nobody likes tucking. It's not really fun
04:24 Beforehand, I kind of just been winging it with like tape sometimes even duct tape, which is not fun
04:32 This is like the most comfortable option I've ever had and I also just love that. It's like by trans people for trans people
04:39 These are my headphones I prefer a wired headphone
04:47 These are great for the plane or being on set and you want to tune everything out
04:53 I use music as like an emotional cue sometimes for work even within
04:59 Dysphoria, I would have different playlists for like different relationships. I have the different characters
05:04 I also find just in life
05:07 I kind of listen to something like really intensely until I tire it out and then I just like don't touch it for a while
05:14 And then when that piece of music comes back into my life
05:17 It's sort of like when you smell like a scent and it takes you back to a point in life when that scent was around
05:24 I feel like music does the same thing for me like if I ever miss
05:29 Euphoria pure heroin by Lorde was like my album to kind of get in like to that
05:34 angsty high schooler
05:37 Teenage girl who's sad headspace. I would listen to pure heroin a lot
05:42 This is a little snail plushie not to say that I need this particular snail
05:51 But I do need something of this squishy sweet
05:57 Nature, I just saw this when I was in Japan and my heart left
06:02 I knew that it needed to come home with me
06:06 So I've literally had this with me for like two months straight now
06:10 It's really great because it fits in a purse or a pocket
06:15 whatever I need something to touch or look at because it's so
06:21 Fucking cute. Wait, can I curse whatever? It's like a binky is honestly what it is if that makes me an
06:28 Adult baby then so be it. I
06:31 Have a really big problem with overhead lighting
06:36 It's you know something that's hard to have a problem with because it's everywhere all the time
06:41 But I do what I can to control
06:45 Locations and circumstances where I can this light in particular is by a brand called
06:50 Halo edition the light that these produce is like a huge orb
06:55 It makes a giant circle and it does this just like gorgeous
06:59 Gradient you turn off all the lights in like your trailer and bask in
07:03 beautiful sunset
07:06 It is also very important to have portable forms of entertainment with me because there's a lot
07:15 of sitting around and waiting when you're an actor or
07:19 Traveling or whatever
07:21 So I usually like to keep cards around and these ones are really special because they're ponyo themed my sister gave these to me
07:28 They have beautiful stills of the movie
07:31 They're so cute and ponyo is like one of my favorite films ever
07:35 One of my favorite games in the world is called Farquharl. It's a dice game
07:39 You actually need six dice, but I have four here
07:42 So I couldn't play Farquharl right now if I wanted to it gets really competitive. It's kind of like half strategy half chance
07:48 To kind of raise the stakes a little you can bet I did get Anne Hathaway to play Farquharl with us
07:56 She got really into it before she had to start
07:59 Filming we had to finish the game without her because you know, she was the lead of the movie
08:04 She had a lot to do but when she was involved she was in on it and she was really good at it also
08:09 *music*
08:11 These might just look like legal pads, but these kind of single-handedly keep my life together
08:21 I'm a to-do list person. It's the only way I can remember to do anything
08:28 These come with me everywhere
08:30 It's lined and there's a little margin for the checkbox in there checking it off is
08:36 The best feeling it's pretty up there as far as like dopamine hits go if for some reason I don't have this I will
08:45 Try and make it to do list like in the notes on my phone. I never look at it again. I don't know
08:50 *music*
08:52 (upbeat music)