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Right after seeing the medium, Condor got on a plane to St. Barths, where she and De La Torre spent the following week soaking in sunshine on their belated honeymoon. “We had delayed it for a long time, but it was honestly the best time to do it,” she says. “I get on the plane and I tell my husband, ‘I’m ready to see the beauty in the world and I’m so excited to be alive every second.’”
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She loves that “nostalgic factor” so much that she bought her husband, Anthony De La Torre, a refurbished Game Boy for Valentine’s Day this year. The duo, who got married in October 2024, famously love to play video games together (Expedition 33 is their current favorite), and their decade-long relationship is one that fans have followed as closely as Lara Jean’s in “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before.”
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Lana Condor for the first time, it feels like I’ve known her forever. She has the easy warmth of a friend from childhood, someone you want to spill your secrets to. We’re sitting in a crowded, chaotic studio space, trying to keep our voices down, but she laughs freely, tipping her head back like we’re rehashing old inside jokes.
Apparently, I’m not the only one who feels this way. When Condor landed in New York City last night from Los Angeles, a fan stopped her in the airport. “She was like, ‘I just wanted to tell you that I grew up with you,’” Condor recounts. “It was so amazing, but she also seemed like she was my age. I was like, oh my god, now it’s ‘I grew up with you’ vibes, which is so crazy to me.”
That’s why it feels fitting that we’re crowning Condor our Feel-Good Romantic as part of our inaugural Feel-Good List, which celebrates the people, places, and moments bringing us joy by looking back.
It feels divinely timed that Condor’s latest film, “Pretty Lethal,” premieres at SXSW on March 13; she started filming the action-thriller five days after her mom passed, when she “couldn’t fathom going back to work.” But, like her love of nostalgia, escaping into another reality ended up being exactly what she needed: “You still have to face
it when the day is done, but being around people creating
a whole world that doesn’t exist and being able to be someone else is incredibly healing.”
I realize then that maybe it’s Condor’s openhearted approach to life and loss and love that makes her feel undeniably human. Her vulnerability is a reminder that we’re all still healing, that we’re all still growing up together.
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For Condor, that looked like buying an iPod Nano off of eBay last year; she “missed the ability to go on a walk and not be reachable.” So now, she’ll put on her headphones, scroll through her iPod, find the theme song from “The Devil Wears Prada,” press play, and get transported to a simpler time.
Condor, a self-described “big romanticizer of all things,” is, like the rest of us, obsessed with nostalgia right now. “I crave — and I think a lot of us do — a little bit of a fucking quieter, chiller time,” she says. “Everything is so crazy. And I think that’s why we’re reaching so desperately toward the things that made sense to us, and gave us peace, and didn’t overcomplicate everything.”
For Condor, married life now feels mostly the same as the early days, except that the idea of building a family feels “a lot more real.” She picks fights differently, too: “Before, if he sneezed wrong, I’d be like, ‘Stop it!’ Now, it’s like, don’t sweat the small stuff. It’s forever.”
Condor bounces between humor and wisdom often, ticking off her Taurus-like qualities in one moment and musing about grief in the next. All of a sudden, she jumps up and runs to grab her daily planner, which is filled with neat, color-coded lists. She wants to show me the stencils she uses to plan each day. “When I’m organizing my brain, I feel better. Full stop,” she says, running her hands tenderly over the handwritten pages. “I’m like a psycho with these stencils.”
The most recent pages are packed; it’s been an eventful few weeks, and not just because Condor has been traveling for this shoot and NYFW events. She leans in closer to me, and tells me she’s actually just had a “life-changing” experience. A week and a half ago, she continues, she had her first medium reading to connect with her mom, who passed away in July 2024. Condor says the content of her conversation with the medium was “undeniable proof” that her mom is still here in some form.
“What was expressed to me and what only she would know was so specific, and it just genuinely healed me,” she says. “Everyone believes in something different, but for me, just knowing that her love and spirit is still here — it’s wild. It was amazing.”
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