FASHION Magazine Summer 2015 Cover: Ashley Benson

Fashion Magazine Summer 2015 Ashley Benson
Photographed by Gabor Jurina and styled by Heidi Meek, Ashley Benson wears a dress, $8,455, Tom Ford. Hair, Cervando Maldonado for The Wall Group. Makeup, Pati Dubroff for Forward Artists. Fashion Assistant, Suzi Grgurich.

Ashley Benson may be known for playing the sweet, sly and style-obsessed Hanna Marin in the popular TV series Pretty Little Liars (Season 6 debuts June 2, 2015 on MuchMusic) but her next trio of films will change the way you think about her. Playing a ferocious warrior in this summer’s biggest video game blockbuster, Pixels, a lovelorn New Yorker in next year’s big rom-com, Chronically Metropolitan, and a Presley-obsessed fan in the upcoming Elvis & Nixon (opposite Michael Shannon—who plays Elvis and Kevin Spacey as the 37th U.S. President), Benson is all about conquering what she calls “the type cast curse.” Its something she’s been working on since she decided to star turn in 2012’s indie flick, Spring Breakers, where she played a bikini-clad girl-gone-wild whose badassery out-maneuvers a dangerous gangster played by the James Franco. On the set of her Hollywood Hills-based cover shoot with FASHION, Benson spoke to the magazine’s features editor, Elio Iannacci, on her past, present and future in film. Here is a sneak peek of the story, which lands on newsstands on May 18.

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