Maya Hawke Jokes About Set Sex as Mckenna Grace Says “I Don’t Do Nudity”: Inside Cosmo’s Hunger Games Covers

By Nico Grey · Published Nov 2, 2026, 9:18 PM (BKK)

I’ve been behind the camera since 2001 and shot more than 2,000 scenes, so I know what happens when you put three actresses in cut-out bodysuits on one bed: everybody finds out where her line is. Cosmopolitan just did exactly that with the new girls of The Hunger Games, and the answers could not be more different.

Maya Hawke, Whitney Peak and Mckenna Grace are Cosmopolitan’s Winter 2026 cover stars, three separate covers shot by the photographer Richard Kern to sell The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, in theaters Nov. 20. Cosmopolitan put the covers and three long interviews online on Monday, Nov. 2, 2026 (Cosmopolitan), and X did the rest: Film Updates posted the group shots with the line “Maya Hawke, Whitney Peak and Mckenna Grace stun for Cosmopolitan,” and Pop Crave and Cosmopolitan itself followed within minutes.

The looks: all three in matching cut-out bodysuits by Lucila Safdie with white socks, lying on a bed and balancing hardcovers on their heads. On the solo covers, Maya wears a red Prada dress with her bra on show, Whitney poses topless in Chanel pants with her arm across her chest, and Mckenna wears Miu Miu and holds her dog, Scooby Doo.

The photos: Cosmopolitan’s Hunger Games covers by Richard Kern

The Film Updates post had about 646,000 views and 11,300 likes when we checked at about 9 p.m. Bangkok time on Nov. 2, 2026, the biggest celebrity post from the major pop accounts in the previous 12 hours. Its solo posts for Mckenna (74,000 views) and Maya (47,000) and Pop Crave’s group post (41,000) added more. The photos are the versions shared on X and by Cosmopolitan, re-hosted with our watermark.

Maya Hawke on set: “We have to have sex right now”

Maya, 28, plays Wiress, the brilliant District 3 victor, and she was the most fun to read. She shot Sunrise on the Reaping back-to-back with the romantic comedy One Night Only, whose premise is that, by law, everyone gets only one night to figure out love. Her running joke on the Hunger Games set, she told Cosmopolitan, was to turn to the actor playing her fellow victor Beetee and say: “Beetee, we have to have sex right now. We’ve got two hours, let’s go!” (Cosmopolitan)

Then she got serious about it, sort of: “Government control in your bed? Horrible. … I want to be able to explore love on my terms. Bedtime TV, sex, kissing, and love. I mean, who would I be without these things? It would be punishment and torture.”

A few more things she told the magazine: an ex-boyfriend once called her an “AMW,” short for “actress, model, whatever”; she feels most confident in Milan working with Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons; she married the singer-songwriter Christian Lee Hutson on Valentine’s Day and chose not to sell the wedding photos; and she calls herself “a hopeless romantic.”

Mckenna Grace draws her line: “I definitely don’t do nudity”

Mckenna, 20, plays the District 12 tribute Maysilee Donner and her twin sister, Merrilee. She has been acting since she was 5, and she was the one who answered the question everybody at Scandal Planet wanted asked. Which roles would she turn down? “At this point, I definitely don’t do nudity or very hypersexual things. I respect anybody who can, but it’s terrifying to me. I don’t know if that’ll ever change. It’s not like I only do wholesome things… but my dream is to try and be a Disney princess someday” (Cosmopolitan).

She is also openly in love. She calls her boyfriend, her Regretting You co-star Mason Thames, “my best friend,” says “your girl is happy,” and has no plans to hide it: “I don’t see the point in not celebrating who you’re in love with.” She plays Daphne in Netflix’s upcoming Scooby-Doo: Origins, which explains the dog’s name.

Whitney Peak goes topless for her cover

Whitney, 23, plays Lenore Dove Baird, Haymitch Abernathy’s great love. She broke out as Zoya Lott in HBO Max’s Gossip Girl reboot, played the teenage Becca in Hocus Pocus 2 and has a partnership with Chanel. She told Cosmopolitan she is “not super online” and doesn’t see herself as a public figure, and that she first met Rachel Zegler, who played Lucy Gray Baird in the last Hunger Games film, by chance on the street two months ago (Cosmopolitan). Her cover is the boldest of the three: bare-chested, one arm across her breasts, Chanel pants and belt.

One more thing. Richard Kern isn’t a name you hire by accident. He’s a New York photographer with decades of underground film and nude photography behind him, and Cosmopolitan put him on its Hunger Games issue. Read into that what you like. I know I did.

Maya Hawke’s boldest scenes

The Cosmo shoot is the tease. These are the moments where Maya actually takes it off. Rolling Stone called her Thérèse video, the first single from her 2022 album Moss, “orgy-themed” (Rolling Stone). The Kathy Acker short is Aïda Ruilova’s seven-minute film about the writer exploring her identity “through sex and writing” (IMDb), and Mainstream is Gia Coppola’s 2020 satire, with Maya as Frankie opposite Andrew Garfield (Wikipedia).

See every Maya Hawke scene, with photos and her latest news, on her hub →

How we got here

• 2022: Maya releases the Thérèse video, directed by Brady Corbet, the first single from her album Moss (Rolling Stone).
• Summer 2026: her romantic comedy One Night Only comes out; she is now filming the thriller The God of the Woods (Cosmopolitan).
• Nov. 2, 2026: Cosmopolitan publishes the Winter 2026 covers and interviews; the photos go viral on X within an hour (Film Updates).
• Nov. 20, 2026: The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping opens in theaters (Cosmopolitan).
• Early 2027: Maya’s romantic fantasy Wishful Thinking is due (Cosmopolitan).

What’s confirmed

Confirmed: the three covers, the photographer, the styling credits and every quote above, from Cosmopolitan’s four articles published Nov. 2, 2026; the X numbers, as we saw them at about 9 p.m. Bangkok time; the Thérèse, Kathy Acker and Mainstream details (Rolling Stone, IMDb, Wikipedia). Not confirmed: who Maya’s Beetee is in the film; Cosmopolitan didn’t name the actor in the quote. Opinion: everything in Nico’s take.

FAQ

Who is on the Cosmopolitan Winter 2026 cover?

Three stars of The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping each got their own cover: Maya Hawke, Whitney Peak and Mckenna Grace. Cosmopolitan published the cover stories on Nov. 2, 2026, all photographed by Richard Kern and styled by Chloe Grace Press.

What did Maya Hawke say about sex in Cosmopolitan?

Talking about One Night Only, a romantic comedy about a government that gives people one night to find love, she said her running joke on the Hunger Games set was telling her co-star: “Beetee, we have to have sex right now. We’ve got two hours, let’s go!” She added that she wants to explore love on her own terms: “Bedtime TV, sex, kissing, and love. I mean, who would I be without these things?”

Does Mckenna Grace do nude scenes?

No. Asked by Cosmopolitan which roles she would turn down, the 20-year-old said: “At this point, I definitely don’t do nudity or very hypersexual things. I respect anybody who can, but it’s terrifying to me. I don’t know if that’ll ever change.”

Who do Maya Hawke, Whitney Peak and Mckenna Grace play in Sunrise on the Reaping?

Maya Hawke plays Wiress, the District 3 victor; Whitney Peak plays Lenore Dove Baird, Haymitch’s great love; Mckenna Grace plays the District 12 tribute Maysilee Donner and her twin sister Merrilee. The film is in theaters Nov. 20, 2026.

Has Maya Hawke done nude scenes?

Yes. She is topless in her own 2022 music video Thérèse, directed by Brady Corbet, and in the 2019 short film Memory Xperiment: Kathy Acker, and she flashes her bottom in Gia Coppola’s Mainstream (2020). The clips are on her Scandal Planet hub.

— Nico. Three covers, three answers, one Hunger Games. The girl who says yes is on her hub.

Fact-check: Scandal Planet Desk

Cosmopolitan Winter 2026 photos by Richard Kern, as shared on X; behind-the-scenes clip as shared on X. Scene clips from Thérèse, Memory Xperiment: Kathy Acker and Mainstream. ScandalPlanet watermark only.

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