Adele serves regal in red on the cover The Hollywood Reporter‘s Women in Entertainment issue.

Currently thrilling audiences with her blockbuster Las Vegas residency, ‘Weekends with Adele,’ the British-born belter is also riding high on the wave of her mega-selling ’30’ album and the 2024 extension of her current live series.

Beyond posing it up for a stunning shoot lensed by Ruven Afanador, Adele seizes the feature to open up about a variety of insightful topics.

Indeed, she waxes candid about new music, turning down collaborations, venturing into acting, being nervous when Lady Gaga attended her show, advice for newcomers, and more.

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On New Music:

“I get nervous about wearing my voice out [at the residency]. It’s a lot of singing. It’s two hours. It’s all live. It’s a lot. And I fucking motormouth and chat me ass off as well. But yeah, I have nothing to say yet. I haven’t even thought about it.

I have to wait for a feeling. If I get antsy, that’s when I know I have to go to the studio, and I am the opposite of antsy right now. (Laughs.)”

On How Many Collaborations She’s Turned Down:

“A lot. A lot. A lot. A lot. Some of them are just an obvious no, that I would never do. Some people ask and I’m like, “In what world do you actually think I would say yes to that?” And it doesn’t make any sense either. A couple that I’ve been like, “Oh, I want to do that,” and the timing hasn’t worked out. It’s so frustrating. The other thing is, especially if I’m in my downtime, it’s become a recurring theme for me, but after I had my child, I need to be with him. Especially nowadays — the promo of music videos and all of that — I’m not doing that for nobody. In my downtime, never. So then it’s like, “Why would they want me on it if I’m not going to go the whole way [and] do TV, videos and things like that?” There are a couple of people I would love to do it with, just because I think it could be really interesting and unexpected. There was one I wanted to do a couple of years ago. He wanted me to write the hook but with a melody in mind, and I couldn’t get the lyrics right, because I was stuck in this melody that wasn’t mine. But I would’ve loved to have done that. But I’m not anti-it. I’m not anti-it at all. I’m open to it. But also, if I do it, it has to be f*cking great.”

On Being Nervous When Lady Gaga Attended Her Residency:

“I’ve had lots of amazing people there. There’s been one there that I sh*t myself the whole show. Gaga. And I’ve spent a bit of time with her, but I rate her so hard. I was like, “The show’s terrible. It’s rubbish. I’m singing terribly. I’m not funny. My dress is rubbish this week.” I was judging myself. And she’s not like that. But she made me really, really nervous.”

On Living in LA:

“I love it. It’s still sometimes strange, but I like it because I get left alone in L.A., which sounds weird. And for anyone that has never been to L.A., you assume it would be the opposite. But there are so many famous people here that they don’t waste their time. Because if I see I’m being followed, I’ll cancel my day and I’ll drive out to Palm Springs and back. I wouldn’t say it can be frenzied sometimes elsewhere, but it’s just, I’ve got 20 minutes wherever. “Is that Adele?” By the time they realize it is, I’ve got to leave. And I just don’t get that here.

I get really bad seasonal depression, so the weather is good for me here. It is strange sometimes, because I’m very British. Because it’s a bit harder for me to go out nowadays, what I love the most about L.A. is everyone goes to each other’s houses. I like that.”

On Acting:

“No [I haven’t properly considered acting]. There is one movie I want to do, but the guy whose movie it would be, he’s not mentally ready to write the script for it.

I’m not giving you no clues, though. But I bug him every now and then about it, but he’s just not there yet. But that’s the only role I ever want. Because I think I’d nail it. I think I’d do really, really, really good at it.

On Advice for the New Talent:

“More than anything, it’s just being yourself. That’s one of the reasons I’ve been so lucky with my career — on top of the obvious of me being a white woman in music. I think people are quite scared of me, and they’ve been like that since I was 18. I don’t know what it is; I think there’s no room for negotiations when it comes to what I want to do and how I want to do it. And it’s always been like that. I think that comes across in my interviews.

I’m not going to say who they are — I see a lot of the girls, up-and-coming singers, I get in touch with them because no one ever did that to me, gave me any advice or any secret nuggets of truth or tricks of how to survive it in any way. So I have them ’round and we have some wine and I talk to them.”

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