Hailee Steinfeld Talks Career-Changing Role in Sinners

A few years ago, Hailee Steinfeld, the avid pinner she is, created a Pinterest mood board titled “28.” There wasn’t a rhyme or reason to it other than the fact that, at the time, 28 felt like an ideal age to usher in change and accomplish certain life milestones. As she tells me, the slightly embarrassing hodgepodge of images only decipherable to her was effectively a representation of what she hoped her life would look like.

Coincidentally and cosmically speaking, 28 can be a year of great significance in one’s life. It’s at this time that you are said to be entering your Saturn return—an astrological event that takes place when Saturn, the planet of responsibility and maturity, returns to the position in space that it occupied when a person was born—which happens approximately every 29.5 years. Your Saturn return is a period often defined by the self-reflection, growth, and transformative challenges that can be felt between 27 and 30.

For Steinfeld, who turned 28 in December, this couldn’t be more accurate.

A career-changing role. A major haircut. New entrepreneurial endeavors. An engagement. Both professionally and personally, the actress has reached a thrilling turning point, and whether it was always written in the stars or the result of a good old-fashioned Pinterest manifestation, you can’t help but feel she was destined for this major moment.