Tyriq Withers Is Blitzing Through Hollywood

If Tyriq Withers is attempting to blend in, he’s not doing a great job of it. The 20-something actor has just stepped into the Lower Manhattan restaurant where we’re meeting for dinner dressed the way most 20-somethings visiting New York might: baggy jeans, high-top Nike Dunks, a vintage Mets tee. It’s late May, so neither of his two big 2025 movies—July’s I Know What You Did Last Summer reboot and this month’s Jordan Peele–produced football horror flick Him—have hit theaters. And yet, simply by nature of his six-foot-five frame, Michelangelo statue bone structure, and gravity-well aura, the small handful of diners he strode past on his way to our corner booth all turned their heads, seeming to clock that he must be somebody.