{"id":100203,"date":"2017-11-20T13:54:08","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T18:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/?p=100203"},"modified":"2017-11-20T13:56:14","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T18:56:14","slug":"alpha-dia-shot-with-tim-walker-and-has-a-pirelli-calendar-to-prove-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/?p=100203","title":{"rendered":"Alpha Dia shot with Tim Walker and has a Pirelli Calendar to prove it"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Get cast for the Pirelli calendar. Check. Shoot with legendary photographer Tim Walker<\/a>. Check. Meet Alpha Dia<\/a>, one of the male stars of the all black 2018 Pirelli calendar that boasts an impressive list of notables. Before he knew it, he was in the presence of veritable royalty: Rupaul<\/a>, Naomi Campbell<\/a>, Whoopi Goldberg, Sean Combs<\/a>, along with top models Adwoa Aboah<\/a>, Slick Woods<\/a>, Duckie Thot<\/a> and more (here<\/a>). The Senegalese, Germany-based model stopped by Models.com and explained the perks that come with being on a truly iconic set for 3 days. <\/p>\n

Did you know how big of a deal Pirelli was when you got it? <\/strong>
\nNo, I didn\u2019t. I was just thinking Pirelli\u2026cars. My booker was excited on the phone and I didn\u2019t know, but after I talked to a friend and he just went down [on knees, throws hands up], “You made a major move!” So, no, I didn\u2019t know anything!<\/p>\n

Did you look at the old calendars and you\u2019re like, oh no, what am I going to be doing?<\/strong>
\nAh! Yes. I looked at it and I saw all naked pictures. So I asked my booker and they don\u2019t know before because they don\u2019t tell them anything about what it\u2019s going to be. When I arrived in London they told me Alice in Wonderland, so we had a chance to watch the movie, but I didn\u2019t know about Alice.<\/p>\n

Did you want to tell us a little bit about the rest of the cast? <\/strong>
\nOh yeah, it was really amazing, first of all, seeing the models board\u2013like Whoopi Goldberg\u2013All the models stood there holding hands like, \u201cWhat?\u201d [in disbelief]. That was amazing. Tim Walker just gave us advice on how to act: If they come on stage just be natural as you can. <\/p>\n

But inside you were freaking out?<\/strong>
\nYes, inside I was freaking out: Whoopi, Djimon Hounsou, Lupita\u2013she\u2019s oh my god. These people\u2013when they get into the room they give so much warmth. Everyone is just smiling. Whoopi is just\u2013yeah. You get that feeling. That was 3 days I\u2019ll never forget. RuPaul he\u2019s a character. I love the way he takes over everything. He has his own choice on the clothes and the makeup. When we went on set he was like, to Tim, “Can you move that that way…can you take the picture from the other side?” That was funny. <\/p>\n

What are you going to do with your calendar? <\/strong>
\nThis one is going to my mom in Africa. I\u2019m going to take it. I was asking the people at Pirelli if they can send it, but they were like, “No take it it\u2019s better.” I will be going this December for holidays. <\/p>\n

What was your personal favorite?<\/strong>
\nThando Hopa, she\u2019s a lawyer, she\u2019s a really interesting person and still young, but she was always giving us advice. You can see it in the picture, her aura is just amazing. I think people have to know more about this girl. That picture was my favorite one. Beside now I’ve had the chance to know her. I would want to go to South Africa to meet her again. She has albinism, which there\u2019s a lot of discrimination against. I learned a lot of things about that. She\u2019s fighting for people for that, she has become a lawyer and uses that power. She is so nice. <\/p>\n

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Get cast for the Pirelli calendar. Check. Shoot with legendary photographer Tim Walker. Check. Meet Alpha Dia, one of the male stars of the all black 2018 Pirelli calendar that boasts an impressive list of notables. Before he knew it, he was in the presence of veritable royalty: Rupaul, Naomi Campbell, Whoopi Goldberg, Sean Combs,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":443,"featured_media":100223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10414,2],"tags":[10609,10953,10877,584,11069,11070,10643,2372],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100203"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100236,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100203\/revisions\/100236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/100223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}