Andre Bellos Returns to ‘Force’ and Turns Fashion into a Loud, Loving Conversation
By: One World Publishing
On a recent afternoon, Andre Bellos tells a story that plays like a scene from a warm family dramedy. His phone lights up with a call from his mom. She’s been scrolling. She’s seen the skirts, the heels, the saturated color, the sharp new hairstyles. She doesn’t recognize this wardrobe, at least not on her son. “What are all these clothes I see you wearing on the internet?” she asks. Bellos, an actor and activist whose charisma tends to arrive a beat before he does, leans into the moment. It’s just entertainment, he assures her. It’s art. He invokes Selena, David Bowie, Michael Jackson, Madonna, artists who pushed their audiences by pushing themselves. There’s a pause. Then his mother lands the punchline with perfect timing: “I never seen Michael Jackson wear a skirt!”
Bellos laughs as he recounts it, and the laugh says as much as the clothes. The tension between his fresh creative phase and an older generation’s expectations is not a crisis for him. It is material. It is the point of the conversation he wants to have with his audience as he steps back in front of the camera for the third and final season of Force on Starz. He appears in the first three episodes, 301, 302, and 303, airing on November 7, 14, and 21. It is his first acting job in a year, a return that reminds casting directors what he can do on screen while inviting viewers into the broader performance of his life: the way he dresses, the way he frames himself, the way he insists that wardrobe can be both costume and credo.
As a journalist, I’ve long believed the most compelling screen presences are assembled off-screen. They grow from the quiet convictions people carry into rooms where a camera waits. Bellos’s conviction is simple. Clothes are not a mask. They are a microphone turned up just enough that you can’t ignore the message. After a quieter stretch professionally, he twisted the dial on his aesthetic, trading a conservative silhouette for what he calls “walking art.” The phrase is not tossed off. It is the organizing principle of a lookbook that flips categories like index cards. Men’s suiting with a satin slash. A slinky skirt paired with a square-shouldered jacket. Heels that turn posture into optimism. The choices are provocative by design and personal in their origin.
“Growing up, I thrifted with my mom,” he says. “When she shopped at Walmart, I wandered the magazine aisle and stared at the covers of Vogue and Vanity Fair. I’d think, I hope to look like one of those stars one day.” The enchantment of those covers lingers in his styling now. Not as literal homage, but as attitude. His recent looks carry an editorial confidence, a sense that each outfit arrives with its own headline and subhead already written.
If you’re forming an opinion about those clothes, Bellos wants you to know he is, too. That is where the editorial feature hides inside the profile. He is not trying to erase the discomfort his look might provoke in certain circles, including his own family. He is staging it, lighting it, and inviting everyone to talk. The topic is not scandal. The topic is freedom. And the clothes are not a referendum on faith or family. They are a bridge between generations, between conservative roots and creative futures, between a mother’s worry and a son’s insistence that art is how he tells the truth.
Q: You’re back on Force for episodes 301 to 303. What did stepping onto that set after a year away from acting feel like?
Andre Bellos: Like that first breath after you’ve been holding it. I love being on set, the rhythm and the energy, and Force let me flex again. It felt like the universe saying, “You still belong here.” I want people to tune in and see the work, not just the wardrobe.
Q: Your fashion evolution has sparked conversation. Some people celebrate it, others question it. Was that the plan?
Bellos: The plan was honesty. I can be conservative in life, but at heart I’m wildly creative. I wasn’t booking as many roles, so I thought, Let me show another side. Fashion became my canvas. I’m not trying to shock anyone. I’m trying to express myself. If it reads as edgy, that’s because I’m not afraid of color, heels, or mixing men’s and women’s pieces. That’s how my art speaks.
Q: What did that phone call with your mom teach you?
Bellos: That love and concern can live in the same sentence. She’s worried about what people will say. I told her, “Mom, it’s just art.” I compared myself to the artists I admire: Selena, Bowie, Michael, Madonna. She goes, “I never seen Michael Jackson wear a skirt!” I laughed. Underneath the joke is the exact conversation I want with fans. It’s okay to feel unsure. Let’s talk about it. Let’s humanize the artist and the audience.
Bellos’s style shift is not a distraction from the work. It is context. When actors recalibrate how they’re seen, they are asking a new question: what stories do I carry when I walk in the door? Bellos’s answer is ownership. That choice makes his turn on Force feel like a relaunch with intent. It is not an attempt to outshine the narrative. It is a pledge to meet it with a fuller self.
There is also a practical angle. In an era when artists are brands whether they want to be or not, wardrobe becomes press, press becomes booking, and booking becomes momentum. Bellos understands the loop. He is not outsourcing his image to algorithms or waiting for a costume department to define him. He is doing what those magazine covers once did for him in the Walmart aisle. He is setting an aspiration and stepping inside it.
The deeper resonance of his story is the intergenerational edge. Bellos frames his style as a love letter to kids who want to be artists but lack an outlet, and to parents who fear what the neighbors might think. He is saying, with a smile wide enough to hold disagreement, that clothes are practice for courage. If that courage looks like a pleated skirt and a confident heel, the point is not the hemline. The point is the permission.
Watch Force on Starz. Andre Bellos appears in Episodes 301, 302, and 303, airing Friday nights on November 7, 14, and 21 at 8:00 PM ET. Watch the acting. Clock the fits if you want. Stay for the artist at the center of both.
