A radiant Andie MacDowell went for some old-fashioned va-va-voom in an Elie Saab gown in coral on the Cannes red carpet. The 57-year-old Cedar Cove star wore a cinched, column look for the Monday evening premiere of Pixar's latest offering Inside Out. The setting sun glistened off the gown's sparkling embellishments as MacDowell outshone many actresses half her age in the daring V-neck outfit.
Hollywood heads to China
Chinese actress Li Bing Bing is a superstar in her native land, but only recently started becoming familiar to international audiences. Her co-starring role in Transformers: Age of Extinction helped solidify her success overseas. But she doesn't feel the need to go to Hollywood, since Hollywood is coming to China these days. "There's a shift in the global movie box office. China is a huge box-office market," she said, pointing to the blockbuster success of Transformers 4 and Furious 7 in China. "It shook up Hollywood. Both of the films made more money in China than they did in the US. The world is changing and a lot of things are leaning towards this part of the world," Li said. "So it doesn't matter if we go [to Hollywood], or they come to us, for sure you will see more collaborations in the future."
Turturro channels stars’ ugly side
John Turturro drew on three decades of experience in the movie business for his role as a disruptive, egomaniacal actor in Nanni Moretti's Cannes entry My Mother. But he won't name names. "I've seen behaviour way more extreme than that from lots of people," Turturro said of his character, an American star who wreaks havoc on the set of an Italian drama. "And from directors, too." Moretti's tragicomedy, one of 19 competing for the Palme d'Or, centres on a director whose latest project is coming unstuck, even as her mother is dying. Turturro provides much of the film's humour. "I've seen all kinds of crazy behaviour," said Turturro. "People are thrown together, a high-pressure situation. There is a vulnerability factor there. Also, people are lonely. They're unmoored from their families, from reality, and they can become crazy and very needy."
Farrell is happy to be flying solo
In his new sci-fi movie The Lobster, Colin Farrell plays a single man who must find a committed relationship or risk being transformed into an animal. In real life, he's unattached – and says he is in no rush to change his status. "In my life I've had relationships with women that weren't in the public eye that have been pulled into the public eye as a result of the nonsense of celebrity and being close to me, and I hate that and I hated that for them," he said. "And so that would be just another thing that would lead into my reticence to being in a relationship."
