Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love premiered at the BFI London Film Festival today. Robert Pattinson was a no-show, but Jennifer Lawrence turned up alongside Ramsay. Earlier, I commented on Kristen Stewart’s severe bangs, and here JLaw is rocking bangs of her own, though this is a softer, Seventies style fringe. Seventies style has always worked really well for JLaw, and she’s on-theme with her plunging black halter dress and torque necklace. She looks great.

 

JLaw also appeared on The Graham Norton Show and talked about how Ramsay had her and RPattz do interpretive dance lessons together, which ultimately led to them doing a naked dance together. Are we actually shocked? RPattz is a confirmed eccentric, and JLaw has always been down with bawdy humor, and to some extent that has camouflaged her artistic ambitions. She’s more accessible than some of her peers, but she IS a serious artist, just like RPattz, KStew, etc. 

 

Anyway, I’m not surprised Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson did weird and wild things on set. I just hope no one makes this about Lynne Ramsay abusing power, because it sounds like JLaw had fun, and she’s talking about Ramsay as THE artistic collaboration of her career so far. But I do fear we’ve reached a point where stuff like this will automatically be assumed to be some kind of pressure/abuse situation. JLaw even says her fellow guests, Tessa Thompson and Bruce Springsteen, seemed “quite shocked” by her anecdote and wonders, “Should I have said no?” If you’re genuinely unbothered by it, then no, but I fear no one will ever believe that.

 

What else happened today…

I can already tell “hotel hopping” isn’t for me. I prefer to spend a little time on my first day in a new city figuring out the public transport system. I’d rather ride a bus than constantly be repacking my things and checking in and out of various hotels. (Popsugar)

The Nobody Wants This season two premiere was last night in Los Angeles. Kristen Bell wore a red slip dress. I would like it more without the asymmetrical hem. It’s just one too many designs elements on what should have been a sleek, simple, yet sexy dress. (Go Fug Yourself)

I am with Kylie Kelce, I don’t like it when couples say, “we’re pregnant”. Unless you’re a lesbian couple and you’re both pregnant at the same time, no, WE are not pregnant, SHE is pregnant. I like Kylie’s alternative, “we’re expecting”. Yes, as a couple, you are expecting. You are both expectant parents. But only SHE is pregnant. I’ve gotten on men in my life for this “we’re pregnant” stuff, even from the most well-intentioned, excited-expectant-dad, it feels like men shoehorning themselves into the pregnancy experience. I have no horse in this race as a childfree woman, I fully admit that, but it irritates me to no end. I bet people get on Kylie for saying this, but she’s right. (Celebitchy)

 

“Women don’t like the vehicle” entered the pop culture lexicon this week following a story in Wired profiling owners of Tesla Cybertrucks, which have become political lightning rods in our extremely divided society, due in no small part to Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s role in that division. This article has everything: A guy who stormed the Capitol, ugly ass car wraps, multiple stock traders, a guy admitting he can’t see out of the windshield, and the now-iconic confession: “I was married, but I’m not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle.”

Let’s be honest, there were definitely problems in that marriage before the Cybertruck, but the Cybertruck is endemic of the sort of person whose wife leaves him and he’s totally shocked, can’t believe she did that, yadda yadda. As funny as that moment is, though, what really sticks out is how many people like the Cybertruck because of its aesthetic, because of the community that comes with owning one, and several owners say they keep toys on hand to pass out to kids who like their truck. Honestly? It reminds me of the Jeep community, in which Jeep drivers wave to one another and leave rubber duckies for each other when they’re parked in public.

 

But there is no ignoring everything the Cybertruck has come to represent, and while some of these truck owners probably don’t deserve to constantly get flipped off for their choice of vehicle, well…some of them probably do. Like it’s wild that one of the truck owners dismisses politics as Musk’s “sideline”. Baby, he ran DOGE, he f-cked up a significant chunk of the US government and it will take years, if not decades to repair the damage. There’s a strong whiff of privilege in these profiles, which isn’t shocking because Cybertrucks are expensive, so these are largely the type of people who can afford to ignore politics. 

Also, the divorced guy is using the Tesla/Grok AI assistant, Aura, for therapy. Someone keep an eye on that guy. (Wired)

Photo credits: Backgrid, Doug Peters/ Ben Whitley/ PA Images/ INSTARimages

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