After taking The Devil Wears Prada 2 press tour through East Asia last week, Anne Hathaway was back in New York last night, redirecting her attention to Mother Mary. She plays a popstar kinda like Lady Gaga, with performance footage in the film that is said to have been inspired by Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour. The problem is that Mother Mary is in a slump, and she needs her ex-best friend, Michaela Coel, to make her a dress so that she can perform the greatest show of her life. The film, then, is basically the two women working out their sh-t. That’s as much as we know from the trailer.

Now that the film has screened, however, we have a better idea of what Mother Mary is or isn’t. What is isn’t is a blockbuster – that was never the expectation. Annie’s blockbusters are coming later, in succession. This is independent, maybe even experimental filmmaking, and a two-hander, requiring both women to basically just eat their lines and spit them back at each other with venom. And it sounds like the movie also borders on camp which might be why William Bibbiani, in his review for The Wrap, suggests that Mother Mary might become a cult classic.

Cult classics in 2026, of course, declare themselves first on social media. So it’ll be interesting to see how this film performs in the digital space – if, that is, the digital generation can make it through a film with so much talking to get to the sexy popstar parts they want to see that are interspersed in between.

For now though, let’s preoccupy ourselves with the fashion the red carpet. Michaela Coel is in Givenchy, black pants under a satin halter with half-sleeves. I like the swing she’s taking here, opting for a look that her character (a fashion designer) might wear even though it doesn’t quite pop at this event the way it did on the runway.

Annie is in Lever Couture, also a piece that her character might wear so I totally get the choice, but it’s not my personal favourite, not when we’ve seen her in so many bangers lately. Also I wish she did something different with her hair and the shoes. It might be the shoes that are killing the whole look for me. The gold pumps were probably seen as a neutral in this situation and, like, even a crispy pair of white ones in the same style would have been an improvement.

To me the biggest serve on this carpet is FKA twigs in Ashi Studio. The trim on this corset is exquisite, the distressed skirt below all that fine detailing is exactly the right tone, and those boots just sent the whole thing over the top, wonderfully suited her personality and also the vibe of the film.

Maximilian Leo, Jeanie Igoe, Alba Baptista, Michaela Coel, David Lowery, Anne Hathaway, James Johnston, Toby Halbrooks, FKA twigs attend A24's "Mother Mary" New York Screening at Metrograph on April 13, 2026 in New York City

Michaela Coel, FKA twigs attend A24's "Mother Mary" New York Screening at Metrograph on April 13, 2026 in New York City

Photo credits: Stephen Lovekin/Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock, Roger Wong/INSTARimages

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