Naomi Ackie is elegant in white dress with cutaway shoulders in Cannes
Naomi Ackie looks elegant in a flowing white floor-length dress with cut-out shoulders at the Cannes Film Festival premiere of The Zone of Interest
Naomi Ackie showed off her elegant sense of style as she walked the red carpet at the premiere of The Zone of Interest at France’s 76th Cannes Film Festival on Friday.
The actress, 31, wore a floor-length Valentino FW23 RTW white dress with openwork shoulders, with a long train that raced across the floor behind her.
She wore a pair of silver open-toed heels to add a few inches to her stature and smiled broadly as she posed upon arrival at the event.
The Star Wars star wore a lot of makeup to emphasize her beautiful features, including a bold red lip.
The Zone Of Interest, which premiered Friday at Cannes, is directed by Jonathan Glazer and is loosely based on the 2014 novel by Martin Amis.
In style: Naomi Ackie, 31, showed off her elegant sense of style as she walked the red carpet at the premiere of The Zone of Interest at the 76th Cannes Film Festival in France on Friday
Fashion focus: The actress wore a floor-length Valentino FW23 RTW white dress with cut-off shoulders, with a long train that swept the floor behind her
The synopsis reads: ‘An Auschwitz commander and his wife strive to make a good life for their small family in a garden pavilion not far from the camp.
“When a mutation threatens everything they’ve built, his wife refuses to leave the home of their dreams.”
With Sandra Huller, Christian Friedel and Ralph Herforth.
Naomi recently played the late Whitney Houston in the biographical film I Want To Dance With Somebody.
And the star recently spoke about the difficulties of displaying the pop music icon on the screen.
When she appeared in Lorraine, she admitted, “Part of my fear of going into the role was that I don’t look anything like her.”
“But they just said to me, ‘look – you just focus on her essence and we’ll figure out everything else’.”
Naomi, who has a Madonna-like gap between her two front teeth, added: “When I put on the costume I thought, ‘But I have a gap!’
Glitterati: The Star Wars star wore a lot of makeup to emphasize her beautiful features, including a bold red lip
Becoming Whitney: Naomi recently played the late Whitney Houston in the biopic I Want To Dance With Somebody
‘During the preparation for the role I was like: I’m going to close my gap for good.
“Fortunately, Sony and my team and the producers were just like ‘you’re crazy, you don’t do that, we’ll just give you a fake one’ and I was like oh okay. That works too…”
After two years in the making, the film was released on December 21.
With a huge buzz surrounding its release, the starring actress was tipped for an Oscar for her work in the role.
Looking good: She wore a pair of silver open-toed heels to add a few inches to her stature and smiled broadly upon arrival