Camila Mendes poses with her boyfriend Rudy Mancuso in NYC… before taking designer Joseph Altuzarra to the Met Gala
Camila Mendes and boyfriend Rudy Mancuso were spotted together outside The Mark Hotel in New York City on Monday night.
The two made a stylish pair as they both wore all black.
The couple met while working on the film Musica, which Rudy wrote, directed and starred in, while Mendes played his love interest.
But Rudy wasn’t her date at the Met Gala that same night.
Instead, she walked up the stairs with Joseph Altuzarra, a 41-year-old French-American designer of ready-to-wear luxury women’s clothing.
Camila Mendes and boyfriend Rudy Mancuso were spotted together outside The Mark Hotel in New York City on Monday night. The couple met while working on the film Musica, which Rudy wrote, directed and starred in, while Mendes played his love interest.
But Rudy wasn’t her date at the Met Gala that same night. Instead, she walked up the stairs with Joseph Altuzarra, a 41-year-old French-American designer of ready-to-wear luxury women’s clothing.
Camila and Rudy were last seen at a Música screening in New York City in April.
The 29-year-old Riverdale alum wore a classic look consisting of a white button-up blouse, a black blazer and blue jeans.
She added a pair of ruby red pointed-toe heels and carried a small black handbag.
Mancuso, 32, joined her in black pants, a black jacket and a tucked-in white shirt.
Camila partially pulled back her glossy, dark locks and kept the front parts of her face as the hair flowed down her back.
She looked radiant with a glowing face in a full makeup palette that highlighted her eyes, cheeks and pout.
Mancuso added shiny black leather shoes to complete his look.
He was clean shaven and his dark, curly textured hair was longer at the top as he rocked a tousled bouffant.
Mendes and Mancuso’s Prime Video film was released on April 4.
Rudy spoke in March Entertainment weekly about how his romance with the siren came about.
Together with the French designer, she lit up the red carpet outside The Mark Hotel
Mendes was pretty in pink as she appeared at the 2024 Met Gala celebrating Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
“I met Cami in the movie, and of course it was a dream come true,” he said, adding, “She checked every box I could possibly check for this character.”
He said, “She’s Brazilian-American, she’s beautiful, she’s extremely talented, and she really connected and personalized Isabella, her character, which was great because while shooting our characters had conversations where she and I were in real life had conversations about. life, so the lines between Rudy and Isabella and Rudy and Camila are often blurred due to the personal nature of it. The connection between Rudy and Isabella translated into real life. ‘
Camila and her boyfriend Rudy were last seen in New York in early April
The film is based on a subtly fictionalized version of the director – who hails from Newark, New Jersey – going through a difficult period at the end of his college career.
Camila plays Isabella, whom he meets at a local market and changes his life.
He told EW that Mendes “was such an incredible collaborator,” noting, “She also produced the movie, and she made it better.”
He added: ‘She was a dream person to work with because I wouldn’t consider myself an actor – I mean, obviously I’m in this film, I’m in every frame of the thing, but I felt it was important was for me. to play this character because it literally is me, but I was intimidated.
“Cami is a very skilled, trained actor and has been doing this for years, so I was concerned. “Will there be chemistry? If there isn’t chemistry, am I good enough as an actor to make up for the lack of chemistry?”