Rita Ora looks fierce in opulent blood-red gown as she debuts Queen of Hearts costume for upcoming Disney+ musical Descendants: The Rise Of Red
Rita Ora shared a look at her latest career turn on Thursday when she unveiled her costume for Disney’s upcoming Descendants sequel.
The 33-year-old singer and actress dazzled in an over-the-top blood-red dress as part of her role as Queen of Hearts in the musical TV film Descendants: The Rise Of Red.
In the film, which airs on Disney+ on July 12, Rita plays the mad royal from Lewis Carroll’s iconic novels Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland and Through The Looking-Glass.
The versatile star – who showed off her astonishingly fit physique just days earlier – plays the evil mother of the new film’s title character, Red.
Rita was almost completely covered in her dark red costume, which featured a slim bodice and a bust covered in sheer red lace, leaving most of her chest and shoulders visible.
Rita Ora shared a look at her latest career turn on Thursday as she unveiled her costume for Disney’s upcoming sequel to Descendants
The 33-year-old singer and actress stunned in an over-the-top blood-red dress as part of her role as Queen of Hearts in the musical TV film Descendants: The Rise Of Red
Rita’s royal dress consisted of a voluminous satin gown that rose three feet above her slender figure.
The costume included striking round fins covered in ruffles that rose from her shoulders, completing the illusion of a large red heart.
The hitmaker’s arms were covered in sheer red lace decorated with beads and sequins, and one of her hands had long finger gloves covered in sparkling red stones.
Rita wore a paneled neck cuff from which a large red, heart-shaped pendant dangled, and she swapped her natural hair for a long, straight wig in the same shade of red as the rest of her look.
She completed the fabulous look with a large red crown adorned with more costume jewelry.
Rita stared sternly into the camera with her arms outstretched against a black background decorated with falling roses in one photo, but in other photos she looked more relaxed and casual.
In another photo, she wore cool red-tinted, heart-shaped glasses while backstage, and in others she grinned at the camera as she relaxed in a striped armchair.
“All hail the Queen of Hearts Descendants: #TheRiseOfRed, a Disney original movie, available July 12 on @disneyplus,” read the caption, which was shared jointly by Rita and the Disney Channel account.
The singer makes her debut in the long-running Descendants series, which began with the 2015 Disney Channel original movie.
The films feature the children of villains from classic Disney films as they rebel against their parents’ evil ways.
In The Rise Of Red, Rita plays the mother of one of the main characters in the film.
The daughter of the Queen of Hearts, Red (Kylie Cantrall) joins forces with Chloe (Malia Baker), the daughter of Cinderella and King (née Prince) Charming, as they use the White Rabbit’s pocket watch to travel in time to prevent a coup in their country. fantasy kingdom.
The versatile star – who showed off her astonishingly fit physique just days earlier – plays the evil mother of the new film’s title character, Red
The costume consisted of a voluminous tiered red satin skirt, a lace bodice, heart-shaped fins over her shoulders and sheer lace sleeves.
Rita wore red mascara, a long straight red wig and a glittering crown covered in costume jewels. She let her hair down and showed off a playful grin in some of her Instagram photos
Rita’s Queen of Hearts is the mother of the title character Red (Kylie Cantrall), who must team up with Cinderella’s daughter to save their fantasy kingdom.
Rita’s character has been featured in numerous adaptations of Carroll’s Alice stories, although two of the most famous versions came from the 1951 animated Disney adaptation, Alice In Wonderland (pictured), which was voiced by Verna Felton.
The character was also brought to life by Helena Bonham Carter in her then-partner Tim Burton’s 2010 live-action version of Alice In Wonderland (pictured)
Descendants: The Rise Of Red, the fourth TV movie in the series about the children of classic Disney villains, debuts on Disney+ on July 12; still from Descendants 3
Rita’s character has been featured in numerous adaptations of Carroll’s Alice stories, although two of the most famous versions came from the 1951 animated Disney adaptation, Alice In Wonderland, which was voiced by Verna Felton.
The character was also brought to life by Helena Bonham Carter in her then-partner Tim Burton’s 2010 live-action version of Alice In Wonderland.
The new Descendants film features another musical star, Brandy Norwood, reprising her role from Disney’s musical TV adaptation of Cinderella, which aired on ABC in 1997.
Paolo Montalban, who played Prince Christopher in that version, also returns to play a similar version of the character, King Charming.