Paloma Faith is looking for a job. We found the singer chowing down on sushi at the Baftas pre-party last night, held in celebration of the EE Rising Star award. “I love films and I’m a bit of a cinema buff,” Faith told us. But was there an ulterior motive? “I really want to get some more acting work,” she confessed. Rising Star nominees Sophie Wilde and Mia McKenna-Bruce turned out, though much to the disappointment of swooning fangirls, no Jacob Elordi. “I loved Saltburn,” Faith said. “But I feel like we need to do the feminist version.” Ed Westwick made one of his first public appearances since his engagement to fellow actor, Amy Jackson. We also noticed Big Zuu looking loved up with a special someone in the corner of the room for most of the night.
At the BFI, actor Emma Stone and director Yorgos Lanthimos attended a special screening of Poor Things. They have a fan in Faith. She told us it was “my favourite film I’ve seen probably in a decade. On every level, all the details, the costumes, the cinematography, the script, the set, everything. I thought it was perfect.” Across town, Dakota Johnson was promoting her film Madame Web and Munya Chawawa attended the premiere of The Iron Claw.
SJP warned of mean London audiences
Producers warned Sarah Jessica Parker not to anticipate standing ovations from cold London theatre-goers during her West End debut. Parker, of Sex and the City fame, is currently starring in Plaza Suite at the Savoy Theatre opposite her husband Matthew Broderick. “We have demonstrative audiences in New York and there are entrance applauses,” she said. “The producers were prepping us for a civilised engagement.” “It’s good to know and not every audience is going to behave in the same way anyway,” she told The Stage.
But audiences have been bowled over by the show, wooping and hollering in the now-fashionable way. It’s the critics they should have warned her about. “A dated production of a dated play,” zinged one of a number of middling reviews. Either way, Parker, pictured, is enjoying her time in London. She is keen to explore as much of the Underground as possible (“I want to know Edgware, I want to know all of it”) and plans to “participate heavily” in the eating of roast dinners on Sunday.
