Da’Vine Joy Randolph caps off a groundbreaking awards season that ended with She won her first Oscar another iconic first moment – she Met Gala Debut!
The 37-year-old actress, who became known for her impeccable style during the 2024 awards season, stunned as she strutted down the iconic carpet for the first time 2024 Met Gala On Monday.
Staying true to this year’s theme of “Sleeping Beauty: Resurgent Fashion,” Randolph wore a denim dress by Gap’s creative director Zac Posen that was inspired by 18th-century evening wear. The New York Times Reports.
“I knew for a fact the seizure was going to be crazy,” Randolph said NOW the collaboration with Posen. “I knew this dress would look like it was cast on my body, which is very exciting for me as a curvy girl who likes to show off her body.”
The ball-style skirt is removable and the actress plans to remove the outer layer at the museum to reveal a mermaid dress underneath, according to the outlet.
The actress’ visit to the Met Gala comes nearly a year after her critically acclaimed performance as Mary Lamb The leftovers.
Randolph’s performance as Barton Academy’s head chef grieving the loss of her son in the Vietnam War while dating Paul Giamatti’s moody professor and Dominic Sessa’s testy student over the holidays gave her a rich awards season: The Yale School of Drama graduate won a Golden Globe, Critics’ Choice Award, BAFTA and SAG Award for her performance, as well as prestigious trophies from both the New York Film Critics Circle and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.
In March Randolph received the coveted Oscar for Best Supporting Actress at the 2024 OscarsThis makes her the tenth black woman to win an Oscar for acting, following in the footsteps of other greats such as Viola Davis, Whoopi Goldberg and Lupita Nyong’o.
In her acceptance speech, Randolph thanked a number of people in her life, including an acting teacher, who she said inspired her to keep going. She burst into tears and said of her teacher, “When I was the only black girl in that class, when you saw me and told me I was enough. When I told you, ‘I don’t see myself,’ you said, ‘That’s fine. We will go our own way.”
She added: “I am so grateful to all the women who have been by my side.”
Randolph also noted that fans haven’t seen the last of her yet. “I pray to God that I get to do this more than once. Thank you for seeing me.”
Your words have already come true. Last month it was announced that Randolph would star alongside him Halle Bailey and Kelvin Harrison Jr. in The untitled project from Pharrell Williams and Michel Gondry from Universal Pictures.
Set in the summer of 1977, the coming-of-age musical takes place in Virginia Beach, inspired by Williams’ childhood neighborhood of Atlantis Apartments.
Eternal sunshine of the flawless mind Director Gondry will helm the project with a script by Martin Hynes (Toy Story 4 And The magician’s elephant) and Steven Levenson (Tick, tick…boom!, FOSSE/VERDON).
Williams will produce with Mimi Valdés through i am OTHER – Williams’ multimedia creative collective and record label that serves as an umbrella for all of his ventures – along with Gil Netter, who will produce through Gil Netter Productions.
The theme of this year’s Met Gala is “Sleeping Beauty: Fashion Resurgent.” Max Hollein, CEO of The Met, said: a statement that the “innovative” exhibition – and the associated one star-studded annual fundraising gala – should “expand the boundaries of our imagination and invite us to experience the multisensory facets of a garment.”
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