Vanishing act: what happens when stars don’t show up for the red carpet?

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As the Sag-Aftra strikes roll on, film schedules are being torn up and A-listers are ditching promotional duties. But what’s a film festival without the talent?

earlier this week is wheeling her luggage through the duty-free shop on her way to the gate. Pausing to glance at the illuminated perfume ads gazing at her from among the whiskey bottles and the Toblerones bigger than cricket bats, she sees the face of Zendaya, the 27-year-old star of the Spider-Man and Dune franchises, her hair rippling against a violet sky as she sits astride a white steed to promote Lancôme’s fragrance Idôle.

There is a general feeling, though, that the optics of promoting a movie during a widespread strike are unflattering; there is always the chance that Driver, Cruz and others will opt out of the usual round of magazine interviews rather than risk looking like scabs.

The Venice lineup has plenty of recognisable names this year from behind the camera: Richard Linklater, Sofia Coppola, Ava DuVernay, Harmony Korine and Ryusuke Hamaguchi are some of the film-makers joining Lanthimos, Fincher and Mann. There was a ripple of excitement this week when Bradley Cooper was snapped arriving on the Lido, although it later came to light that he was there only to complete checks on his film Maestro, which he wrote and directed and in which.

 

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