Emerald Fennell stunned in a statement suit as she attended a tastemaker Saltburn screening at The Ham Yard Hotel on Tuesday evening in London.
It is the 38-year-old filmmaker’s sophomore film as a director and stars the likes of Rosamund Pike, Jacob Elordi and Barry Keoghan.
Emerald opted for a classy high-button white shirt, with large cuffs showing underneath a black blazer for a fashionable look.
She gave some edge to the look with flared trousers, making for a trendy appearance.
Meanwhile she added a bold red lip for a pop of colour in the otherwise monochrome palette of her look.
Emerald Fennell stunned in a statement suit as she attended a tastemaker Saltburn screening at The Ham Yard Hotel on Tuesday evening in London
Emerald opted for a classy high-button white shirt, with large cuffs showing underneath a black blazer for a fashionable look
Emerald wrote and directed Saltburn but is also well known as an actress – having played Camilla Parker-Bowles in the third and fourth series of Netflix’s The Crown, which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
She has also starred in Anna Karenina and Call The Midwife and was the showrunner for season two of Killing Eve.
In her latest project Saltburn, Gone Girl star Rosamund, 44, takes on one of the lead roles in the film while Margot Robbie serves as a producer.
The black comedy and psychological thriller centres around Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan), and his aristocratic friend – Felix Catton – played by Jacob Elordi.
The film is set in England, with the two young men attending Oxford University in the mid-2000s.
Emerald previously wrote and directed Promising Young Woman; she won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and was nominate for Best Director and Best Picture.
The flick has been largely well-received by critics, with the BBC praising it for its ‘outrageous, laugh-out-loud punchlines’.
Richard E. Grant, Carey Mulligan and Lolly Adefope also star in the project by Amazon Studios and MGM Studios, produced by LuckyChap Entertainment – Margot Robbie’s production company.
She added some edge to the look with flared trousers, making for a trendy appearance
Meanwhile she added a bold red lip for a pop of colour in the otherwise monochrome palette of her look
The film, which premiered at the London Film Festival, has been described as an ‘outrageously watchable’ Brideshead-style satire about the aristocracy by The Telegraph, led by a director with a ‘sharp eye for outrage’,
Emerald received the coveted Directors Award from Harpers Bazaar magazine last month.
Speaking to the publication Emerald revealed her method for movie making and admitted to living a ‘wonderfully boring’ life where she is never recognised, despite her worldwide success.
On her Best Original screenplay Academy Award for Promising Young Woman she said: ‘The Oscar was completely mad. But I’m lucky – it all happened in the pandemic, so there were no red carpets’.
‘I’m not famous, I don’t get stopped in the street or spend nights mingling with “the stars”. I hold Eurovision parties at home. My existence is normal, domestic and wonderfully boring.’
She then discussed the ‘extremely intimate’ relationship needed between a director and their actors, having worked with the likes of Margot Robbie and Carey Mulligan.
Saying: ‘You rely on each other profoundly, and you’re often under stress, so you want to know that person is going to be able to see it through with you, and go with you. I found exactly that with [The Saltburn] cast.’
Emerald, the Oscar-winning director of Promising Young Woman, was born in Hammersmith, west London to a jewellery-maker and old Etonian father, Theo, and author mother, Louise.
Paul Rhys, Salturn’s butler, Alison Oliver, Archie Madekwe and Emerald Fennell at the screening
In her latest project Saltburn, Gone Girl star Rosamund, 44, takes on one of the lead roles in the film
Alison stunned in a red mini dress with a sultry centrepiece cut-out while Rosamund donned statement faux-leather gloves
The mother-of-one went £39,000-a-year school Marlborough College, the same Wiltshire institution which educated the Princess of Wales, before going on to study English at Greyfriars at Oxford University. It was there that she picked up an agent who had seen her acting in student plays.
It is perhaps no surprise that her second feature-length film satirises the upper classes, considering that she has previously admitted she’s ‘hyper-aware’ of her own ‘grotesque privilege’.
Her father Theo founded his jewellery business in 1982 and built up a following of close friends and clients.
Sir Elton John is said to have dropped £200,000 in a single visit to his store one time, plus party stalwarts including actresses Joan Collins and Liz Hurley and Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood.
She says, however, that she was not named after the gem, but the 1930s society hostess Lady Maud ‘Emerald’ Cunard.
Drama: Saltburn, an aristocratic satire starring Barry Keoghan (left), premiered at the London Film Festival
In a curious foreshadowing of Emerald’s The Crown role, she was notorious for encouraging her friend Wallis Simpson and Edward, Prince of Wales.
Emerald’s mother Louise is a novelist, her books including Fame Game and Dead Rich.
Family friends include Sir Elton John, Sarah Ferguson, Dame Joan Collins and Lord Lloyd-Webber.
The Hammersmith-born writer and director once said of her family: ‘I’m very aware that part of my luck was that I had parents who lived in London who were able to support me. I have to work really hard because that head start that people like me get, you need to prove you deserved it.’
Speaking to British Vogue last month, Fennell reflected on her silver-spoon upbringing and revealed she wanted to go back in time and ‘smack herself in the face’ for the way she behaved as a school pupil at Marlborough, which included sneaking off to the bushes to smoke.
The film was released in cinemas on November 24.
Barry Keoghan plays Oliver Quick, a lad from an apparently deprived background, who arrives at Oxford University feeling, both socially and academically, like a fish out of water
