Separate appearances at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival were rounded off by a joint appearance in Athens as Nathalie Emmanuel and Kelly Rutherford attended the Women in Power conference on Wednesday.
Fresh from the French Riviera, the actresses were in attendance as the event, held in association with Marie Claire Greece, got underway in the Greek capital.
Emmanuel, best known for her role as doomed interpreter Missandei in Game Of Thrones, looked stunning in a seasonal floral-print summer dress as she mingled with guests on an outdoor terrace.
The British actress, 35, rounded of the look with a pair of heavily tinted sunglasses while settling down to a lavish al-fresco meal in front of the sweeping Mediterranean.
Rutherford, 55, looked equally stylish in a blue and white Apolonia dress from local designer Themis Zouganeli as she chatted to Marie Claire Editor-In-Chief Galateia Laskaraki.
Separate appearances at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival were rounded off by a joint appearance in Athens as Nathalie Emmanuel (left) and Kelly Rutherford (right) attended the Women in Power conference on Wednesday
Emmanuel, best known for her role as doomed interpreter Missandei in Game Of Thrones , looked stunning in a seasonal floral-print summer dress as she mingled with guests
The American star – a household name in the States thanks to her former roles in Melrose Place and Gossip Girl – completed her ensemble with a pair of white sling-back heels.
Both were attending the conference after separate appearances in Cannes, where Rutherford attended a promotional event while Emmanuel’s latest film was savaged by critics.
The actress stars alongside Dustin Hoffman, Adam Driver, Aubrey Plaza, Jon Voight and Shia LaBeouf in Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis – but even the film’s undeniable Hollywood billing hasn’t spared it from critical scorn.
Coppola first conceived the idea for the film in 1977 and actively started developing it in 1983, but it underwent significant delays and numerous cancellations over the years.
He returned to the troubled project in 2019, when it was revealed that he had entered into talks with LaBeouf, who ultimately joined the movie’s cast.
The filmmaker reportedly spent $120 million of his own funds in order to finance the movie.
Almost as epic as the film itself is the long, winding road it took from concept to cinemas.
Coppola first began developing the concept in the early 1980s, working on it in fits and starts in the succeeding decades with a number of actors attached.
Rutherford looked equally stylish in a blue and white Apolonia dress from local designer Themis Zouganeli as she chatted to Marie Claire Editor-In-Chief Galateia Laskaraki
Guests were seen mingling ahead of an al fresco dinner during the conference on Wednesday
He said his plot inspiration came from an attempted coup d’etat in 63 B.C. by the popular Roman aristocrat Lucius Sergius Catiline, who also lends his name to Driver’s character.
After almost giving up on the project in 2007 due to a lack of support, Coppola decided to follow through on it after turning 80, followed by the pandemic, which involved selling a piece of his wine business to self-finance the film’s production.
Megalopolis has not yet found a U.S. distributor but, according to reports, will have a limited global release at Imax theatres at some point this year.
Emmanuel stars alongside Adam Driver in Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis (pictured), but the film divided fans after premiering at Cannes in May
