Gabrielle Union is with Dwyane Wade this week in New York as he promotesThe Redeem Teamwhich premieres on Netflix today. Totally watching it this weekend. It’s about the US Olympic basketball team in 2008 trying to win gold again after the embarrassment of the 2004 Games when they only came home with a bronze. I know I don’t have to explain to you why the Americans coming in third in basketball, with all their NBA players, was a total fail. In 2008 they had to redeem themselves – Kobe, LeBron, Dwyane, Melo, they were all on the team, but they had to become a team. This is the documentary about that effort. It’s also from the people who gave usThe Last Danceso there’s a level of quality here that should be familiar to those of us (and there were A LOT of us, not just basketball and Michael Jordan fans) who watched that series. Trailer is below.
As usual, when the Wades step out, they come to serve. Look at this incredible grey leather jacket on Dwyane. You know he’s feeling it.
That was yesterday and later in the evening he and Gabrielle stepped out, both in suits to complement each other. Dwyane is great in a simple black tee under an orange set with a longer jacket. Gabby, too, is in a suit, hers is black, and her jacket is also longer. They’re great on their own but together, it’s a style duet, it’s excellent coordination without feeling like it’s too matchy-matchy.
Gabrielle will soon be doing promotion for her own project,The Inspection. The film opens November 18 and as Joanna posted afterthe film’s world premiere at TIFF, Gabrielle delivers a standout performance that hadsome calling for her first Oscar nomination. She’s probably on the long list for Best Supporting Actress consideration but right now, it's also looking like a wide open race in that category, especially now that Michelle Williams has decided to submit inthe Best Actress category;if Michelle had stayed in Supporting, she’d be the frontrunner for sure. The fact that she’s running in the lead actress category leaves a lot of room for other contenders, and that includes Gabrielle.
Over in London last night it was the premiere of Noah Baumbach’sWhite Noisewhich was hyped for Oscar contention but that buzzhas since fizzled.White Noisewent to Venice and was mostly warmly received but it was overshadowed by other films that premiered there (including all the drama aroundDon’t Worry Darling), and then TIFF happened and many of the releases there pushed it way out of the chat.
The season is long, though, and there’s still time forWhite Noiseto rebound and no one is working harder for the film to attract attention than Jodie Turner-Smith and her stylist Wayman + Micah …OMG. As we have seen, over the last two months, since Venice, JTS has blitzed the red carpet with style bomb after style bomb after style bomb. This time she’s in Balmain, and she is – as usual – UNREAL. Which is a nonsensible combination, the words “usual” and “unreal” because how can something this unreal be so usual?! But these looks are so good, it’s stupid at this point.
今年Wayman +米迦的所作所为与Jodie and Tessa Thompson has been exhilarating. Between the two of them they’ve been their own Met Gala.
Also at theWhite Noise首映,葛丽塔要紫色披斗篷的裙子,one of the best outfits I’ve ever seen on her, and it’s a tricky material, too.
Greta went two for two as she showed up at a luncheon today in a voluminous pink dress that is also excellent on her. The luncheon, by the way, was hosted by the Oscar Academy… so make no mistake, this was a campaign event asWhite Noisetries to get back into the race.
