Vin Diesel Wheels Michael Caine Along Red Sea Film Festival Red Carpet as Sean Baker Compares Saudi to ‘Early Days of Hollywood’

The fifth edition of Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival kicked off on Thursday with a glitzy red carpet for the Middle East premiere of Rowan Athale’s Sylvester-Stallone produced “Giant,” starring Egyptian-British actor Amir El Masry as iconic British-Yemeni featherweight “Prince” Naseem Hamed and Pierce Brosnan as his trainer.

Stars walking the carpet included Dakota Johnson, Uma Thurman, Ana de Armas, head of jury Sean Baker and jury members Riz Ahmed, Naomie Harris, Nadine Labaki and Olga Kurylenko, as well as Queen Latifah and Nina Dobrev, who engaged in-depth conversations on-stage at the festival earlier in the day. The carpet’s most momentous exchange, however, happened between Vin Diesel and Michael Caine. The “Fast and Furious” star, who received the festival’s Special Recognition Award in 2024, wheeled the legendary British actor onto the red carpet, where they warmly posed for the cameras.

Vin Diesel presents an Honoree Award…