chaotic<\/a>\u201d fashion energy at the photocall earlier in the day, Jessie Buckley turned up in a sheer dress with a visible corset. As Lainey said, Buckley plays three distinct roles in the film, which is in part about women\u2019s rebelliousness. <\/p>\nHere, Buckley isn\u2019t so much theme-dressing in a costume sense, as she is embodying themes of the film through her clothes:<\/p>\n
It\u2019s sheer, but it\u2019s bound, it\u2019s structured but flowy, it\u2019s Maison Margiela. It\u2019s not the craziest sheer look we\u2019ve seen by a mile, but it\u2019s playing with layers, with binding and exposure, it\u2019s on-theme dressing. And that SMIRK! Jessie Buckley has a great f-cking smile. She is SO sexy with that smirk.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, her co-star Christian Bale wore what is basically his red carpet uniform, an all-black suit. I am not looking to Christian Bale for fashion moments, he has made sure of that over the years, I just appreciate that his facial hair is groomed.<\/p>\n
Also, such is the power of Jessie Buckley that I completely forgot Jake Gyllenhaal co-stars in the film. He was there with his squeeze, Jeanne Cadieu, who showed up in a cool body dress.<\/p>\n
I also just plain did not realize Julianne Hough and Penelope Cruz are in this film, too. Like I fully saw the trailers, I just wasn\u2019t clocking anyone but Jessie Buckley, and Maggie Gyllenhaal, the film\u2019s writer and director. Maggie G turned up with Peter Sarsgaard and their 19-year-old daughter, Ramona, who, wow, looks SO much like Maggie. A lot of times I don\u2019t think kids look like their parents but sometimes the genes really jump out.<\/p>\n
As for anyone wondering how The Bride! might impact Jessie Buckley\u2019s Oscar status, if anyone is having Norbit nightmares, don\u2019t worry. The timing is perfect. Oscar voting opened yesterday, and it closes March 5. The Bride! opens in theaters on March 6. Even if reviews are bad\u2014which they probably won\u2019t be, though I do expect some people won\u2019t be able to contend with the film because female filmmakers do not get the benefit of the doubt like men do\u2014there won\u2019t be time for enough people to see the movie before voting ends.<\/p>\n
Norbit opened three full weeks before the Oscars in 2007, which gave everyone PLENTY of time to take in how disastrous the film was, a legitimate box office bomb reviled by critics and audiences alike. It was enough time to derail Eddie Murphy\u2019s Dreamgirls Oscar campaign for Best Supporting Actor. So closely was his Oscar loss linked to Norbit\u2019s failure that twenty years later people still call a bad movie tanking someone\u2019s Oscar campaign \u201cNorbiting\u201d their Oscar chances.<\/p>\n
But the timing doesn\u2019t work out with The Bride! and the Oscars this year. There won\u2019t be box office or audience reactions or anything except reviews, and it\u2019s coming right at the tail-end of voting (the review embargo is March 4). Jessie Buckley will be fine. Her march to Oscar continues unabated.<\/p>\n
Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale attend “The Bride!” World Premiere at Cineworld Leicester Square on February 26, 2026 in London, England<\/span><\/p>\n\n
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Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Ramona Sarsgaard, Jeanne Cadieu, Jake Gyllenhaal, Julianne Hough, Penelope Cruz attend “The Bride!” World Premiere at Cineworld Leicester Square on February 26, 2026 in London, England<\/span><\/p>\nJessie Buckley, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jeanne Cadieu, Jake Gyllenhaal, Julianne Hough, Penelope Cruz\u00a0attend “The Bride!” World Premiere after party on February 26, 2026 in London, England<\/span><\/p>\n Photo credits: John Rainford\/Julie Edwards\/Future Image\/Cover Images\/Instar Images, Alan West\/Hogan Media\/Anthony Harvey\/Shutterstock, NIGHTVISION\/Backgrid<\/span>\n <\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.laineygossip.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bride! premiered in London last night, and following her \u201cchaotic\u201d fashion energy at the photocall earlier in the day, Jessie Buckley turned up in a sheer dress with a visible corset. As Lainey said, Buckley plays three distinct roles in the film, which is in part about women\u2019s rebelliousness. Here, Buckley isn\u2019t so much […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2303495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2303494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Jessie-Buckley-continues-to-embody-the-themes-of-The-Bride.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2303494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2303496,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303494\/revisions\/2303496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2303495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2303494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2303494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2303494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}