Her signature wavy hair is loose and voluminous. Overhead, helicopters appear like gargantuan flies charting people from Cannes to Monaco. It overlooks the sea, peppered with yachts. She is sitting on a couch before a table laden with fruit and juices. “I was a wreck last night, I was an absolute wreck,” insists Roberts, taking a sip of her espresso on the Chopard privatized rooftop of the Hotel Martinez the following day. Julia Roberts with Caroline Scheufele on the red carpet of the Cannes Film Festival 2022 There was no mistaking that there’s “something about Julia.” On this evening, the air was electric, with Roberts engaging guests with her megawatt smile, inspiring everyone to stand a bit taller, laugh a bit heartier, and stay a bit later. Chopard has now supported the film festival for 25 years since its artistic director and co-president Caroline Scheufele redesigned the Palme d’Or - the festival’s highest prize awarded to a film on closing night. Twenty-one years in the making, the trophy honors up and coming actors with “godmothers” of the likes of Helen Mirren, Charlize Theron, Cate Blanchett, and Jessica Chastain bestowing the winners with their prize. Roberts, effortlessly elegant in a couture Dior bar suit and skirt with hair pulled back in a clean bun had been called up to the stage moments earlier to present the actors with their respective awards - the Trophée Chopard.
Both Lowden and fellow laureate, Ugandan-British actress Sheila Atim appeared to fully grasp the gravitas of the evening - a Chopard gala during the 75th Cannes Film Festival to honor their acting skills. It’s all a bit surreal,” remarked British actor Jack Lowden to a delighted black-tie crowd at the Carlton Hotel. “I never thought I would have a new godmother at 32 years old, let alone that godmother be Julia Roberts. Julia Roberts in Chopard at the Cannes Film Festival 2022.
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