Joey King makes his Cannes Film Festival debut in style.
On Friday, May 24, Express train The 24-year-old actress hit the red carpet for the premiere of her first film at the French Film Festival, La Plus Precieuse Des Marchandises (or TThe most precious cargo in English).
King wore an elegant, yet sexy, floor-length baby blue dress by designer Cong Tri that featured a tight sheer bodice and skirt. Her chest and midsection were covered in billowing pieces of silky blue fabric, while her legs and stomach showed off a sheer look. The blue fabric was also embellished with small, silver jewels across King’s midsection, giving the dress a shimmering, shiny texture.
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Joey King in Cannes.
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She completed the look – styled by Jared Eng – with Gianvito Rossi strappy high heels and matching silver and blue jewelry designed by Gabriel & Co., including earrings and rings with blue stones.
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The Oscar winner spoke with PEOPLE on the red carpet of the event, where she opened up about self-acceptance and how her view of beauty has changed over the years.
The in 1923 the actress said that while she admits there are “beautiful people” in the world, like Naomi Campbell and David Beckham, she doesn’t fall into the same category.
“I look good, but I’m not that pretty. But we are all individuals and we all have our individuality. And I think ultimately it’s just accepting that and letting yourself be who you are.”
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Joey King at the screening of “La Plus Precieuse Des Marchandises” at the 77th Cannes Film Festival.
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“I desperately wanted to be Twiggy,” she added, reflecting on the beauty icon of her youth, “and I was absolutely not Twiggy in any sense.”
“The real trick is to learn to accept yourself and love yourself, to accept your absolute individuality and be proud of it,” she added.
After the event, King opened up about her look on Instagram. “I felt sexy and I felt like a princess. I didn’t know it was possible to do both at the same time,” she wrote.
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La Plus Precieuse Des Marchandises, based on the 2020 book of the same name by Jean-Claude Grumberg, follows a poor lumberjack and his wife as they adopt a little girl during the Holocaust.
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Joey King at the screening of “La Plus Precieuse Des Marchandises” at the 77th Cannes Film Festival.
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“One day, a woodcutter’s wife saves a baby. A girl thrown from one of the many trains that constantly pass through the forest,” reads the synopsis from Cannes. “This baby, this ‘most precious cargo’, will transform the lives of the poor woodcutter’s wife and her husband, as well as those whose paths the child will cross – including the man who threw her off the train. And some will try to protect her, no matter the cost .”
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