SECOND ACT: Fresh off his Golden Globes win, Christian Slater joined his “Mr. Robot” co-star Rami Malek in Paris on Saturday in the front row of the Dior Homme show. “We like to hang out together. He’s got a French family as well, so this all kind of worked out,” Slater explained.
The actor is enjoying a comeback since taking on the role of Mr. Robot, the anarchist leader of a group of computer hackers, that won him the award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a TV Series. “Life is good. I love my wife, I love my life and I’m happy to be at this show,” he said with a grin.
Up next is “King Cobra,” in which he plays a porn film producer opposite James Franco. “It’s definitely a different sort of project for me to be involved with and a different sort of character and hopefully, I was able to do it justice,” Slater said.
Karl Lagerfeld, Caroline de Maigret, Marisa Berenson, Peter Marino, Pierre Niney and Simon Porte Jacquemus were among the other guests. “I’m an absolute tourist in this world,” said the xx’s bass player and co-vocalist Oliver Sim, who had dyed his hair blonde since shooting the Dior Homme spring campaign with Willy Vanderperre.
Noomi Rapace was rocking a full-length green fur coat and mirrored aviator shades. “I’m doing the pimp thing,” she said as she greeted A$AP Rocky. The rapper, fresh off a clothing collaboration with Guess, said he was working on a posthumous album for his friend and business partner A$AP Yams, who died last year.
Meanwhile, Glen Powell was just back from three months of filming in Jordan on the Iraqi war drama “Sand Castle,” starring Henry Cavill and Nicholas Hoult. “I gained about 25 pounds of muscle for that movie, so I’m, like, slowly but surely trying to get that off. The tailor’s not happy with me right now,” he said jokingly.
The Texan actor is hoping the film will be selected for the Cannes Film Festival. Whipping out his cell phone, Powell showed off the video he shot last time he was there in 2014, promoting “The Expendables 3” by rolling down the Croisette in a tank alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger and Antonio Banderas.
“I was trying to make room on my phone this morning to kind of shoot some of this stuff around here,” he explained. “I was like, ‘I’ll probably keep that one and find other things to delete.’”