Rihanna made a surprise appearance at Cannes Film Festival, walking the red carpet at the Palais to support her partner A$AP Rocky at the premiere of “Highest 2 Lowest.”
The singer and businesswoman wore a sky-blue dress to accompany Rocky, who stars alongside Denzel Washington in Spike Lee’s latest film. Rihanna is pregnant with her and Rocky’s third child, which she revealed at the Met Gala earlier in May. The two are already parents to two sons: RZA, 3, and Riot, 20 months.
In Variety‘s Cannes cover story, Rocky discussed being in a power couple with Rihanna, who recently released a new song for the upcoming “Smurfs” movie in which she’s playing Smurfette. “We both got movies coming out the same year,” Rocky noted. “I didn’t even realize that. Wow! Shout-outs to us — we’ve been working!”
Directed by Spike Lee, “Highest 2 Lowest” is an English-language remake of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 film “High and Low” set in modern day New York. It stars Denzel Washington as a music mogul tied up in a life-or-death ransom plot with Rocky as Yung Felon, an aspiring rapper who will stop at nothing to achieve his dream. Alongside Washington and Rocky, “Highest 2 Lowest” features Ilfenesh Hadera, Jeffrey Wright, Ice Spice (in her film debut), Dean Winters, John Douglas Thompson, LaChanze, Aubrey Joseph, Michael Potts and Wendell Pierce.
Rihanna was also recently by Rocky’s side during his felony shooting trial in Los Angeles. Rocky was facing two assault charges stemming from a 2021 shooting incident that occurred outside the W Hotel in Hollywood. After a three-week trial, Rocky was found not guilty on all counts, jumping over the stand to hug Rihanna and his mother, Renee Black, and sister Erika Mayers.
From Variety US
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