It’s Elizabeth Banks’ time to shine
The fifty-year-old actress, who recently released her film Skincare on August 13, was spotted in New York City on Tuesday. She was dressed in a silver cowl neck sequin outfit. She accessorized her appearance with an oversized black blazer and black tights, and her minidress featured a range of sequins that got bigger toward the bottom.
Banks completed her look with a silver baguette bag that matched her dress and a pair of black pointed-toe heels. Her makeup, which included soft pink-hued eyeshadow and dark purple lipstick, added drama to her loose, wavy blowout.
The actress appeared as a guest on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday, wearing the same glitzy outfit. However, she removed her blazer for that presentation, drawing attention to the shimmering dress.
In the movie Skincare, Banks portrays Hope Goldman, a well-known aesthetician who is at the top of her business until a controversy shook her when her email was hacked, presumably by a rival aesthetician who had recently relocated to town.
Luis Gerardo Méndez, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, Nathan Fillion, and Lewis Pullman, who plays Hope’s friend Jordan, are all featured in the film. Based on a scenario he co-wrote with Sam Freilich and Deering Regan, Austin Peters directed Skincare.
Even though Skincare is a work of fiction, some of its plot points are true. After being detained in 2014, Dawn DaLuise—a former aesthetician to the stars—was found not guilty of participating in a plan involving murder for hire. (DaLuise has stated that she may file a lawsuit against the movie.)
According to Banks, she was unaware of DaLuise’s narrative before to beginning the project.”I had no idea about that. I was unaware of its existence. I was very engrossed in Hope Goldman, this character, and the L.A. atmosphere,” she stated in an interview with Entertainment Weekly in July.
The former Hunger Games contestant claimed that a facialist named Matty, whom she had once seen in person, served as her inspiration for the part.
“She was very much this Hope Goldman character in my mind, in that she had her own little place on 3rd Street in L.A., and she was recommended to me by an agent — Johnny Depp’s agent — who said, ‘Well, Johnny went to Matty,’ and listed other clients who had gone to Matty.”
That’s what I was thinking, she said, when she read the script. “I was like, ‘I’m going to base it on Matty.'” The movie Skincare opens on August 16.
