There is no official picture of her being there, but there’s this weird thing on many photo agency. They referenced another woman as Gillian Anderson on the red carpet of this event.
That makes me think that she attended, but just wasn’t photographed and we know from experience that there’s no official photographers inside the venue, so she could have easily sneaked in if she wanted to.
I mean that she was awarded as the woman of last year by Harper Bazaar and since then, she has had a weird connection to them. This year, the ceremony happened the exact weekend she comes back to London, so I just assumed she had to attend at the ceremony or at some private party with HB.
Maybe! I haven’t heard anything, I didn’t even know there was that event tonight. If she was there, wouldn’t we know already?
As she perches on a sofa in this Soho hotel room, dressed in cropped black trousers and a cream shirt, the 48-year-old is far from the polished superstar she was in a floor-length dress at the ceremony. Yet the actress is no less luminous. Her trick, she claims, is Laura Mercier tinted moisturiser. “It’s a big part of my life. Every day I’m grateful for it.” She also reveals that her most extreme beauty measure is a regular blow-dry, and that she has “not paid much attention” to fashion month, despite being thrilled to have a woman at the head of Dior.
Anderson is known for standing up for the sisterhood. She has spoken out about how happy she is to have a female Prime Minister and her aforementioned book is a feminist call to arms. We: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere, published on 8 March, is co-written with the journalist and activist Jennifer Nadel and aims to be “an inspiring, empowering and provocative manifesto for change”.
In a previous interview, Anderson said: “It’s a book about facing oneself. It’s about working through things in one’s own life in order to be of better service out in the world. And it’s about the community of women, too: the fact that there is so much competition and judgment and negativity out there, especially on social media, when we should be turning to each other, helping each other to find our voices.”
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If you don’t want me to say that HB is The Crown’s marketing partner, what else do you expect me to answer? You can’t send me an ask and tell what not to say. How is that supposed to be a discussion? But if you think I have no proof and what I say is bullshit, I encourage you to do your own research. Open your laptop. Go on Google. Tape Harper Bazaar + The Crown and see for yourself.
Marketing partnerships are easy to find. It’s when a magazine (or a Tv network, or a website, or whatever you want) has an exclusivity on a tv show (or a movie, or a play, or whatever you want).
HB announced that the show was in production in exclusivity, they announced the casting, the date of release in exclusivity, they had exclusive interviews with Peter Morgan, exclusive photoshoot with the casts, they released the first pictures in exclusivity and the first trailer. They promoted it in every country it would air on Netflix, on Facebook and Twitter from all their international accounts.
Now how much do you bet Gillian’s participation in The Crown will be announced sooner or later in Harper’s Bazaar magazine?
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