Cara Delevingne is covering a lot of magazines these days because she’s promoting Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, the bonkers-looking sci-fi film directed by Luc Besson. The film is very “futuristic” and lurid-looking, which is why Cara did this photoshoot for British GQ where she looks like a malfunctioning sexbot. I mean, I get it – Ex Machina was a good movie and there are probably a lot of dudes out there thinking, “I wonder what it would be like if a actually met an attractive robot?” The cover though… it’s not good. It looks like Cara’s head was (badly) Photoshopped onto a robot. Anyway, you can see the full editorial here at British GQ. Some highlights:
On wanting to be an actress: “As a really small child I always wanted to be an actress. And I wanted to be a musician. But going to school with all these incredibly talented people I was like, ‘I have no chance.’ I still did it, because I loved it, but I didn’t ever think I’d do this. That’s why I’m so happy that I modelled. I wouldn’t have made it into acting or music if I hadn’t modelled first.”
How her skin gives away her hidden internal anxieties: “I am a very outwardly free person, even though sometimes I don’t feel that way inside… Inside, I have so many fears. I work in an industry where I care what other people think and I’m nervous all the time. If I don’t admit that it’s going on, it comes out in my skin… You pretend it doesn’t exist, that’s when it comes out, whether it’s heartbreak or something at work.”
Having to cry onscreen in new film Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets: “I find it hard to cry in front of even one person. If I cry, I want to cry alone. For me, to cry meant I had to, in my head, beat myself up and make myself feel really sh-t, but what I learnt that day was I actually had to be strong to be vulnerable.”
I don’t break out to the extent Cara does under anxiety, but when I’m under a lot of stress, I do get rashes and breakouts. It’s weird how it’s happened too, because it’s getting worse as I get older. The more stressed I feel, the itchier I feel. So not only do I feel crunched for time, I have to stop and scratch myself. It’s awful. So I do feel for Cara in that respect. As for thinking that she couldn’t go into music because other people were more talented… it’s weird that she didn’t have a similar thought about acting, right? That’s all I’ll say.
Cover courtesy of British GQ, additional photo courtesy of Getty.
I love the cover
Me too, it’s an amazing cover.
“there are probably a lot of dudes out there thinking, “I wonder what it would be like if a actually met an attractive robot?””
That’s actually being discussed: there was an article about how people are concerned that soon human shaped robots will be produced and how some people might sell them for twisted sex fantasies such as pedophilia.
not that I find it palatable but isn’t it better that creeps do their creeping on robots than actual people tho?
Now that you point out the photoshopped pumpkin head atop the body I can’t unsee it….. 🙂
Is she still a really bad actress? It’s a shame; it seems like she might have potential based on her interviews.
I, personally, can’t watch her movies, because she has the same expression all the time in all of them always
I think she’s got a great look. But I agree that cover looks disjointed.
When I was younger I would get the most severe, horrific acne every August like clockwork. My dermatologist said it was anxiety about school starting. Even if I didn’t feel anxious clearly my body did. And once when I started a new job, my whole body broke out in hives. Nothing like being the new person, covered in spots! It was awful but thankfully a single steroid shot instantly cleared it up. Good times.
When I was in college, I used to get a fever before every exam. It was horrible.
Maybe it wasn’t anxiety.
Cara has talked about dealing with her psoriasis, during her first Paris fashion week. She had a stress related breakout, and Kate Moss called her a doctor.
“It looks like Cara’s head was (badly) Photoshopped onto a robot”
It’s one of those covers where the longer you look at it, the weirder it gets. At first glance, yeah, fine, whatever, but something about that arm (elbow maybe?) is NOT right and once you notice that, the whole thing falls apart. I’m ready for the anti-photoshop crowd to kick it up a notch, is what I’m saying.