But wait! Ladies going exterior is a coast-to-coast phenomenon! While Kristen Stewart and Dakota Johnson had been holding it down in LA, Monica Barbaro is in New York City, undoubtedly getting ready for the One Night Only (aka “the Purge sex movie”) press run. Honestly, a lady in a button down is SUCH an excellent look. There is virtually no strategy to fashion it fallacious.
Checking in on Monica, and she and Andrew Garfield—along with his newly, suspiciously lush hairline—had been back at Wimbledon earlier this month, after hard launching there final summer season. They’ve additionally been in Rome and Las Vegas, so that they’re nonetheless going sturdy.
Professionally, she is staying booked and busy. Of course, she co-stars with Garfield in Luca Guadagnino’s movie Artificial, about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Amazon MGM dropped the film earlier this yr, however NEON has formally rescued it. Garfield was requested about the chicanery at the New York premiere of The Magic Faraway Tree, and he gave a very diplomatic response: “I’m really grateful to Amazon for making the film with us and I’m also really grateful to Amazon for helping it find a new home. And I think Neon’s a really, really exciting home for it.”
I can’t wait till AFTER this film comes out and then everybody can speak actually about this expertise. I’m SURE Andrew Garfield has extra ideas than that. This is the proper reply to provide at an occasion to advertise one other film, however in some unspecified time in the future, let’s come again to this and see the place everybody stands as soon as there aren’t any extra industrial stakes for Artificial on the line.
Back to Monica, although, she has additionally signed onto the Ocean’s 11 prequel with Margot Robbie and Bradley Cooper (who is additionally writing and directing the movie). I’m glad to see Monica Barbaro getting good work, particularly since I predicted her first Oscar nomination for A Complete Unknown, and now I’m absolutely vested in her profession trajectory, however I’m additionally nonetheless lowkey mad that we by no means obtained one other Ocean’s movie with Sandra Bullock and Cate Blanchett and their crew of woman thieves. Just a reminder, Ocean’s 8 made virtually $300 million towards a sub-$100 million finances, it made cash, however we additionally by no means obtained sequels to Spy or Salt or Atomic Blonde. It’s virtually like the bar is tougher to clear when the potential franchise is carried by girls.
Monica Barbaro out in NYC, July 30, 2026
