Deadline’s annual group of Ones to Watch in Cannes is made up of actors and filmmakers who are all bringing something fresh to the festival.
The distinction isn’t always reserved for brand new faces; rather, we’ve selected people who are branching out, or who find themselves in waters where they are liable to make waves.
Cannes can be a place of reinvention, after all.With her no-fools-suffered, rock-chic attitude, Devon Ross looks like she’d be more at home in the Runaways than on a runway, but the 22-year-old has become one of the most sought-after models in the fashion world, representing Gucci, Mulberry and Valentino.
And now she will make her acting debut. Directed by Olivier Assayas, working from his 1996 film of the same name, she appears in the HBO mini-series Irma Vep, which screens in the Cannes Premiere section and stars Alicia Vikander as Mira, an actress on the verge.“Mira’s a movie star, and she’s going to Paris to make a film called The Vampires,” Ross says. “She’s kind of disillusioned by her fame and her relationships.
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