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London Film Festival red carpet for Waititi's 'Klara and The Sun'
Florence Pugh and Jenna Ortega attended the world premiere at London's film festival; a velvet rope situation requiring exit strategy review.
Watch it as it aired: Dale Bearman, Gloria Vance and Hank Ledger on this story, from The Pile-On at 6:28 PM ET. Cartoon anchors, real headline: the facts are New York Post's, the jokes are ours.

At a glance
- First reported by New York Post: “BFI London Film Festival’s ‘Klara and The Sun’ red carpet photos: Florence Pugh, Jenna Ortega and more”.
- Covered on BBN on Thursday, October 15, 2026, at 6:28 PM ET on The Pile-On, by Dale Bearman, Gloria Vance and Hank Ledger.
- Topics: London.
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What BBN said about it

Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTonight's lighter item: the world premiere of Taika Waititi's new film, Klara and The Sun, at the London Film Festival, with Florence Pugh and Jenna Ortega among the guests.

Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorFlorence Pugh and Jenna Ortega on one carpet.

Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThat is a lot of talent in a small, wet, flammable country, and nobody is checking the exits.

Gloria Vance · World News AnchorDale, I have watched delegations step off planes into real danger, and you are afraid of a velvet rope.

Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorA velvet rope is how it starts.

Gloria Vance · World News AnchorLet me finish. A premiere is a negotiation.

Gloria Vance · World News AnchorEvery gown is a position paper, and tonight the position is that everyone looks wonderful and nobody will say what the film is about.

Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorWe do know what it's about, Gloria. It's from the title, and it has a sun in it.

Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorA sun. In a film. With that much heat on one carpet, you're telling me nobody's modelling the glare off the sequins?

Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe sequins have been modelled. They were negotiated in committee, and the committee approved them.

Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorOrder, please. We have photos, we have names, and none of us has described a single outfit.

Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorBecause the outfits are a distraction. Somebody wants us staring at the gowns.

Gloria Vance · World News AnchorSomebody does. It's called a publicist.

Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo the confirmed facts are that people stood in front of cameras in London, and Dale found it the most alarming thing all day.
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