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Kate Beckinsale says Keanu Reeves once helped her with a major wardrobe malfunction at Cannes by holding down her top

May 30, 2023, 21:56 IST
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Kate Beckinsale said she had a wardrobe malfunction at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.Eric Robert/Sygma/Sygma/Mike Coppola/Getty Images
  • Kate Beckinsale revealed Keanu Reeves helped her with a wardrobe malfunction at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.
  • Her bodysuit came undone, and she didn't have time to fix it before walking the red carpet.
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Keanu Reeves came to Kate Beckinsale's rescue at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, as she revealed in a recent Instagram post.

Beckinsale attended the 2023 festival on May 24 wearing a semi-sheer Zuhair Murad gown complete with a light-green skirt.

She celebrated the occasion on Instagram on Monday, writing in a post that she remembered attending her first Cannes Film Festival 30 years ago in "scuffed steel toe capped Doc Martens."

Kate Beckinsale attends "The Pot au Feu" premiere at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.Mike Coppola/Getty Images

She posted a follow-up photo of herself at the 1993 festival with the cast of "Much Ado About Nothing," which included Robert Sean Leonard, Keanu Reeves, and Denzel Washington.

Though everyone was grinning in the photo, Beckinsale revealed in her Instagram caption that Leonard and Reeves were actually protecting her from a wardrobe malfunction.

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Beckinsale wore a bodysuit and skirt, but the bodysuit soon proved to be problematic.

"I had bought the bodysuit in the Sock Shop at the airport and when I got in the car to drive to the premiere with Denzel and Pauletta Washington, all the poppers in the crotch popped themselves open and it flipped up like a roller blind," she captioned her Instagram post.

Kate Beckinsale attends the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.Eric Robert/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images

"I didn't feel it was appropriate to go delving around in my undercarriage with all of us in the back of the car so I just quietly panicked," Beckinsale added. "Walked out onto the biggest red carpet of my life and whispered to Keanu and Robert Sean Leonard what had happened."

Once the actors knew what was happening, they stepped in to help Beckinsale, she said on Instagram.

"In this picture, I am holding the front gusset down and the two of them are holding the back gusset," she said. "Absolute legends who may not even have fully understood the physics of what was happening or even heard the word 'gusset' before, but both jumped in to save me no questions asked."

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Social-media users were quick to celebrate the trio for their quick thinking in Beckinsale's comments, with many praising Reeves in particular.

"Was Keanu Reeves as cool back then as he is now?" one person commented on the post. "Very curious if he's always been the same."

"Heaven, always," Beckinsale responded.

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