"Curly hair really care!" the actress wrote on Instagram
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NEED TO KNOW
- Gillian Anderson stepped out with a voluminous mane of curly hair at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival
- “Curly hair really care!” the actress said of her new look on Instagram
- Anderson stars in the upcoming queer slasher film Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
Gillian Anderson is showing off a new look!
At the 79th annual Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday, May 13, the 57-year-old actress switched up her signature hairstyle for the Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma photocall.
Anderson appeared in a sleeveless ivory-colored dress by Miu Miu with floral accents and beaded embroidery. She accessorized with a pair of heeled sandals and Chaumet jewelry.
The actress turned heads with her voluminous mane of blonde curls, a departure from her usual straight style, though she's rocked her curly locks on occasion throughout the years.
She embraced the transformation on Instagram, sharing a red carpet snap along with the caption "Curly hair really care! Love you @miumiu."
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Fans are equally excited about the new style.
"Fabulous and you just brought big hair back!! Love it ❤️," one user commented.
"Excuse me??? How are we supposed to recover from THIS look??" said another.
A third wrote, "THE HAIR!!!! OMG!!!
Anderson stars in Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma alongside Hannah Einbinder. "A queer director making a slasher franchise sequel becomes obsessed with casting the original film's 'final girl,' leading both women into psychological and sexual chaos," reads a synopsis of the film, written and directed by Jane Schoenbrun.
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In an interview with Deadline, Schoenbrun said she had Anderson in mind when writing the script.
"I was thinking about childhood sex symbols, and for so many of my friends, their coming of age was about Dana Scully," she said. "Growing up, I was a huge X-Files obsessive from third grade on. It was my life. And so, meeting her … It felt like I was meeting a parent who had raised me, but who I hadn’t ever actually interacted with somehow. It was very surreal and both comforting and disorienting."
Schoenbrun added, "She’s also just an incredibly committed and serious actor. Again, capital A. It doesn’t surprise me that she’s been very reticent to do genre film in a post X-Files world, because she is classical and rigorous in her process."
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