Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, Vanity Fair's podcast for film, TV, and awards lovers.

I'm Rebecca Ford.

And I'm John Ross.

Well, my predictions came true.

I had to unpack and repack my bags at the Burbank Airport in front of everyone to distribute

the weight on my way to can. John, I was thinking about this, and I don't understand how you have so much

stuff. Men can wear the same tuxedo every night. I have like eight red carpet dresses I have to pack.

What I packed is outrageous.

What I packed.

I packed things for like weather that ranges from like Arctic to like we're alone on a desert island.

I packed so much stuff that the people in the airport were laughing. Like they were waving as I like walked into security. They were like goodbye, like at the end of like Wizard of Oz. Well, I mean, can is tricky because the weather is very unpredictable. I've been checking it like every five minutes and it changes every five minutes. So I get it. But we are bringing

so many nice things to wear because we have some very special Vanity Fair events that you've

been working very hard on planning. You want to talk about the big ones? Yeah, we're doing our party

on Saturday night, which is super exciting and will feature a lot of the talent and directors attending the festival.

We're doing a nice, really intimate dinner beforehand.

And we're going to this restaurant, Tatu, which is this old can famous hangout that's been closed for many, many years, but it's reopening this year and we're like the first thing going into the space, which is very cool.

I'm also excited because we'll be releasing a couple of bonus episodes this week with dispatches from the festival where we'll talk about what we've seen, what we're hearing on the ground, which celebrities are running around in the south of France.

So watch out for those right here on the podcast feed. And of course, please keep sending us questions to little goldmen at vf.com.

Today on the show, we're answering your questions about the Cannes Film Festival.

Plus, by popular demand, we're going to do a look ahead at what we think 2026 will look like in film

and give some far too early predictions about what we might be seeing at the Oscars next year.

And to help us out, she needs no introduction.

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