Cara Delevingne hit the red carpet at the Los Angeles premiere of A24’s “Club Kid” on Wednesday, Nov. 4, the night after Democrats won the House and the Senate. When Gayety’s Josh Azevedo brought up “that blue tsunami” at the Vista Theatre, Delevingne cut in with two states. “We’ve got Kansas. We’ve got Texas,” she said.
In Kansas, Democrat Adam Hamilton beat Republican Sen. Roger Marshall, snapping “a 94-year losing streak in Senate races for Kansas Democrats,” The Associated Press reported. Texas voters picked Gina Hinojosa over Gov. Greg Abbott, who ordered child abuse investigations of parents of transgender kids in 2022.
“It didn’t feel real last night,” Delevingne said. “Like, it was so incredible.”
Cara Delevingne on Art Made ‘in Resistance’
When Azevedo suggested that projects like “Club Kid” can reflect that kind of growth in society, Delevingne turned the idea around. “I do also feel like projects like this are made because of what’s happening on the opposite,” she said.
“But I’m saying in a bad way as well,” she added. When Azevedo offered the word resistance, she took it and ran. “That’s the point of art. Whether it’s made out of support or resistance, it will always be made,” Delevingne said.
She told Azevedo she meant any minority, not only queer people. “Like, no one can stop. I’m just talking about generally,” she said.
“And I think you can never silence people.”
She has made the same vow about her own work. “I will never stop making art because of other people’s opinions,” Delevingne told Bustle in October, in an interview about her album “Not Normal.”
‘An Undertone of Queer Joy’ in Jordan Firstman’s ‘Club Kid’
Azevedo asked what she hopes to carry from the film into whatever she makes next, and Delevingne started with “the generosity of spirit.” “I think there’s just been an undertone of queer joy. And I think that should be in everything, whether it’s a queer project or not,” she said.
“Ultimately, this is an incredible movie. It’s not just a queer movie,” Delevingne said. She described “something that runs through its veins,” something that makes “its heart beat a little louder.”
A24 sums up the plot in one line, about “a hard-partying New York City club promoter” whose life gets upended by “the 10-year-old son he never knew he had.” Firstman, who wrote and directed the movie, plays that promoter, Peter, and Delevingne plays his business partner, Sophie. The script won her over. “It was so cool and queer and different,” she told Bustle.
‘Club Kid’ Shot in Less Than a Month, Delevingne Says
Asked how it feels to finally have the movie out, Delevingne said, “I feel like it happened so fast.” “I mean, they filmed it in less than a month,” she told Azevedo.
“But it doesn’t surprise me,” she said, and she gave the credit to Firstman. “Jordan worked so hard. It was such an incredible script, such an incredible cast.”
“He is an incredible leader in that sense, and it’s been amazing,” Delevingne said. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May and has been collecting festival awards since, Gayety reported. “Jordan’s hysterical. He’s so alive,” she told Bustle in October.
Cara Delevingne’s Dance-Floor Emergency Song Is Pure 2000s
Azevedo also asked which song brings her back to life when her energy dips at the club. “Like, anything from the 2000s,” Delevingne said. She landed on Britney Spears or Rihanna and signed off on Azevedo’s Fergie pitch.
Then she painted the scene. “Your friend is, like, maybe trying to hit on someone, someone else is waiting in a queue,” she said, until everybody ends up on the dance floor together. “You’re all in sync.”
Queer nightlife “was the first place I found real belonging,” she told People on the same carpet. “When I would just go out, I would feel like I would have to cosplay as being straight or whatever,” Delevingne told the magazine, adding, “It is one of the most accepting places in the world.”
Before she moved down the carpet, Azevedo complimented her Playboy cover shoot. “It was such a fun shoot,” Delevingne said. She covered the magazine’s summer issue, and TMZ quoted her in July saying, “I’ve never felt more comfortable in my body and in my sexuality.”
“Club Kid” opens in theaters Friday, Nov. 6.
