{"id":393049,"date":"2026-01-07T03:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T03:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/393049\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T03:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T03:21:07","slug":"colin-firth-saved-me-when-i-fainted-at-cannes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/393049\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Firth Saved Me When I Fainted at Cannes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tElle Fanning<\/a> recently spoke to W Magazine <\/a>for the publication\u2019s Great Performances issue and remembered her infamous fainting incident<\/a> at the 2019 Cannes<\/a> Film Festival, where the actor was in attendance as a member of the competition jury. Fanning collapsed while seated at the Chopard Trophee dinner and said Colin Firth<\/a> immediately came to her aid.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYes, my dress was too tight,\u201d Fanning said. \u201cMy sister was sitting at another table, and she saw my chair just completely fall back. It\u2019s kind of hilarious\u2014very dramatic. Colin Firth was there, and he rushed to my side. It was the talk of the festival. But I\u2019m known to faint. In school, I would faint a lot. I grew, like, seven inches in one year, and I guess my body was growing so much that I got altitude sickness.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tVariety was on the scene<\/a> in 2019 when Fanning fainted. Festival director Thierry Fremaux had just introduced actor Francois Civil onstage when Fanning collapsed and fell off her chair while seated at a dinner table. She was seated at a table next to her sister Dakota Fanning, who helped the actress to her feet before security whisked them away. Fanning later posted about the incident on her Instagram, saying she was \u201call good\u201d and that her dress was simply \u201ctoo tight.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFanning served on the Cannes competition jury in 2019 alongside directors such as Yorgos Lanthimos, Kelly Reichardt, Pawe\u0142 Pawlikowski and Alice Rohrwacher, among others. \u201cBirdman\u201d and \u201cThe Revenant\u201d director Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu served as jury president. The group made history by awarding the Palme d\u2019Or to Bong Joon Ho\u2019s \u201cParasite,\u201d which became the first South Korean film to take Cannes\u2019 top prize. \u201cParasite\u201d went on to win the Oscar for best picture. Other notable Cannes winners included Antonio Banderas, who won best actor for \u201cPain and Glory.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCannes has screened several Fanning-starring films over the years. Just last year, Fanning was in attendance with Joachim Trier\u2019s Grand Prix-winning \u201cSentimental Value.\u201d She also starred in Sofia Coppola\u2019s \u201cThe Beguiled,\u201d which won best director honors at the 2017 festival. Coppola was the second woman to win best director in Cannes\u2019 history. Fanning was also the star of Nicolas Winding Refn\u2019s \u201cThe Neon Demon,\u201d which was one of the most divisive entries at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival and prompted both cheers and walkouts during its premiere.<\/p>\n

\n\tFanning has been on the awards circuit this season with \u201cSentimental Value,\u201d which immediately launched to Oscar buzz in Cannes. The film is Norway\u2019s submission for the international feature Oscar. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elle Fanning recently spoke to W Magazine for the publication\u2019s Great Performances issue and remembered her infamous fainting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,43877,117294,23770,75],"class_list":["post-393049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cannes","tag-colin-firth","tag-elle-fanning","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}