{"id":41889,"date":"2025-08-02T13:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T13:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/41889\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T13:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T13:24:11","slug":"weapons-star-june-diane-raphael-explains-pantless-premiere-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/41889\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Weapons’ Star June Diane Raphael Explains Pantless Premiere Look"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJune Diane Raphael<\/a> turned it out Thursday night at the world premiere of her new movie \u201cWeapons<\/a>,\u201d wearing a a pantless black tuxedo look reminiscent of Roxie Hart, the murderess ex-con turned showgirl in the Broadway musical \u201cChicago.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen you\u2019re a part of such a big genre film and such a giant piece of performance art, it\u2019s time to leave your pants at home,\u201d Raphael deadpanned. \u201cI\u2019ve always said that, you know what I mean? It\u2019s time to lose a major piece of clothing. (The \u201cperformance art\u201d was a faux classroom on the red carpet inside the United Theater on Broadway in downtown Los Angeles that featured several child actors pretending to be unconscious at their desks and a couple of boys covered in creepy clown makeup.)<\/p>\n

\n\tRaphael continued, \u201cIt\u2019s horror chic. It\u2019s horror glam and it\u2019s a little cunty and a little horror and a little scary and a little spooky.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tJune Diane Raphael at the \u201cWeapons\u201d world premiere.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tVariety via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\n\tAn original horror written and directed by Zach Cregger, \u201cWeapons\u201d revolves around a town\u2019s reaction to the disappearance of an entire classroom students who ran from their homes at 2:17 a.m. and vanished into the night, triggering a wave of frantic finger-pointing and accusations ensnaring the children\u2019s teacher (Julia Garner.)<\/p>\n

\n\tRaphael, best known for her turn on \u201cGrace and Frankie\u201d with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, admitted she wasn\u2019t exactly a horror fan: \u201cI am such a scaredy cat. I\u2019m scared right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tAustin Abrams, left, Benedict Wong, Julia Garner, Cary Christopher, Josh Brolin, Alden Ehrenreich, June Diane Raphael and Amy Madigan at the \u201cWeapons\u201d premiere.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tVariety via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\n\tThe cast of the Warner Bros film also includes Josh Brolin, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher,\u00a0Alden Ehrenreich\u00a0Benedict Wong and\u00a0Amy Madigan.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs previously reported by Variety, \u201cWeapons\u201d cost $38 million in a package that included $10 million total for Cregger to write, direct and produce after a frenetic bidding war. Cregger\u2019s 2022 summer hit \u201cBarbarian\u201d\u00a0made close to $50 million<\/a>\u00a0on just a $4 million budget via 20th\u00a0Century.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWeapons\u201d is in theaters on Aug. 8.<\/p>\n

\n\tSee more photos from the \u201cWeapons\u201d premiere below.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tJosh Brolin, Kathryn Boyd Brolin
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tVariety via Getty Images<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tSara Paxton, Zach Cregger
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tVariety via Getty Images<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tBenedict Wong
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tVariety via Getty Images<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tMichael De Luca, Pamela Abdy
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tVariety via Getty Images<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tAlden Ehrenreich
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tVariety via Getty Images<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tAustin Abrams
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tVariety via Getty Images<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tClayton Farris
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tVariety via Getty Images<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tCary Christopher
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tVariety via Getty Images<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tProducer Miri Yoon
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tVariety via Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"June Diane Raphael turned it out Thursday night at the world premiere of her new movie \u201cWeapons,\u201d wearing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75,29838,21109,8725],"class_list":{"0":"post-41889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-june-diane-raphael","13":"tag-just-for-variety","14":"tag-weapons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41889","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=41889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}