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Anne Hathaway in a strapless black Prada gown with a tulle mermaid skirt on the red carpet at the Verity premiere in New York City.Photo via Perez Hilton

Anne Hathaway Leads Verity Cast Onto Manhattan Red Carpet

The actress walked New York's premiere in a strapless black Prada gown as co-stars Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett, with his wife Tamsin Egerton, joined the lineup.

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Anne Hathaway owned the carpet outside Verity's New York premiere on Tuesday night, and she didn't do it quietly. The gown was Prada, black, strapless, with an embellished sweetheart neckline giving way to a mermaid skirt stacked with tulle. Gothic, dramatic, exactly the kind of look that gets replayed on loop by the next morning.

She wasn't alone. Co-stars Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett turned up too, with Hartnett bringing his wife, Tamsin Egerton, along for the walk. Three leads from the same film, one carpet, cameras working overtime.

The jewellery did its own quiet talking. Drop earrings set with green stones, a spiral bracelet catching the flashbulbs, diamonds stacked across both hands. Nothing about the styling looked accidental. Somebody spent real time on that silhouette, and it showed in the touch-ups caught just before she stepped out, according to footage from the event.

Hathaway is currently pregnant with her third child, a detail that's been doing the rounds since it became public, and it added a layer to how the gown was cut and styled without turning the night into a maternity story. Tuesday was about the film and the people who made it, not the bump.

Verity itself has been building quiet buzz for months now, on the strength of its cast alone. Putting Hathaway, Johnson and Hartnett in the same frame is the kind of casting that gets a premiere talked about before a single review lands. None of the three have said much publicly about the film beyond the red-carpet smiles, and that's probably intentional. Studios like to let the visuals do the early lifting before reviews and reactions start shaping the conversation.

What happens next is the usual premiere-week churn: press junkets, talk-show stops, maybe a trailer recut if early buzz calls for it. Hathaway has had a packed year by any measure, and Verity lands right in the middle of a stretch where she's been everywhere, from red carpets to awards-season chatter swirling around her other upcoming work. For now, though, Tuesday's carpet was hers, Prada and all, with Johnson and Hartnett standing close enough to share the frame.

A release date push and wider critical response are the next things to watch for. Until then, the internet has screenshots of that mermaid skirt to keep it busy.

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