Natasha Lyonne was spotted with Matthew Avedon at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival on Monday night, May 18, wearing a sheer outfit that left little to the imagination. The 47-year-old actor paired the top with a long white coat worn mostly open, along with sunglasses, a black baseball cap, a Valentino bag and Dolce & Gabbana slides.
The Cannes appearance landed the same day attention also turned to Lyonne’s next screen role. She stars in Poker Face now, but will soon join Jamie King in Darlene, a new dark-comedy thriller from director Mary Lambert, who made the 1989 adaptation of Stephen King’s Pet Sematary.
In the film, Variety reported that Lyonne will play a character named Annie, while King takes the title role of Darlene. Production is set to begin this summer in Louisiana.
Darlene is being billed as a high-octane, pitch-black Southern Gothic fever dream, pitched as something like Raising Arizona meets Nightcrawler. It satirizes generational poverty, terminal narcissism and the modern hunger for digital immortality, following a trailer-park influencer whose desperate chase for viral fame collapses into murder, abduction and a blood-soaked flight across the South.
The Cannes sighting and the casting news are separate, but together they underline how Lyonne keeps moving between attention-grabbing public appearances and offbeat roles built for her sharp, unruly screen presence. The immediate next step is production in Louisiana this summer, which will put Darlene on its way from pitch to set.
