Cannes Well-Played Carpet: Abbie Cornish

Given that Abbie Cornish historically has looked so severe and dreary and generally unremarkable, this is totally refreshing:

She’s smiling! She looks happy and has well-applied makeup! Her dress is romantic and floaty and doesn’t — per her usual — make me want to ask if she’s auditioning for a role as a very severe German nanny in some horror flick called The Paddle Will Smack! Maybe now that all the tabloids have decided Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal are one deep knee bend away from getting married, Abbie finally feels safe chilling out and relaxing and assuming nobody is going to throw tomatoes at her and call her a homewrecker for hooking up with Reese’s ex. Which is good. It’s long past time to exhale on that one, Abbie. Whether you should now start tensing up about the fact that you and Reese are both dating dudes who have rampant gay rumors swirling around them, and maybe call her and commisserate and arrange to go for donuts sometime… well, I leave that to you. I don’t know your life. But I do know you look pretty.