Cannes Film Festival: Lively encounter in the smallest room

By Stephanie Bunbury
Updated May 20 2016 - 10:13am, first published May 14 2016 - 7:30pm

There was just one other person in the women's toilets squeezed, like all European toilets, into a corner of the Cannes Palais that can only be located with a Where's Wally-style search. Formidably tall, glowing with gorgeousness, visibly pregnant and keen to discuss my hair colour: it's Blake Lively. The whole toilet area is the size of a wardrobe. We can't not talk. It's a Cannes glamour moment, the kind of thing people imagine happens all the time at the film festival – cocktails with Brad! a selfie with George and Amal! – but actually hardly ever does.

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