PARIS — Nathalie Emmanuel has been named the brand new Giorgio Armani international make-up ambassador.
The British actress will seem within the model’s Luminous Silk basis marketing campaign that’s due out in January.
“What attracted me to this particular product and this particular venture is I really like to boost pores and skin and fresh-faced seems to be,” stated Emmanuel. She is a fan of make-up that appears extremely pure — not heavy, over-contoured or over-manipulated. Emmanuel stated Luminous Silk “simply sits so effortlessly and light-weight on the pores and skin.”
She finds it’s to use and encourages or enhances one’s pure magnificence — what Emmanuel goals for together with her personal make-up.
“Then you may have enjoyable with brilliant colours or eye shadow and lipstick if you need,” stated Emmanuel. “However my go-to starter place could be very naturalistic. Armani has at all times had that aesthetic. It’s very delicate, however clear magnificence.”
Armani magnificence stated in a press release it was drawn to Emmanuel’s class, charisma and pure magnificence.
“In every uniquely completely different position that she has embodied, her magnetic presence has captivated audiences worldwide,” the L’Oréal-licensed model added. “Nathalie Emmanuel displays the essence of a contemporary femininity encapsulating Giorgio Armani‘s make-up philosophy of unveiling every individual’s distinctive and internal magnificence.”
Emmanuel is an Emmy and SAG award nominee, whose breakthrough position was Missandei in HBO’s “Recreation of Thrones.” She performed the character for greater than six seasons, between 2013 and 2019. That earned her six Display Actors Guild Award nominations for Excellent Efficiency by an Ensemble in a Drama Sequence.
Emmanuel in 2015 joined the “Quick and Livid” franchise and likewise appeared in its movies out in 2017, 2021 and 2023, which collectively grossed greater than $4 billion in field workplace tickets globally.
Over the previous 5 years she’s labored on tasks akin to “4 Weddings and a Funeral,” the Hulu sequence from 2019; “Military of Thieves,” from Netflix in 2021, and this yr’s “Arthur the King,” from Lionsgate. Emmanuel was twice nominated for Primetime Emmy Awards for performances in “Die Hart,” in 2020, and “Die Hart 2: Die Harter,” this yr.
She had a characteristic starring position in “The Invitation,” a Display Gems horror movie. In 2024, she’s held main components in films “The Killer,” directed by John Woo, and Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis.”
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Make-up might help Emmanuel get into a task. “There may be a option to not put on make-up, and that in itself says one thing concerning the character or the scenario they’re in,” she stated.
Emmanuel defined make-up, like the way in which one does hair or chooses clothes, “is one other option to improve the character that you just’re enjoying. That additionally applies in life, as effectively.
“Should you’re, for instance, displaying as much as a scenario or an area you’re barely nervous about, typically the way in which that you just gown, do your hair and your make-up might help you are feeling extra empowered — prepared for it,” she stated. “The within will catch as much as the surface.
“Traditionally for myself, particularly as an individual of coloration and a mixed-race individual, my relationship with make-up and hair hasn’t at all times been that clean,” she continued. Emmanuel stated it’s affirming when an individual’s particular wants, magnificence and particular person qualities are being catered to and cared for.
“It helps you are feeling good,” stated Emmanuel.
She hopes to impart a message as an Armani make-up ambassador.
“In an age of social media, it’s really easy to check your self to everyone,” she stated. “There’s excessive and unobtainable requirements. It’s actually vital to keep in mind that your distinctive magnificence is one thing to be celebrated and nurtured. You don’t need to appear like someone else.
“I might at all times need folks to really feel empowered to embrace their very own magnificence,” continued Emmanuel. “For lots of people, it has been a protracted journey. I haven’t essentially at all times appreciated my very own distinctive seems to be. So to be part of one thing like this … that enhances my pure magnificence or pure qualities is a constructive factor. The reality of it’s that by make-up we get to precise ourselves nonetheless we so select.”
Again to performing: she’s set to look within the third season of “Die Hart,” which was introduced earlier this week. The sequence will probably be out on Dec. 13 on Roku. In the meantime, Emmanuel is contemplating choices for 2025.
“I’m attempting to be actually intentional with my subsequent tasks,” she stated, including she’s open to new tasks — to learn scripts and meet with folks. “I don’t know what’s going to occur subsequent yr, and that’s each thrilling and scary, which is the place I wish to be in life.
“As a result of if it doesn’t really feel a bit scary, then I don’t suppose it’s price doing typically,” she continued. “I’m on the lookout for that subsequent problem.”