Aubrey Plaza made her pink carpet return following the dying of her late husband, Jeff Baena.
Plaza, 40, stepped out on Friday, Might 23, for the premiere of her new movie Honey Don’t! on the 78th annual Cannes Movie Pageant. Whereas strolling the pink carpet, Plaza shocked in a sheer nude floor-length robe with a white strapless bodysuit beneath. The costume sparkled with multi-color beaded gildings.
Along with posing solo, Plaza was joined by her Honey Don’t! costars Margaret Qualley and Charlie Day. Writers Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke and different crew members additionally posed with the solid.
This was Plaza’s first pink carpet since Baena died earlier this 12 months at age 47.
“That is an unimaginable tragedy,” a spokesperson for Plaza advised Us in a press release in January. “We’re deeply grateful to everybody who has provided help. Please respect our privateness throughout this time.”
Later that month, Baena’s obituary was printed within the Miami Herald.

“It’s with profound unhappiness and grief that we announce the sudden and surprising dying of Jeff Baena, a beloved son, husband, brother, uncle and pal to many,” Baena’s obituary learn. “Jeff left us too quickly however regardless of his woefully too-short life, he left us with treasured reminiscences of a gifted filmmaker, in addition to a really particular individual on so many alternative ranges.”
Following Baena’s tragic passing, Plaza canceled her look on the Golden Globes and deleted her Instagram. The actress has primarily stayed out of the general public eye. In February, she made a uncommon public look at Saturday Night time Reside’s fiftieth anniversary particular. She subtly honored Baena through the look by sporting a tie-dye T-shirt — which Baena had a keenness for — beneath her blazer.
Plaza and Baena dated for practically a decade earlier than tying the knot in 2020. Nonetheless, information in March that Plaza and Baena had quietly separated 4 months earlier than his dying. Regardless of separating, the twosome remained shut and he or she requested a wellness examine on him previous to his dying, per a report from the medical expert.
Honey Don’t! is Plaza’s first film since Baena’s dying. The darkish comedy, which additionally stars Chris Evans, follows Honey O’Donahue (Qualley): a small-town P.I. delving right into a sequence of unusual deaths tied to a mysterious church. Evans performs a corrupt non secular chief whom Qualley is investigating. Whereas particulars of Plaza’s function are underneath wraps, the trailer revealed she performs a “thriller lady” concerned with the police division.