Maika Monroe sure wanted to stand out over the weekend.

Los Angeles.

The 31-year-old star has been on the rise for years.

She made her film debut with the drama At Any Price (2012), and led the thriller film The Guest and the horror film It Follows (both 2014), which established her as a scream queen.

She starred in the thrillers Greta (2018) and Watcher (2022) as well as the horror film Longlegs (2024).

Aside from her horror and thriller roles, Monroe appears in the action film Independence Day: Resurgence (2016), the neo-noir H๏τ Summer Nights (2017), the black comedy Villains (2019), and the action film God Is a Bullet (2023).

The bottom of the dress was made of very thin white fabric

In July she had a hit on her hands with Longlegs, the Neon horror film about a Satanist serial killer.

Monroe’s character, Lee Harker, meets her co-worker’s young daughter.

It’s obvious the analytical FBI agent doesn’t spend a lot of time around kids.

Her stoic, awkward personality is comically heightened by this interaction with the child, who asks Harker to do things she obviously has no interest in, like seeing the girl´s bedroom or coming to her birthday party.

Critics have praised the 31-year-old’s Longlegs performance – which says something when you share the screen with Nicolas Cage.

But her calculated, offbeat character is even more impressive given Monroe´s affable, almost whimsical personality.

‘There´s a kind of childlike quality to her that is extremely compelling and graceful and charming,’ said Cage of his co-star.

Her endearing approachability is perhaps at least somewhat attributable to the fact that she has always kept Hollywood at arm’s length.

‘I don´t necessarily like being fully consumed in this world,’ Monroe said in an interview.