Leslie Jones knows who she’s gonna call for her next red carpet dress: Christian Siriano.
Last month, the pair struck up a partnership on Twitter after Jones lamented that no designers had offered to dress her for the Hollywood premiere of Ghostbusters.
“It’s so funny how there are no designers wanting to help me with a premiere dress for movie. Hmmm that will change and I remember everything,” Jones tweeted.
Siriano, a Project Runway winner and a fan of Jones, responded with a waving hand emoji to offer up himself for the job. Jones’s enthusiastic reply was simply: “YAAAAAASSSSSS.”
At the premiere, the Ghostbusters star walked down the green and black carpet in a bright red, off-the-shoulder gown created by Siriano.
Hollywood stylists interviewed by Pret-a-Reporter last month said the 6ft actor and comedian was to blame.
“This is nobody’s fault except Leslie’s,” celebrity stylist Jessica Paster told the website. “She should have known four to five months ago the date of premiere, and said, ‘I’m not a sample size, I need to go to designers early or buy myself a dress.’ Don’t be blaming designers and saying they don’t like you.”
Jones didn’t specify in her tweets why designers declined to dress her.
It shouldn't be exceptional to work with brilliant people just because they're not sample size. Congrats aren't in order, a change is.
— Christian Siriano (@CSiriano) June 29, 2016
The Paul Feig-directed film experienced its own fair share of criticism, both for the gender swap and for Jones’s character.
Jones, who played Patty Tolan, a city train worker, is the only non-scientist in the new, all-female Ghostbusters. Some said her street-smart character was a racial stereotype, though Jones disagreed.
“Why even look at it like that? Back in the day, when I was coming up, the last page of Jet magazine was a guide to all the times black people were going to be on TV, because we were hardly on TV and we needed to see and support our people when we were,” Jones said in an interview with the Guardian. “So my thing is, my parents and grandparents would have been, ‘Woah! She is in a Big Movie! A superhero in a BLOCKbuster.’ Why wouldn’t you be dancing in the street?”
Jones said she thought her character represented “the people” and that she was the best fit for the role.
On Twitter, Jones seemed to respond to the controversy through her retweets of fans sharing their support after the premiere.
“Those jerk designers feel dumb today!” one woman wrote, complete with a Beyoncé gif.
