Naomie Harris is effortlessly glamorous in a fitted maroon coat as she enjoys a joke with Will Smith whilst filming Collateral Beauty

By REBECCA LAWRENCE FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 08:34, 24 March 2016 | UPDATED: 08:46, 24 March 2016

She's had the privilege of working with some of the biggest stars in Hollywood.

But Naomie Harris seemed in particularly good spirits as she cosied up to Will Smith on the set of Collateral Beauty in Brooklyn on Wednesday.  

Beaming broadly, the 39-year-old actress dazzled as she cracked jokes with her co-star before refuelling with a hot drink.

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Cheerful co-stars: Naomie Harris, 39, seemed in particularly good spirits as she cosied up to co-star Will Smith on the set of her new movie Collateral Beauty in Brooklyn on Wednesday

Clad in a maroon coat, Naomie looked effortlessly chic, cinching in her belt to show off her tiny waist.

Peeking through just below her coat hem, the Skyfall star donned a black skirt that fell just above the knee, whilst she added some height to her frame in a pair of heeled suede boots.

Layering up, she wrapped an orange scarf around her neck, whilst a small cross body bag hung from her shoulder. 

Ready to work: Beaming broadly, the 39-year-old actress dazzled as she cracked jokes with her co-star before refuelling with a hot drink. Clad in a maroon coat, Naomie looked effortlessly chic on set

Leggy lady! Peeking through just below her coat hem, the Skyfall star donned a black skirt that fell just above the knee, whilst she added some height to her frame in a pair of heeled suede boots

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Wearing her chestnut coloured tresses in big bouncy curls, she styled her glossy locks in a side parting, framing her heart shaped face.

Sporting a neutral make-up palette, she framed her hazel eyes with lashings of mascara, whilst a slick of pink gloss lined her plump pout.

Meanwhile, Will, 47, looked effortlessly stylish in a pair of grey trousers and plain white T-shirt that he teamed with a navy coat and blue tartan scarf.

Finishing touches: Layering up, she strolled through the streets of New York with Will by her side, wrapped an orange scarf around her neck, whilst a small cross body bag hung from her shoulder

Brunette beauty: Wearing her chestnut coloured tresses in big bouncy curls, she styled her glossy locks in a side parting, framing her heart shaped face as they cascaded past her shoulders 

Natural beauty: Sporting a neutral make-up palette, Naomie framed her hazel eyes with lashings of mascara, whilst a slick of pink gloss lined her plump pout, accentuating her pretty features 

Collateral Beauty's impressive cast also includes Kate Winslet, Edward Norton, Jonah Hill, Michael Pena and Keira Knightley.

The film tells the story of an advertising executive who falls into a spiral of depression following a personal tragedy .

His employees rally to devise a plan to pull him back, and it works - but not in a way that anybody expected. 

It's being directed by David Frankel, whose work includes The Devil Wears Prada, and is scheduled for release on December 16.

Suited and booted: Will, 47, also looked effortlessly stylish in a pair of grey trousers and a plain white T-shirt that he teamed with a navy coat and blue tartan scarf

Taking the lead: Naomie and Will join the star-studded Collateral Beauty line-up, whose impressive cast also includes Kate Winslet, Edward Norton, Jonah Hill, Michael Pena and Keira Knightley

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OUR KIND OF TRAITOR : A quick look at the actors & their characters

Monday, March 14, 2016

OUR KIND OF TRAITOR : A quick look at the actors & their characters

“At seven o’clock of a Caribbean morning, on the island of Antiqua, one Peregrine Makepiece, otherwise known as Perry, an all-round amateur athlete of distinction and until recently tutor in English literature at a distinguished Oxford college, played three sets of tennis against a muscular stiff-backed, bald, brown-eyed Russian man of dignified bearing in his middle fifties called Dima. How this match came about was quickly the subject of intense examination by British agents professionally disposed against the workings of chance. Yet the events leading up to it were on Perry’s side blameless.” 

 In these opening lines to John LeCarre’s Our Kind of Traitor we meet Perry, played by Ewan McMcGregor in the film, an actor over a dozen years older than the 30 year old character as written by author. We also meet Dima, played by Stellan Skarsgård, neither bald, nor brown-eyed, nor in his mid-50’s. Skarsgård is actually in his mid-60’s. 

Damian Lewis lacks the ‘flowing white hair tossed back in two untidy waves’ resembling ‘to Perry’s eye a Head of College of the old, dotty sort.” But I don’t care. It doesn’t matter.

And Naomie Harris is clearly not who LeCarre had in mind when he described Gail, Perry’s outspoken barrister girlfriend—so much more than your typical lead’s girlfriend role—with the words, “Nature had provided Gail with long, shapely legs and arms, high, small breasts, a lissom body, English skin, fine gold hair and a smile to light the gloomiest corners of life.” It’s the English skin and that gold hair where Harris veers away from LeCarre’s words, with thanks to open-eyed casting of Gail by director Susanna White, the kind of casting that we need more of if we’re to reflect the world we live in.

While the film’s imdb blurb doesn’t mention it, I sincerely hope they don’t edit out the tennis match that starts it all. 

A couple find themselves lured into a Russian oligarch's plans to defect are soon positioned between the Russian Mafia and the British Secret Service, neither of whom they can trust.

I’m on page 189 of page 306 and mostly finding the prose crackling, especially when we have Gail in the room. 

In the trailer McGregor, Harris, Skarsgård and Lewis embody the traits so clearly written by the master of espionage stories. Our Kind of Traitor comes out May13th in the UK, still waiting for a US release date.

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Naomie Harris cuts a chic figure in a flirty monochrome print shirt dress as she attends the star-studded Dior Paris Fashion Week show

By REBECCA LAWRENCE FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 17:27, 4 March 2016 | UPDATED: 17:42, 4 March 2016

She never fails to inject a touch of glamour to the glitziest of soirées.

And Naomie Harris didn't disappoint as she attended the Dior show inside the Cour Carree at the iconic Louvre museum on Friday.

Travelling to the capital as part of Paris Fashion Week, the Bond girl, 39, cut a typically elegant figure in a monochrome midi dress that hugged her lithe frame.

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French fancy: She never fails to inject a touch of glamour to the glitziest of soirées. And Naomie Harris didn't disappoint at the Dior show inside the Cour Carree at the iconic Louvre museum on Friday

Featuring a flattering fluted hem, the flirty printed number flattered her hourglass figure, nipping in to show off her tiny waist.Striking the perfect balance between sultry and sophisticated, the dress bore long sleeves with a collar whilst also featuring a risque front zip. 

Showing off her quirky style sense in a pair of patent block heels with a pointed toe, the fashion forward shoes tied around her slender ankles, fastened with a silver buckle. 

00 Heaven: Travelling to the capital as part of Paris Fashion Week, the Bond girl, 39, cut a typically elegant figure in a monochrome midi dress that hugged her lithe frame

Wild thing! Featuring a flattering fluted hem, the leopard print gown flattered her hourglass figure, nipping in to show off her tiny waist and striking the perfect balance between sultry and sophisticated

Injecting a splash of colour into her ensemble, she carried a canary yellow clutch bag in her perfectly manicured fingers, which gave her outfit some edge without being too overbearing.  

Sporting a neutral make-up palette that allowed her natural beauty to shine through, she wore a subtle sweep of bronze eye shadow and a slick of nude gloss on her plump pout. 

Wearing her chocolate coloured tresses in a side parting, she styled her glossy locks in loose waves which framed her heart shaped face.

Finishing touches: Showing off her quirky style sense in a pair of patent block heels with a pointed toe, the fashion forward shoes tied around her slender ankles, fastened with a silver buckle

Not-so-mellow: Injecting a splash of colour into her ensemble, she carried a canary yellow clutch bag in her perfectly manicured fingers, which gave her outfit some edge without being too overbearing

Dior darlings: Wearing black gloss on their plump pouts and their hair slicked back into a bun, the Dior models were a force to be reckoned with as they paraded the outfits down the runway

With her locks cascading down her shoulders, it seems the Spectre star had decided not to keep the choppy bob she had debuted on Instagram just two days earlier.

Posing with her lips parted and her new hairstyle on display, she wrote: 'Trying out a shorter #hair look today!' 

But whilst she was inundated with fans complimenting her new style, the look was only short-lived. 

Lovely ladies: Sporting a neutral make-up palette that allowed her natural beauty to shine through, she wore a subtle sweep of bronze eye shadow and looked lovely as she cosied up to another showgoer

FROW friends: The front row of the Dior show was a vision of beauty as Naomie snuggled up to the equally as stylish Riley Keough and Emmy Rossum to watch the action up close 

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Meanwhile, Naomie recently spoke out about her role as Eve Moneypenny in the James Bond series, and explained the impact it has had on her life. 

'It's made a huge difference to my career,' she told Elle magazine. 'And I'm really really grateful for that. 

'Because, ultimately, this is a franchise that is globally recognized, which means–me being part of it–I'm now globally recognized. So film financiers see me in a totally different light.'

Neither here nor hair! With her locks cascading down her shoulders, it seems the Spectre star had decided not to keep the choppy bob she had debuted on Instagram just two days earlier

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Naomie Harris: The James Bond Speculation Is "Premature" - Elle magazine

Naomie Harris: The James Bond Speculation Is "Premature"

The 'Spectre' star on the future of the 007 franchise.

BY EMILY ZEMLER

MAR 1, 2016

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Naomie Harris, who is lounging in a very modern chair at the London Film Museum, has long since tossed off her towering Giuseppe Zanotti heels. Her tortured feet are now nestled comfortably in a pair of well-loved Uggs. "I was dying," the actress says with a laugh.

Harris has spent the past few hours inside the museum's "Bond in Motion" exhibition doing press for the DVD and Blu-Ray release of Spectre, her second James Bond film. She's properly glammed up for the experience, wearing an orange Altuzarra ensemble, but now that the on-camera interviews have wrapped, she's slowly deconstructing the look. It seems fitting for the actress, who has the strange distinction of being very well known, but not quite famous. Before being cast as Eve Moneypenny in 2012's Skyfall, the London-born Harris had already nabbed parts in films like 28 Days Later and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. But it was playing opposite Daniel Craig's Bond that changed her path entirely.

"It's made a huge difference to my career," Harris says. "And I'm really really grateful for that. Because, ultimately, this is a franchise that is globally recognized, which means–me being part of it–I'm now globally recognized. So film financiers see me in a totally different light."

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Case in point: Harris's next film, Our Kind of Traitor, which comes out in May, was a straight offer rather than a series of auditions like she was used to in the days before Skyfall. Next year'sCollateral Beauty, which she is currently filming with Will Smith, similarly landed in her lap. But it's not just the 39-year-old Brit's association with the almighty Bond that has pushed her career forward: The actress has managed to shift the iconic role of Moneypenny, a former field agent who becomes the secretary to Ralph Fiennes' M in Spectre, from Bond fangirl to independent woman. Instead of submitting to Bond's charms, the way many of the franchise's female characters do without any real agency of their own, Harris's Moneypenny has her own life. So much so that she gets a casual bedfellow of her own in Spectre.

"I thought that was really important, because I didn't want her to seem like the Moneypennies of old," Harris says. "They're kind of pining after Bond and they don't have a life. And she's not. She fancies him—they have a flirtation; there's a love between them—but she's a strong woman who is very much living her own life independently of him. She's not waiting for him at all."

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Harris is also the first non-white Moneypenny (she's the sixth total since the character was introduced in1962's Dr. No). The diversification of the character, however, was predicated more on the actress than any predominant cultural shift. Director Sam Mendes cast Harris in Skyfall after seeing her in Danny Boyle's London theater production of Frankenstein. "I have no idea what he saw in me, and I've never asked him," the actress admits. "But I do know that he called Danny Boyle and asked him what I was like to work with." Furthermore, Harris was never preoccupied with making history: "I never thought about it like that," she says. "I just thought about there being pressure for what people's expectations about what Moneypenny is like, who should play her, what kind characteristics she should have. The great thing about the way I was introduced in Skyfall is that you didn't know. The reveal wasn't until much later in the film, by which time I'd kind of got under people's skin and they'd accepted that character."

"I DIDN'T WANT HER TO SEEM LIKE THE MONEYPENNIES OF OLD."

Of course, the fate of the Bond films is up for debate: The series' portrayal of women is outdated, and even Craig has notedthat the character of Bond is a misogynist. Craig, who has played the titular role now for four films, also hasn't yet confirmed whether he'll come back for the next one, which has led to ongoing speculation about who could fill the spy's shoes in the future. (Idris Elba, perhaps?) "I feel it's premature, because I feel as though Daniel doesn't get the sort of respect and admiration he deserves," Harris says. "He completely reinvented that role of Bond, and he has made it the most successful Bond of all time. People are turning out in droves to see him as Bond. So I think we should celebrate the fact that we have an amazing Bond and no one knows whether Daniel's going to come back or not."

But as far as Harris' own future is concerned, her path forward is fairly simple: "What I do is I just read the script and say, 'Am I affected by this role?'" she says. "'Is it something I haven't played before? Does it challenge me and excite me? Do I want to do it?' And on that basis, I say yes or no."