Cara Delevingne was spotted posing for the cameras last night as she began promoting her new documentary series, Planet Sex, at a Cannes TV event.
The model walked the red carpet for the MIPCOM 2022, which is dubbed as the “World's biggest television and entertainment market.” The event also saw other big TV names, such as Succession’s Brian Cox, in attendance to promote their shows.
Delevingne was there to present her BBC and Hulu documentary series Planet Sex, which centres around sex and human sexuality in different cultures across the world, and will be released on BBC three this autumn.
At a press conference for the series, Delevingne spoke about the more immersive parts of her Plant Sex filming, including masturbation seminars and porn exhibitions. “I went into a masturbation seminar thinking it was going to be a classroom and I’d have a notepad,” she said, “and instead it was a pink, leather gym mat on the floor, with six people going, ‘Well, take your underwear off. This is the lube,’” Delevingne explained.
“I didn’t realize I was a prude. I think I’m a pretty hip, young, cool, down-with-anything kind of girl but I was like, ‘Sorry what? Sorry, no, absolutely not, I will not do that.’ But I kind of did everything I felt comfortable doing.”
Delevingne’s Planet Sex series will feature the model talking about her own experiences of gender and sexuality. Delevingne has previously identified as pansexual and gender fluid, though still uses the pronouns she/her.
Speaking to Elle about her gender back in 2018, she said: “I believe every single one of us have masculine and feminine in us. I am a woman. I am proud of that. I’m not saying anyone should feel one certain way about their gender, or any part of who they are. But for me, with the times we’re in right now, it would feel weird to say I’m anything else when I am a woman, even though I understand I have masculine and feminine energy.”
And speaking about her sexuality in 2020, Delevingne predicted that she will “always” remain pansexual. “However one defines themselves, whether it’s ‘they’ or ‘he’ or ‘she,’ I fall in love with the person — and that’s that. I’m attracted to the person,” she told Variety.
Despite the personal nature of some aspects of the series, Delevingne says there wasn’t a moment where “she had reservations.”
“I was more like, ‘What are we doing today?’ Because every day was completely different,” she told the press conference. “I’m used to being a chameleon but this was absurd. One day you’re going to get your blood taken while having an orgasm, the next day you’re going to a porn library. I was like, ‘Right, okay, screw my head back on.’”
Planet Sex is not Delevingne’s first foray into television — she recently appeared in hit TV series Only Murders In The Building as Alice Banks, the artsy, wealthy love interest of Mabel, played by Selena Gomez.
Before TV, the model-turned-actress cut her teeth in the film industry, with credits in coming of age movie Paper Towns and the first iteration of the Suicide Squad film series, starring alongside Australian actress Margot Robbie, who is now her close friend.
The busy model was also spotted recently at a party celebrating her genderless Cara Loves Karl capsule collection in collaboration with the Karl Lagerfled fashion house in late September.
Delevingne’s collection is the result of her close relationship with late designer Karl Lagerfeld, who died in February 2019. The two first met when he cast her to walk in the spring 2012 Chanel couture show and were close ever since.
Now Delevingne has launched the gender neutral collection in Lagerfeld’s memory, with pieces showcasing her and Lagerfeld’s “shared affinities” in fashion.
