Resplendent in Louis Vuitton, Chloë Grace Moretz arrived at the Metrograph theater on Manhattan’s Lower East Side last night with one thing on her mind: “This was a chance to subvert a genre,” she told Vogue ahead of the Cinema Society screening of her latest starring role, in the Neil Jordan–directed thriller Greta. “This story is exciting and innovative, but attainable. It harkens back to those ’90s thrillers that we love like Fatal Attraction or Single White Female, but we have two female leads and there’s not that love story getting in the way.”
She stars alongside the Oscar-minted and flawlessly French actress Isabelle Huppert. In the film, the two women form an unlikely bond after Frances McCullen, the naïve New York City newcomer played by Moretz, is moved to return a lost handbag she found on the subway to Greta Hideg, played by Huppert.
Following the premiere, guests including Helena Christensen and Anna Sui took a short stroll to the nearby Back Room, a clandestine watering hole, hidden down a staircase and through an alleyway, that once served as a Prohibition-era speakeasy. Inside, everyone sipped cocktails from teacups as they noticed the many detailed touches from the film surrounding them, including, perhaps most ominously, several exact replicas of Greta’s emerald green handbag. “I shrieked—and it was totally involuntary,” artist Will Cotton, alongside his partner, Rose Dergan, told Vogue. “I think I was especially deep into it because it reminded me of an ex-girlfriend.”