Kate Beckinsale has recalled how Keanu Reeves saved her from a potentially embarrassing wardrobe malfunction at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.
The Pearl Harbor actress attended the film festival last week where she wore a spectacular green dress.
Inspired by the event, Beckinsale, 49, took to Instagram to share a photo of herself and her Much Ado About Nothing co-stars Reeves, Denzel Washington and Robert Sean Leonard at her first Cannes red carpet in 1993.
In the caption, the actress recalled a major wardrobe malfunction during the event.
"I had bought the bodysuit in the Sock Shop at the airport and when I got in the car to drive to the premiere with Denzel and Pauletta Washington, all the poppers in the crotch popped themselves open and it flipped up like a roller blind," she wrote.
She then comically explained that she didn't feel that it was "appropriate" to try and fix the situation while sitting next to her co-stars in the car so she "quietly panicked" instead.
"[I] walked out onto the biggest red carpet of my life and whispered to Keanu and Robert Sean Leonard what had happened. In this picture I am holding the front gusset down and the two of them are holding the back gusset," she added.
"Absolute legends who may not even have fully understood the physics of what was happening or even heard the word 'gusset' before, but both jumped in to save me no questions asked."
In the comments, fellow actress Naomi Watts called Beckinsale's story "hysterical".
Much Ado About Nothing, also starring Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson and Michael Keaton, marked Beckinsale's major film debut.
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