Among them was Florence Pugh, whose role as Yelena Belova, aka Black Widow, was seemingly on her mind, as she chose a sheer black gown with monochromatic floral beading throughout. She finished the look with a slicked-back 'do and colorful, graphic eyeliner to lean into her character's assassin-chic aesthetic.

Claire Hooper - who taught a young Pugh for "about two or three years" at Cokethorpe School, in Witney, during the early noughties - said the actress "always had star quality". She spoke to the BBC ahead of her former student's latest release, Marvel's Thunderbolts*.