Lily James has transformed from a princess into a zombie slayer.
The star of "Cinderella" was at Comic-Con on Saturday to show off footage from her latest film, "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies."
The fairy-tale princess and zombie-killer have more in common than it might seem, James said.
"Both of them are so strong and independent and fierce," she said. "And to get to play women like that is just so wonderful because it doesn't always happen and they don't always exist in film."
In "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies," set for release next year, James plays Elizabeth Bennett, one of five killer zombie-slayers "who push the men aside and stride into a horde of the undead."
The 26-year-old actress said she enjoyed learning to fight and perform stunts for the role, adding, "I'm hoping that 'Cinderella 2' might have zombies in it."
Harvey Weinstein hit with new sex crime charge in New York
Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a new sex crime charge in New York, as he awaits retrial in his landmark #MeToo case.
Details of the new allegations were not immediately available. He was charged with committing a criminal sex act.
The jailed ex-movie mogul has long maintained that any sexual activity was consensual.
Prosecutors revealed last week that Weinstein had been indicted on additional sex crime charges that weren't part of the case that led to his now-overturned 2020 conviction. But the new indictment was sealed until his arraignment.
Prosecutors have said that the grand jury heard evidence of up to three alleged assaults — two in hotels in the Tribeca neighborhood and one at a lower Manhattan residential building. The purported incidents took place from the mid-2000s to 2016, prosecutors said.
But it's not clear whether any of those allegations underlie the new indictment.
While bracing for the new charges, Weinstein also is awaiting retrial after New York state's highest court this spring overturned his 2020 conviction on rape and sexual assault charges involving two women. The high court, called the Court of Appeals, ordered a new trial, which is tentatively scheduled to begin Nov. 12.
The Court of Appeals ruled that the then-trial judge unfairly allowed testimony against him based on allegations that were not part of the case. That judge's term expired in 2022, and he is no longer on the bench.
Prosecutors have said they'll seek to fold the new charges into the retrial, but Weinstein's lawyers say it should be a separate case.
Weinstein, who also was convicted in 2022 in a Los Angeles rape case, remains behind bars while awaiting his New York retrial.
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