An unexpected incident marred the world premiere screening of Sydney Sweeney’s new Ron Howard-directed film Eden at the Toronto International Film Festival.
According to Entertainment Weekly, the film’s release was halted due to a medical emergency while its cast and crew watched from inside the city’s Roy Thomson Hall venue.
Around 7 p.m. local time, shortly after a scene involving childbirth, the EW crew noticed a commotion on the ground level of the theater. Lights came on and several people could be seen carrying a man out of the venue.
Sweeney and co-stars Jude Law, Ana de Armas and Daniel Brühl were anxiously watching the movie from their second-floor balcony when the film paused on the big screen.
The film resumed shortly after the man was taken out of the room, and the rest of the screening and Q&A event went on as planned. Meanwhile, at the time this article was written, no detailed information had been released about the unwell man.
EW’s team obtained the details, and a Toronto police representative told EW via email that “this was a medical call in the area of the Roy Thompson Theatre just after 7 p.m., and an ambulance was dispatched” and “police were not required.”
TIFF 2024 will run from September 5 to September 15, 2024, with screenings held at various venues across the city, including the TIFF Bell Lightbox, Roy Thomson Hall and the Princess of Wales Theatre.
Eden is an upcoming film starring Sydney Sweeney in the lead role. Based on true events, the film is a historical thriller about a group of post-apocalyptic Europeans who want to start over by fleeing to a previously uninhabited land in the Galapagos Islands in the 1930s. However, when this place turns out to be far from paradise, everything goes awry.
The film stars Ana de Armas, Vanessa Kirby, Jude Law, Daniel Brühl, Felix Kammerer, Toby Wallace and Richard Roxburgh. The official shooting of the film began on November 27, 2023 on the Australian Gold Coast.
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