TIFF Party: Jessica Chastain is the girl everyone wants to meet at the InStyle/HFPA bash
Penguin suit? Fuggedaboutit. Mark Wahlberg attended the hyper exclusive InStyle/HFPA party at the Windsor Arms last night, and while many of his Hollywood cohorts sported predictably elegant duds, Marky Mark kept it casual in a Nike T-shirt and jeans. The every-dude duds probably had something to do with Wahlberg’s TIFF agenda: hawking the new Toronto location of his burger chain Wahlburger at the Soho Metropolitan on Wellington.
The queen of the eve was last year’s Oscar season it girl Jessica Chastain, who vamped it up with fans before entering the party. Inside, Little Miss Sunshine (Abigail Breslin) mixed with Little Miss Wild Child (Juliette Lewis) and Keanu Reeves mingled with Game of Thrones actress Emilia Clarke. Other TV-star attendees included Hannibal’s Hugh Dancy and Mads Mikkelsen, Boardwalk Empire’s Jack Houston, Downton Abbey’s Dan Stevens, Once Upon a Time’s Jennifer Morrison and The Good Wife’s Jess Weixler. Just typing that is making us excited for new TV season—easily the best way to cure those post-TIFF blues.
Courtney Shea is a freelance journalist in Toronto. She started her career as an intern at Toronto Life and continues to contribute frequently to the publication, including her 2022 National Magazine Award–winning feature, “The Death Cheaters,” her regular Q&As and her recent investigation into whether Taylor Swift hung out at a Toronto dive bar (she did not). Courtney was a producer and writer on the 2022 documentary The Talented Mr. Rosenberg, based on her 2014 Toronto Life magazine feature “The Yorkville Swindler.”
