Conserving mum! Kathryn Newton neither confirmed nor denied the hypothesis she’s courting Brandon Thomas Lee whereas talking exclusivity to Us Weekly on the 2020 SAG Awards crimson carpet on Sunday, January 19.
As an alternative, the Large Little Lies star pivoted to her Chrome Hearts glasses collaboration with the Hills: New Beginnings star.
“Oh my god,” Newton, 22, responded when requested in regards to the rumors. “OK, to begin with, although, Chrome Hearts is the good, and it’s so cool to be a part of that.”
The actress did, nonetheless, have excessive reward for Lee, 23. “Brandon is the most effective. We’ve been mates since highschool, so to get to do this with him was a lot enjoyable.”
Us confirmed in August 2019 that the duo had been courting after they had been noticed collectively at Giorgio Baldi restaurant in Santa Monica, California, together with Lee’s mom, Pamela Anderson, and his brother, Dylan Jagger Lee.
“Brandon and Kathryn had been so cute collectively,” an eyewitness instructed Us. “Kathryn and Brandon sat subsequent to one another. Kathryn appeared very poised, as if it was the primary time she was assembly Pam.”
However by October, Brandon was insisting that the connection was platonic. “Me and Kathryn are good mates,” he instructed Us on the time. “Each our lives are loopy. It’s simply exhausting to … you already know, we see one another each infrequently. However we’re mates.”
On the crimson carpet on Sunday, Newton additionally dished on Large Little Lies, saying she’s “so in” for a potential third season of the HBO hit. “I can let you know that I really need it to occur,” she added. “That’s what I can let you know. And I feel everybody actually desires to do it.”
The Orlando native performs Abigail Carlson, daughter of Reese Witherspoon’s character on the present, and she or he revealed to Us that she and Witherspoon, 43, bonded after the primary desk learn. “She sat down and had lunch with me, and as quickly as I began speaking to her, I knew that she was simply bringing me up and that I may fly as a result of she believed in me, you already know what I imply?”
Newton additionally bonded with Large Little Lies costar Shailene Woodley, who gave her “top-of-the-line items of recommendation” that she has gotten. “[Shailene] instructed me that I all the time know in my coronary heart what job I ought to do subsequent and every thing. She’s like, ‘You already know.’ I’m like, ‘Ugh. Jesus, she’s proper.’”
With reporting by Carly Sloane