Happy New Year, Lily fans! My name is Sara, and I’m the new owner of Lily James Online. My friend Lora kindly let me take over the site from her, and I’m really excited to be working on it – it’s been one of my favorite fansites for many years. I’ve been a fan of Lily for almost a decade, and I can’t wait to share all the photos, graphics & other content I’ve saved up over the years with you!

For my first post, I have updated the gallery with more than 16,000 new photos from nine of Lily’s recent film productions. These include Baby Driver, Darkest Hour, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Little Woods, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, Rare Beasts, Rebecca, The Dig and Yesterday. Blu-Ray screen captures from all films have been added, as well as additional promotional photos, posters and HQ production stills where available. I hope you enjoy the new photos – I will be catching up on events, photoshoots and magazine scans next, so stay tuned for many more updates this week!

On Monday night (July 16) the World Premiere for ‘Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again!’ has taken place at the Eventim Apollo in London. The whole cast joined Lily for the occasion!

She looked really amazing in a beautiful Oscar de la Renta gown with jewellery by Annoushka and Christian Louboutin shoes. More than 500 photos from the event have now been added to the gallery, be sure to check them and enjoy!

Back on July 11, while in Stockholm, Lily also attended the official Press Conference for Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again! held at the Grand Hotel.

For the occasion she wore an Emilia Wickstead dress with Delfina Delettrez earrings and Christian Louboutin shoes. Several photos from the conference have been added to the gallery, enjoy!

After Stockholm the Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again! promotion moved to Hamburg (Germany) for a photocall and a premiere.

During the photocall Lily wore a Brock Collection floral dress and for the premiere a Saloni night blue (beautiful) dress. Several photos from the photocall, and sadly only one from the premiere have now been added to the gallery. Enjoy!

Back on July 11, Lily started promoting Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again! with Amanda Seyfried in Stockholm. She attended a photocall, press conference and premiere for the movie while there.

For the photocall and press conference she was wearing a 3.1 Phillip Lim light blue dress with Anissa Kermiche earrings. For the premiere she wore a Salonix Venyx dress and looked amazing! Several photos from both events have been added to the gallery, enjoy!

Back on Tuesday, July 17 – Lily was guest at The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where she talked about Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again! and played the Singing Whisper Challenge with Jimmy Fallon.

She looked great in Emilia Wickstead Autumn/Winter2018 Collection. Some photos from her interview have been added to the gallery, together with a couple of videos from the episode. Enjoy!

Yesterday (July 18) Lily was guest at Today, together with her Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again! co-star Amanda Seyfried – to promote the movie in the US.

Lily was wearing Hellessy and looked amazing! Some photos from the interview can now be found in our gallery, and below you can also watch their interview – where they talk about the movie, working together and with big names such as Meryl Streep and Cher. Enjoy!

ALLURE – It’s Wednesday at 3 p.m., and Lily James is handing me a shot of Patrón XO Cafe, a sticky coffee-infused tequila that goes down way easier than it should. “It’s good, isn’t it?” the actress asks after we toss them back. “I much prefer it to, like, tequila-tequila.” She licks her lips. “I find that really drinkable.”

We’re at a pub in Finsbury Park, a neighborhood of North London that isn’t known for being particularly posh, and since James has the luxury of an afternoon off, it feels appropriate to day-drink. It started with a few frames of bowling next door at Rowans Tenpin Bowl, then some pints, then talk of something called a “strawpedo,” where you reportedly suck Smirnoff Ice out of a bottle as quickly as possible. Thankfully, this pub, a typical British working-class spot called the Twelve Pins, doesn’t serve Smirnoff Ice. So instead, we’re slamming back shots of tequila.

Here’s what you’re probably thinking: Isn’t Lily James known as a good-girl actress? She’s doing shots on a Wednesday afternoon in a dingy pub? Didn’t she play Cinderella?
And yes, James is exceedingly nice and noticeably polite. The 29-year-old actress has cultivated a career playing kind protagonists in period pieces like Downton Abbey and the upcoming Netflix drama The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, and she embodied one of the most iconic fairy-tale princesses in Disney’s live-action adaptation of Cinderella. Her characters always overcome the odds, get the guy, and live happily and sweetly ever after. There’s a reason no one writes anything negative about James — because how could you? But public perception, filtered through Instagram and TV and the press, isn’t always a representation of the truth. The reality is that James is like any person, complicated and layered. One minute she’s recounting her work as a patron of the North London branch of the Motor Neurone Disease Association, and the next she’s telling a story about being recognized in a bathroom line at the Glastonbury Festival at 5 a.m. You can be a good person and still do shots in the afternoon.

When James first started working as an actress, after graduating from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London in 2010, she didn’t feel quite as pigeonholed as she does now. Her work in theater was far edgier than the women she embodies these days onscreen, and ultimately it was being cast as Cinderella that tipped the scales toward always being seen as the good girl. She’s ventured off course, particularly in last year’s Baby Driver, but James always seems to come back (or be pulled back) to the amiable blonde heroine.