'If Beale Street Could Talk' Cast Teams Up for Academy's Screening

If Beale Street Could Talk stars Stephan James and KiKi Layne join forces at The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences official screening!

The actors stepped out for the event held at the MoMA, Celeste Bartos Theater on Thursday (November 29) in New York City.

They were joined by their other co-star Brian Tyree Henry, as well as director/writer/producer Barry Jenkins and composer Nicholas Britell.

Moonlight filmmaker Barry‘s If Beale Street Could Talk is already getting a ton of buzz this awards season.

An adaptation of James Baldwin‘s acclaimed novel, it tells the story of a woman in Harlem who desperately scrambles to prove her fiance innocent of a crime while carrying their first child.

Check out the final trailer and poster here, and don’t miss it when it hits theaters on December 25!

FYI: KiKi is wearing a Victoria Beckham shirt and skirt.

20+ pictures inside of the If Beale Street Could Talk cast at the screening…