Janelle Monae delivered ET the Extra-Terrestrial life in her Halloween costume – and won the holiday with her commitment to detail.
“It’s been a lifelong dream to bring ET to life and turn it into ET,” Monáe, 38, told Self. Us Weekly on Thursday, October 31, while promoting her role as manager of LA’s WondaWeen. “My idea for my version of ET was that ET comes home. You come to me 42 years later after seeing the real one.”
Monáe posted Elliott’s (Henry Thomas) the icon’s red hoodie, jeans and sneakers while riding a bike with ET the adorable alien in a basket in one photo he posted on vacation. This summary transported the fans immediately back to the same place from 1982. Steven Spielberg the movie.
The actress, however, took it a step further by donning the ET bodysuit again and becoming an unforgettable actress. “This is one of my hardest clothes to take off because ET is a little boy. I’m short, but not that short,” said Monáe. “So we had to build the inside out so that, you know, I could be as comfortable as possible.”
He commented, “It’s too tight inside the costume” but he was able to take it off. Monáe showed off her team’s good work in a series of Instagram photos, including her dressed as ET in a suit jacket and hat.
Monáe played dress-up while donning the ET suit, including adding a floral dress, fur wrap and blonde wig to portray the eponymous grandmother.
“The things I was happy about and got out of it was to make the finger light up … to make the heart light up, and we have eyes that blink and walk around,” he said. Us. “That, to me, took it to another level and all the pain of going into it disappeared.”

Monáe was proud to reunite with one of her favorite childhood characters, explaining, “I love what ET has to say about coming into each other’s lives and just two people from two different countries falling in love and completely changing each other’s lives. lives.”
The “Age of Pleasure” singer is no stranger to elaborate outfits Us that he “always sees Halloween as a day to show off.”
“I love to be really creative and all the ideas I’ve had in the back of my mind come out on Halloween,” Monáe said. “I think it gives the whole world permission to go outside of the person that they have to play every day and allow themselves to be irrational, to be scared, to be an angel as long as you don’t hurt anyone, to really explore what it means to be and to take another breath out of something.”
This year, Monáe took her wild season obsession to the next level by hosting LA’s WondaWeen bash.
“My art collection. We have writers, directors, actors, singers, musicians, painters, changers [and] people who really pour into the world, into their communities in meaningful and creative ways,” said Monáe Us at WonadaWeen. “Halloween gives us a time to come together.”

He teamed up with AMC Networks and Fear Fest for a month to promote all things Halloween — and worked with Basil Hayden to create special cocktails for Thursday’s party.
“We came up with Monáe Manor,” she said, a nod to her LA Haunted Hayride experience including a haunted house opening on Saturday, November 2. ET Elixir was inspired by Monáe’s Halloween costume this year and it’s gorgeous. a twist on the classic sidecar, according to the actor.
The third cocktail he helped develop is the Spell Bound Smash. “It’s really refreshing,” Monáe said of the drink. “It’s moderate drinking.”
In addition to the festive drinking, Monáe promised that the WondaWeen experience will have the usual horror movies and skeleton decorations.
“I do Polaroid style [photo booth] keeping it really ripe. I’m going to bring you the haunted house experience from Monáe Manor to WondaWeen, so we’re going to have characters going all over the place, to give you that feeling,” he teased. “We have people who are having fun, drinking responsibly and creating memories that will last a lifetime.”
With reporting by Travis Cronin
