Justin Timberlake Trolls Us All at Cannes

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On this day, the first day of the Cannes Film Festival, Justin Timberlake posed with a handful of grown human women dressed like trolls. Not the kind of trolls that linger under bridges or behind little egg avatars on Twitter, but the cute ones with the belly buttons. You know, '90s!

These troll impersonators wore matching gowns instead of just navel gems — it's Cannes, this is respectable stuff — while Justin Timberlake wore a pea coat. It has the effect of wedding photos where the photographer yells "Now the bridesmaids with the groom!" and its the 78th photo taken that day and everyone is tired. Nobody chose to wear these things, but here we are. It's costumed pageantry at its finest.

Justin voices one of the characters for the Trolls film coming this fall, along with Anna Kendrick and Zooey Deschanel. He also created a song for the film, "Can’t Stop the Feeling," his first release in nearly three years, which is fine. It's fine.