In 2012, she is directed by another acclaimed director, Cameron
Crowe, who directs her in the family comedy New Start, where she plays
alongside Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson. The film knows a nice success
during the holidays of end of the year. During the same period, she turns in a
clip for the band Sigur Rós Leaning Towards Solace (accompanied by John Hawkes)
and directed by Floria Sigismondi which includes the songs Dauðalogn and Varúð
from the album Valtari. This clip is part of a project, The Valtari Music
Experiment, in which the music group asked a dozen directors to make clips for
eight tracks from their latest album.
And that same year, the Disney studios chose her especially to
lend her features to Princess Aurora, Sleeping Beauty, for the blockbuster film
Disney Maleficent, worn by Angelina Jolie in the title role, and scheduled for
2014. And At the same time, she is chosen to embody the Lolita Lempicka perfume
brand.
Meanwhile, she stars in Sally Potter's independent British drama
Ginger and Rosa, which she wears with young Alice Englert, and released quietly
in early 2013, despite excellent reviews, and a handful of awards, especially
for his performance; then she evolves in the South African sci-fi film Young
Ones, written and directed by Jake Paltrow, alongside Michael Shannon, Nicholas
Hoult and Kodi Smit-McPhee, which however goes unnoticed.
At the end of 2014, the critical and commercial success of the
blockbuster Maleficent is accompanied by the announcement of a sequel, always
with the same actresses.
In 2015, she played in Jay Roach's biopic Dalton Trumbo, where she
lent her features to Bryan Cranston's role-playing daughter. And continues in
an independent vein Hollywood by evolving alongside confirmed actresses Naomi
Watts and Susan Sarandon for the drama About Ray. But this feature film written
and directed by Gaby Dellal sees its theatrical release canceled and postponed
to an indefinite date.
In early 2016, she made a strong impression at the Cannes Film
Festival by wearing Nicolas Winding Refn's independent psychological thriller
The Neon Demon, which nevertheless suffers very mixed reviews. She will also be
one of the guests of the Woodkid concert at the Montreux Jazz Festival.
In 2017, she is showing Ben Affleck's fourth production, Live by
Night. She also plays one of the main roles of John Cameron Mitchell's How to
Talk to Girls at Parties, released the same year.
In 2017 she is the face of L'Oreal Paris and presents a new mascara
in an advertisement "Extatic Paradise". In 2018 she appeared in an
advertisement about a highlighter (illuminating drops) of L'Oreal Paris
"Glow my love".