Jennifer Connelly Cast in Short Play

Jennifer Connelly (in Oscar de la Renta) attends the Japanese premiere of Blood Diamond on Thursday in a simple black asymmetrical dress with co-star Djimon Hounsou and director Edward Zwick. The film will open on April 7 in Japan.

Jennifer completed her look with Bing Bang earrings and Cara Croninger bracelets.

Here’s a piece from UK’s Hello magazine about Jennifer, hubby Paul Bettany, and their kids.

The transatlantic pair are used to separations - Jennifer’s last film took her to Mozambique and South Africa - but join each other on set whenever possible. Their children Stellan, who’s three, and nine-year-old Kai, Jennifer’s son from a previous relationship, often go along, too.

And their parents’ artistic bent is obviously rubbing off on the kids. “We’ve already done plays together. Very short plays,” says the mother-of-two. “Kai dictates them to me. Sometimes he casts me, sometimes he doesn’t. And when I’m in the play, he’ll sometimes say to me, ‘No Mom, you didn’t say that right!’.”

Jennifer and Paul were recently spotted walking together in NYC .