Jordin Sparks wows in red as she arrives at the Cinema Society with Circa and Alice & Olivia screening of Sparkle held at Tribeca Grand Hotel on Tuesday night (August 14) in New York City.

The 22-year-old actress wore a hot red alice + olivia‘s “Victoria” peplum dress while posing with mom Jodi on the carpet.

“It had been 15 years since she [Whitney Houston] had done another movie and it was supposed to be her coming out moment — and it is. She definitely delivers,” Jordin shared with Billboard.

She continues, “This is my first film, so it was a huge thing already for me, and now that it’s the end of Whitney‘s legacy and I’m in this film that’s the last thing that people get to see of her, it makes it even bigger and just carry a lot more weight. The movie meant so much to her that now it means just as much to me, if not more because I want to represent it the way she would have wanted.”

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