Celebrities share Halloween costume memories Connick Jr. as Barbie?

By LEANNE ITALIE

Associated Press

NEW YORK

When it comes to Halloween, you’re either a hard-core fan or not so much. You can go ahead and count Dua Lipa in, along with other celebrities who shared their favorite memories of the dress-up holiday.

“Me and my band have actually planned to do our show in Stockholm in costume,” said Lipa, the English pop singer. “We’re all going to go as the ‘Harry Potter’ cast and I’m going to make a flier and tell all the fans to come dressed up for the show. I think that’s gonna be lots of fun.”

And what of last year?

“Last Halloween I was dressed up as Carrie. Lots of blood. Kind of gross,” she laughed.

Fellow crooner Harry Connick Jr. recalled one notable night.

“I went as Barbie one year. I was extremely hot,” he joked.

His wife, Jill Goodacre, chimed in: “It was so scary.”

Hugh Jackman has enjoyed a little family fun – and an odd Halloween anonymity – in the past.

“I dressed up once as [his X-Men character] Logan because my kid, my 3-year-old, went as Wolverine and the costume department gave him the full leather suit and the claws,” he said. “Only one out of 50 houses actually recognized me playing Logan. So I think I could roam the halls of Comic-Con and people are like, ‘No. Too tall.”’

Perhaps only Jennifer Lawrence could have pulled this one off: She went as a picnic table in middle school.

“I cut a hole in, like, a plaid picnic thing and glued a bunch of plates and stuff to it. It was really attractive,” she deadpanned.

Noah Schnapp of “Stranger Things” thinks he may carry the sci-fi ’80s vibe of the Netflix series into his Halloween costume. The show’s second season premieres just a few days before Halloween.

“I’m thinking of dressing up as some kind of monster. Like a Demogorgon from the Upside Down? I’ve done enough running from monsters. It’s time to do some chasing,” he said of his character, young Will Byers.

Finn Wolfhard, his fellow “Stranger Things” cast member who also appears in the Stephen King film “It,” got the bad end of the deal for Halloween last year when one of the moms volunteered to get a bunch of costumes for the show’s kids as they continued to film and he was the last one to arrive for trick-or-treating.

“I got the last costume left, and that’s why all the ‘Stranger Things’ kids were really cool superheroes last year – and I was a human whoopee cushion,” he said.

Cheryl Hines, co-star of the Larry David HBO series “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” hasn’t traveled far out of the box when it comes to Halloween costumes for her and her kids, but she had one epic encounter.

“I did run into somebody dressed as Larry David once,” she said. “On Santa Monica boulevard. Like a 20-year-old guy dressed as Larry David. It was very funny. Of course we got a picture together.”