Gugu Mbatha-Raw graced a Cinema Society screening of “Farming” in the rain wearing Valentino and Cartier. From gorgeous Gugu you could go gaga.

“It’s Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s own story of a young Nigerian farmed out to a white couple, struggling for an identity, who falls in with a skinhead gang and battles in a world of hate. I play his teacher who helps turn his life around.”

Meanwhile, turning around is Gugu who, living in the UK, sounds more British than the Queen.

“Raised in London, I’m the only family member in show business, but they were very supportive. We are Zulu. My father’s a doctor. My relatives are all in South Africa, and who knows if the movie even plays there.

“At the Royal Academy acting school I studied Shakespeare and classical. And when this film’s director told me Adewale’s emotional experience, the tough time he went through, and why he wrote his life story, I felt I had to do it.

“It’s an indie. We shot quickly. Six weeks around London. Kate Beckinsale plays the confrontational mother who’s not helpful when I go to the house. It’s a special scene.

“I’m also in ‘Motherless Brooklyn’ with Edward Norton, Willem Dafoe, Cherry Jones, Bruce Willis, Alec Baldwin. Plus ‘The Morning Show’ with Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Aniston, Steve Carell. It’s about early morning TV. I live in California and I’m really quite busy.”

Question: So, should the fully named Gugulethu Sophia Mbatha-Raw marry, would she add a fourth name?

Answer: “No.”

Fisher’s life gets book treatment

“Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge” gets published Nov. 12. Mother, Debbie Reynolds. Complicated relationship with father Eddie Fisher. Although rejected when he left her to run off with Elizabeth Taylor, and forgot about paying child support, the “Star Wars” Princess Leia stayed generous. Housing him when he was in need, she also paid for a new song repertoire to restart his career. Carrie lived with bipolar disorder, drug addiction and a near-fatal OD. She left us in 2016.

‘Lunatic’ tale

New Netflix doc “It Takes A Lunatic” is about Wynn Handman, who founded American Place Theatre in ’63. His students: Michael Douglas, Alec Baldwin, James Caan, Olympia Dukakis, Frank Langella, Susan Lucci, Richard Gere, Joel Grey, Chris Cooper and a partridge in a pear tree. Handman is 97.

He’s Revere-d

Writer Gregory Speck took designer Mary McFadden to the NY Historical Society’s new exhibit, “Beyond Midnight: Paul Revere.” It includes a portrait of Mary’s great-great-great grandpa Robert Fulton, who built those steamships that chugged on the Hudson. Who knew he’d be hanging there?!

That’s tricky

Joshua Jay. A magician of a magician. I schlepped to Canal Street, across trashbags, got OK’d by his doorkeeper who allows only 20 people per show, and lumbered down steep, rickety stairs to his darkened lair. It’s no lousy rabbit tricks, dove-in-a-hat stuff or sawing a blond in half. Edgy, mysterious, magical, you move between rooms with each new trick. Go. Lotsa luck.

A cartoon strip of Santa holding a baby was sent me. Santa: “What would you like for Christmas?” Baby: “A Porsche 911.” Santa: “Be realistic.” Baby: ”Ok. Brexit completed.” Santa: “What color Porsche?”

“There is no distinctly Native American criminal class, save Congress.”

And that’s not from me — that’s from Mark Twain. Probably said Only in New York, kids, Only in New York.