She's truly a Beautiful Creature! Emmy Rossum shows off her figure in sheer lace in new trailer

By LEAH SIMPSON

PUBLISHED: 19:58, 5 February 2013 | UPDATED: 21:51, 5 February 2013

In Shameless she wears sweat pants and scruffy sneakers.

But in her new movie Beautiful Creatures Emmy Rossum undergoes a transformation in sheer lace.

A new trailer shows the beauty in her part as Ridley in the movie about witchcraft and young love.

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Sheer darling: Emmy wears some eye-catching ensembles in the motion picture

Sheer darling: Emmy Rossum wears some eye-catching ensembles in the new film Beautiful Creatures

Burning eyes: The actress whips off her sunglasses to reveal specular peepers in the trailer

In the trailer, the stars can be seen moving from casual clothing to more extravagant attire as the story – based on the acclaimed book - develops.

Alice, who plays Lena Duchannes told Just Jared about one section of the film: ‘The Caster Ball was (costume designer) Jeffrey Kurland in his element.

‘It was one of the hottest days on set and getting through the scene was as mad as the outfits…there was fainting. Extravagance and class in the heat of a Louisiana summer… props to Jeffrey.’

Her evil side: Emmy Rossum stars as Ridley

Her evil side: Beauty Emmy stars as Ridley

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Richard LaGravenese (The Fisher King) wrote and directed the haunting coming-of-age story about two teenage star-crossed lovers in a small South Carolina town who uncover dark secrets about their families and their history.

Oscar winners Emma Thompson and Jeremy Irons and Oscar nominee Viola Davis play the cursed residents of the small town in the supernatural love story.

Emmy also spoke about her tough time shooting in the heat at the film’s press junket recently.

Hot out here! Beautiful Creatures was filmed in the sweltering Louisiana heat

Heavy clothing: Alice Englert complained about having to work in the large costumes and hot weather

Pass out: The star claimed that many of the actor fainted while recording the motion picture

Quite something: But she commended costume designer Jeffrey Kurland on his good work

She shared: ‘The most challenging scene to shoot for me was at the very end because I was in the massive dress with this tight horrendous corset.

'Basically in a turtle neck dress with all these petticoats in 120 degrees.

‘The dresses were so large, that to transport me and Emma Thompson to the set from the trailers, they had take all of the rows of chairs and seating out of a 15 passenger van and seat us on individual apple boxes one per van and it was 120 degrees.’