Andie MacDowell ripped open the envelope and took a protracted take a look at the “winners” listed inside. They weren’t the precise Oscar recipients, simply nominees chosen at random for the needs of this Saturday morning rehearsal for Sunday night time’s Oscar broadcast.
“And the Oscar goes to …” MacDowell mentioned, earlier than hesitating on the stage of the Dolby Theatre. “I hope I pronounce it accurately. I want Hugh was doing this half. However … I will do it.”
“Hugh,” in fact, was Hugh Grant, her love curiosity from the 1994 romantic comedy 4 Weddings and a Funeral. A lot in regards to the rehearsals have to be stored secret: 1.) which award the presenters have been assigned, 2.) the scripted banter they exchanged, and three.) which well-known faces stared at them from the principally empty theater.~~ On the market within the aisles, poster boards emblazoned with movie star headshots stood within the seats so the digicam crews may observe response photographs.
Attention-grabbing team-ups might be a operating theme of this yr’s present. Amongst others, Jonathan Majors will seem onstage alongside Michael B. Jordan, his director and costar from Creed III. Each are additionally iconic Marvel villains, with Jordan’s twisted flip as Killmonger within the Black Panther movies and Majors’ timeline-hopping menace, Kang the Conquerer from Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania, and a complete slate of upcoming movies within the comedian e book universe.
Harrison Ford and Glenn Shut may even current collectively in a reunion that ‘90s action-film followers will love. She was vp to his POTUS in 1997’s Air Pressure One.
MacDowell’s fear about mispronouncing somebody’s identify or stumbling over phrases was a standard one among the many individuals working towards for his or her international telecast. Just about each performer who walked by their displays on Saturday expressed one thing related: please do not let me mess up.
