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“Security is extremely tight tonight,” O’Brien said, in what initially appeared to refer to heightened security measures over the ongoing US-Israeli war on Iran.
“I’m told there’s concerns about attacks from both the opera and ballet communities,” the comedian instead quipped, before the camera cut to Chalamet laughing.
“They’re just mad you left out jazz.”
The 75-year-old said she’s been asked throughout the Oscars campaign how this year’s awards cycle has been different from her experience as a nominee four decades ago.
“What’s different is I’ve got this little gold guy!” she exclaimed, admiring her statuette.
She said after decades in the business, this year “feels a lot warmer, a lot cozier, than it did the first time.”
But she was out on the carpet as part of the film’s entourage in a stunning Louis Vuitton gown with a fitted bodice and cancan-esque train.
“You just never ever think when you’re growing up that it’s going to be a real thing,” the Irish actress said on the carpet, wearing a custom Chanel ruby and pink gown that exuded Grace Kelly.
The film centers on William Shakespeare’s wife and her experience of motherhood’s expansive love and profound pain — a role Buckley said met her as she was getting ready to become a mother.
“I was changed after I got to live beside her and inside her,” Buckley, whose child was born last year, said of her character.
“This whole year has been so insane,” said the actress, who wore a minimalist cherry red column gown — also Vuitton.
“I feel I’ve won by being nominated.”
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