Unveiling the Truth Behind Oscar Photos: The Raw World that Surprises Celebrities without Makeup – News Roundup

The award-winning singing icon’s entrance to Sunday’s ceremony was breathtaking. Dramatic make-up, floor-length black corset dress by Versace, diamonds, every inch a diva. Ten minutes later another Lady Gaga came on stage. With no make-up, practically no jewellery, in a casual T-shirt, ripped jeans and Converse shoes, she sang in an emotionally charged performance Hold My Handhis song from the film Top Gun: Maverick nominated for an Oscar. (Which she didn’t get this time.) The soulful, acoustic rendition only underscored the authenticity in contrast to the Hollywood glitz.

And that’s exactly what the singer was about, at least according to one of the executive producers of the Oscars, Ricky Kirshner. In an interview pro Hollywood Reporter revealed that Lady Gaga wanted to perform not an “Oscar performance” but the song itself, which is about the innate vulnerability of being human. About the fact that even if you are alone, you don’t have to be lonely. And that if you have someone by your side, it’s easier to face demons.

“She wanted it to be raw,” said Kirshner, who arranged with the artist that the cameras would transmit up to extremely close-up shots. Lady Gaga usually offers a lot more, she has built her career on defying common expectations, extravagance, spectacular concert shows. But she wouldn’t be able to prepare one for the Oscars. She initially refused her participation in the gala evening due to a “schedule clash”, she is filming a sequel to the film about Joker. “He’s really filming, there was no gimmick. At four o’clock on Thursday we got a message from her that she would like to try something. She didn’t have time to put together a big performance, but she wanted it to be raw and for people to see the real Gaga. After all, with a voice like that, you don’t need much more.”

It’s such a subtle Oscar tradition that Hollywood veteran actor Ed Begley Jr. with their daughter Hayden have been following for years. When arriving on the red carpet (which this year was in the color of champagne), she regularly pulls out a public transport card.

They take the subway to the Oscars and then walk a bit because the nearest station is closed on the day of the ceremony.

Begley, whose father won the 1962 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, is a longtime environmental activist. And he long ago found an alternative to demanding limousines. Once he went out on a bicycle – in a suit, with a bow tie, despite the fact that it was raining. Three years ago, he arrived in an electric car charged with solar energy, the server reminds HuffPost. And when he takes his daughter out, they take public transport together.

“The red carpet is traditionally the place where stars make big political statements. Like when Elizabeth Taylor wore a red ribbon to support the fight against AIDS in the 90s. Or when Ryan Gosling wore a Darfur T-shirt. We all knew Bill Nighy was joining them somehow.’

This is how the letter describes it The Guardian the situation when the popular British actor Bill Nighy, nominated for the leading role in the film, appeared in front of journalists at the Oscars Live (he did not change the nomination). In front of the cameras, he took out of his pocket a figurine of a small rabbit, smeared with something, and posed with it with a completely serious face.

“He was the perfect Nighy. It was restrained. It was tasteful. And it was slightly ominous. The rabbit was covered in so much unidentified sauce that many Twitter users believed it had been murdered with a firearm,” writes article author Stuart Heritage.

Heritage considers it best that it was impossible to understand what the actor was up to. According to him, he might have wanted to draw attention to a petition to save the pygmy rabbit from extinction. To refer to the new icon of Taiwan’s gay community. Or it was a protest against the closing of the “Sylvánky” shop in London’s Finsbury Park; the store is closing after thirty years of operation.

It should be added that the figure has been identified as a baby girl from Babblebrooks, the rabbit family from the original range of Sylvanian Families brand animal families.

Nighy himself eventually put an end to the speculation. The explanation is simple: in addition to being a valued actor, he is also simply – a grandfather.

“My granddaughter’s program has intensified. And I was put in charge of watching the rabbits. I wasn’t ready to leave her unattended in a hotel room, the stakes were too high. Where I go, she goes…” He did not explain the origin of the rabbit’s fur staining. The mystery continues.

Twenty-seven-year-old Nigerian singer and songwriter Tems was nominated for an Oscar for the first time this year. The song earned her the nomination Lift Me Up from film Black Panther: Long Live Wakandawhich she co-composed and wrote the lyrics for.

And even though she didn’t win the prize in the end, she was definitely – unmissable. She brought out an ethereal white Lever Couture dress with a giant veil that was structured like a cloud around her head. It was such an impressive model that the gala guests sitting behind her simply could not see. Which sparked lively reactions on social networks.

“Imagine spending your whole life waiting to get to the Oscars, and you end up sitting behind a cloud,” noted author and journalist Jarrett Bellini, for example. He mentioned Stratus directly, which is a cloud that is essentially no different from fog.

As he describes HuffPost, her gown divided viewers. Some felt it was rude of the artist to obstruct the view of other viewers. Others thought that Tems was just trying to gain visibility. And others celebrated her: They liked how a black woman made her mark in a “historically white” institution.

Tems herself said in advance that she chose a dress that corresponds to how she believes in herself.

In an interview she gave to the magazine Harpers Bazaar, she stated: “Just two years ago, I would have refused a dress like this. But – it’s my first Oscars, so I’m going all out. I really want to make the most of the day. Besides that, the dress is my way of celebrating my work and the people around me, celebrating my country and celebrating the people who support me. This dress says, ‘Yes, yes, I’m here!'”

By the way: This year, Tems became the first ever Nigerian Oscar nominee in history.

The 51-year-old American actor with Chinese and Vietnamese roots, Ke Huy Quan, took care of probably the strongest story of this year’s Oscars.

For a movie Everything, everywhere, at once was awarded a statuette in the Best Supporting Actor category. At the same time, Quan returned to the movie screens after a twenty-year hiatus. The Czech audience will probably remember him looking across an even deeper gap – forty years old. At the age of twelve, Quan played Mrnieus (originally Shorty, also Short Round), who accompanied Harrison Ford in the film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom from 1984.

And it was Harrison Ford who announced during the gala evening that Everything, everywhere, at once became the best picture of this year.

“When I ran on stage, I just pointed at him. And he pointed back at me. And I hugged him. I just couldn’t help myself. I want to shower this man with all my love. I gave Harrison Ford a big kiss on the cheek,” Quan described the reunion to the magazine Variety.

But it’s not like they’ve seen each other at the Oscars for the first time since the famous filming in the 80s.

Variety recalledthat this meeting took place last September at a Disney studio event where Ford was promoting the film Indiana Jones 5while Quan arrived as a cast member for the series’ second season Loki.

This is how Quan described it: “As I got closer, he turned and pointed his finger at me. And he had that classic, famous, grumpy Harrison Ford look. I’m like, ‘Oh my God, he probably thinks I’m some kind of fan of his and he’s going to tell me not to go near him’. But he looks at me and points at me and says, ‘Are you Short Round?’ I immediately flashed back to 1984 when I was a little boy and replied, ‘Yes, Indy’. And he said, ‘Come here,’ and he gave me a big hug.”

Ford later supported Quan’s Oscar ambitions. He said about his nomination in January in an interview for Entertianment Tonight: “He’s a great guy. And a great actor. He was when he was a little boy, and he still is. It makes me happy. I am very happy with him.’