Inside the Dolby: What you didn’t see on TV on Oscars night
Associated PressLOS ANGELES — It’s during the commercial breaks that the audience inside the Dolby Theatre really comes to life on Oscar night. Back in the room, as Jamie Lee Curtis took the stage to accept her supporting actress prize, Cate Blanchett put her hands over her mouth and made prayer hands toward the newly anointed Oscar winner. And in another part of the room, filmmaker Rian Johnson shared a laugh with Hugh Grant, who made a cameo in his nominated movie “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.” The lobby was quite chilly, but at least a few came prepared with layers: Rooney Mara had a red coat to put over her dress and Andrea Riseborough put a black leather jacket over her pale pink gown, which she wore through the end of the ceremony. A few feet away, Mescal’s “Aftersun” director Charlotte Wells spent most of the ceremony in the lobby, sipping on a beer In another corner, Rooney Mara chatted with her “Women Talking” co-star Jessie Buckley. During one of the last breaks, Kerry Condon hugged “Everything Everywhere All At Once” directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert as they came back to the room, best original screenplay Oscars in hand, as Michelle Williams stretched her legs a few feet away.