THE OSCAR ISSUE / HUFFINGTON / 02.10-17.13
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Hathaway and husband
Adam Shulman at the
19th Annual Screen
Actors Guild Awards
in 2013.
MATT SAYLES/INVISION/AP
What do you do in that situation? You just laugh and
smile. I tried to get Valentino to autograph the
dress, but he wouldn’t do it. It actually
wound up looking really pretty — it was
like an ombre effect. And I couldn’t really get that mad, because it was not
even my dress.
Over the past 10 years, two actresses have
won Best Supporting Actress for their performances in musicals. One was Jennifer Hudson
for Dreamgirls, and the other was Catherine
Zeta-Jones for Chicago, in 2003. Where were
you on Oscar night in 2003? I think I was
in the Josselyn common
room at Vassar.
Watching it on TV? Well, I
missed the first part because I had a
cappella practice. I remember being
very confused, because we had just
gone to war with Iraq and there was
a lot of talk about “Should they cancel it? What should we do?” And I
thought Nicole Kidman gave the most
beautiful, thoughtful response to that
when she said, “I am so happy to be
here tonight, because art is important.” I was just very grateful
to her for that little rally cry.