UPDATE: Rachel Zegler gets invited to the Oscars as a presenter
"I hope some last minute miracle occurs and I can celebrate our film in person," wrote the actor
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UPDATE, March 22: After Rachel Zegler replied to a fan on Instagram saying she was not invited to the Oscars, many rallied to get the West Side Story star an invite. Per The Hollywood Reporter, those efforts worked out, as the actor has now been invited to the Academy Awards as a presenter.
Though Zegler is currently filming Disney’s live-action Snow White remake in London, THR reports that production is working on rearranging the shooting schedule so Zegler can attend the ceremony.
Steven Spielberg’s remake of West Side Story received seven Oscar nominations—including one for Best Picture—but in a surprising and extremely questionable move, the Academy did not invite the film’s lead, Rachel Zegler, to the ceremony.
When a fan commented on her Instagram “Can’t wait to see what you’ll be wearing on Oscar night,” Zegler revealed that she won’t be attending the ceremony. She wrote, “I’m not invited so sweatpants and my boyfriend’s flannel.”
“Idk y’all I have tried it all but it doesn’t seem to be happening :’) I will root for West Side Story from my couch and be proud of the work we so tirelessly did 3 years ago,” she elaborated in another reply. “I hope some last minute miracle occurs and I can celebrate our film in person but hey, that’s how it goes sometimes, I guess. Thanks for all the shock and outrage—I’m disappointed, too. But that’s okay. So proud of our movie.”
One Day At A Time creator Gloria Calderón Kellett shared on Twitter a screenshot of Zegler’s comment, writing, “Hey ABC you moved ONE Latine show you have to Hulu and The Academy claims to want to embrace diversity. How about the rare time that Latine people have a movie nominated for an OSCAR you invite the lead. Latine people are 18.5% of this country. ENOUGH!” Others in the industry chimed in, expressing their outrage as well.
Zegler then wrote a tweet addressing her fans who called out the Academy for not extending an invite to her. She wrote, “My goodness, folks!! Appreciate all the support, I really really do. We live in such unprecedented times, and a lot of work behind the scenes goes into making movie magic happen. That goes for film productions (like the one I am so lucky to be currently shooting in London) and awards shows alike. Let’s all just respect the process and i’ll get off my phone.”
The 94th Oscars will be held this Sunday at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood.
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The heck? It what world would the Academy not invite the lead actress of a movie nominated for seven awards, including Best Picture. I hope the reason why comes out, and that it boils down to, “Ohhhh Rachel Zegler? We’ve been sending out the invite to Rachel Ziegler!”
I’ve been trying and I can’t find any other examples of a lead from a Best Picture nominee not being invited.
After more research, it actually appears normal that the Academy only individually invites people who were individually nominated, and presenters. So even the leads of a film nominated wouldn’t receive an invite unless they were a named nominee in some single category.The other way that the casts of films end up at the Oscars is to be invited by the +1’s and +5’s that academy members and other invitees get. Someone done fudged up.
Then she should be invited as a presenter. Lady Gaga was invited to present and she wasn’t even nominated. Hell have Zegler present with Lady Gaga since she’s a very vocal super fan and it could be a sweet moment!
Maybe they had bad autocorrect on their phones and the invite went to Renee Zellweger…
I was assuming Disney believes there’s no chance it wins Best Picture. If you know you’re not going up on stage anyway, why bother paying for everyone to come?
1) How the hell do you not invite the star of a movie nominated for Best Picture, and 2) Are we really saying that Steven Freaking Spielberg can’t make one phone call and get this remedied immediately?
This was my first though: Surely all it would take is a single call from Spielberg.
Unless…he was the one insisting on not inviting her all along! [Slow zoom, cue music, menacing eyes revealed. Rachel looks shocked. I said “shocked” not “consternated!” Ugh, CUT!]
“You’re upset! YOU’RE NOT THAT UPSET!!”
I’ve been consternated all day. Waaaaay too much cheese.
Actually, after doing more research it looks like it is normal practice to NOT invite anyone who wasn’t an individually named nominee. Even the lead of a nominated film.
The next way of getting invited when you aren’t an individually named nominee, is to have a nominee, a studio, an academy member, invite you using their requested tickets.
Seems like the kind of detail a pop-culture journalist might mention. Any idea where to find some of those?
How else are we going to make room for the person who won Best Costumer Design in 1974?
The next way of getting invited when you aren’t an individually named
nominee, is to have a nominee, a studio, an academy member, invite you
using their requested tickets.
So, again, Steven Spielberg couldn’t get her in?
It may turn out that this is technically more the studio’s fault than the Academy’s, but I’m near-certain that the famous white guy stars of BP nominees who weren’t individually nominated, like DiCaprio, Cooper, or Chalamet, will be there (and likely the ones in breakout roles, like Hoffman and Hill).
Even if there is nothing official suggesting they have to include her, it’s nearly impossible to imagine this kind of rules stickling preventing an influential white dude from getting an invite somehow. Its not a good look for the studio or the Academy itself, especially coming out of the Oscars So White controversy and all those effusive diversity pledges.
I want to know if her bad touch love interest from the film was invited.
This will be why. If they invite her, they would feel obligated to invite him, or else to explain why they didn’t.
It would be a hell of a lot easier to explain not inviting him than having to explain not inviting her!
That’s the point though: they would have to actually put it in words, when the allegations are not yet resolved. Inviting her as a presenter gives them a way out without having to address it.
It would be a hell of a lot easier to explain not inviting him than having to explain not inviting her!
Sure, but I think they’d rather just suck up a bit of twitter outrage over a fairly minor snub that’ll burn out within a day or two rather than open that can of worms again. If it comes down to people getting shirty that an actress wasn’t invited to the Oscars or reminding everyone that their film had a likely sex offender in it, they’ll cheerfully go with the option that avoids people linking their film to a likely sex offender since public relations 101 is pretty much “if you don’t have to talk about sex crimes, don’t talk about sex crimes”.
Oh you mean Tonsil Surfbort
“bad touch love interest”?
I want to know if her bad touch love interest from the film was invited.Lord, I hope not. He’s the reason I didn’t see WSS. Sorry, rest of the cast & crew.
1) It seems wrong when she’s the lead in a Best Picture
nominee, but it’s just how the invites work. There’s limited space in
the room. Nominees and presenters get seats, and Zegler personally is
neither. Her only hope was if someone else involved in the film who’s
nominated brought her as their guest (or now people are complaining,
maybe some kind Disney executive could sympathise and give her their own
spot).
I do remember when Parasite won it seemed
like the whole cast was there, so I don’t know how that worked… I
guess because it was nominated for both Best Picture & Best
International Film they had some extra seats?
2) Spielberg himself has 2 nominations, so he has at least 2 guests. Instead of making a phone call, he could have just personally invited her along with, presumably, his wife. Seems like that would have been the nice thing to do, but maybe he assumed Disney would have sorted a seat for her already.
That goes for film productions (like the one I am so lucky to be currently shooting in London)It seems like this might play a role in her not being there, but they should have at least extended an invite to her.
It does seem pretty ridiculous. Maybe it’s just an oversight, but you’d sort of think she’d be part of the party.
It’s doubly insane for her not to be invited when the Academy is having a public meltdown about dwindling ratings. You know what could help bring in some juice? The youthful star of one of the year’s biggest movies!
??…The movie was a flop. I loved it but it bombed and the kids are not tuning into the Oscars to see Rachel Zegler
year’s biggest movies?? I want to live where you are. I loved it but it was a big flop. The kids are not tuning into the Oscars to see Rachel Zegler. They’re offering them a performance of We Don’t Talk About Bruno
1) If you invite her, you have to invite the guy she starred opposite – Eggshell Golfwart, who may have done some rather unsavory things to women that the Academy would prefer not to be drawing attention to.2) She isn’t nominated, so they thought they had a solution by not inviting either of the stars but then this blew up so…3) They invite her to be a presenter4) Jokes on them – she’s in London and probably didn’t plan on attending anyway.
I never thought I would find myself using the phrase “fake news” but this has to be the phoniest gingered up controversy in Tinseltown history. WSS was a box office disappointment but it still propelled Ms Zeglar onto the A list overnight. How can anyone believe that her personal assistant’s personal assistant couldn’t find her a pair of tickets with one phone call?
The only possible explanation I could think of is if due to Covid rules they’re only inviting people who were nominated by name. Otherwise this is absolute horseshit, Spielberg’s West Side Story would not work without her. The best parts of the movie are the nominated supporting characters, but she should get an special Oscar for somehow saving the movie as a whole from Ansel Elgort’s cardboard performance.
Whoops, I forgot Mike Faist wasn’t actually nominated. I thought it was a great performance
Yea it really was. He should have been.
Faist was incredible.
He was nominated at the BAFTAs at least. But it’s a real shame he didn’t get an Oscar nomination for his brilliant, scene stealing work in West Side Story when Jesse Plemons (who I like quite a bit!) somehow got a nomination for The Power of the Dog for a role where he does very little.
Maybe this is even tougher, but maybe have her present the accountants or something so she gets an official invite.
The only possible explanation I could think of is if due to Covid rules they’re only inviting people who were nominated by name.
It’s not even due to COVID, that’s how it always works. It’s just that for a film with a Best Picture nom as well as multiple others, they’d usually try to coordinate it so other important people get one of the guest tickets.It’s not the Academy’s fault for not specifically inviting her, that’s normal. It was on the producers/Disney to include her in their allocation.
Poor writing on my part, I meant if the Academy is only allowing attendees who are either presenting or nominated by name.
Oh, I get ya. There is a lower seating capacity this year in an attempt at social distancing. It could well be that there are less studio/guest tickets than usual, which could have led to this.
“in a surprising and extremely questionable move”I’m not crying out for journalistic objectivity or anything from the AV Club, but can’t we do better than this surprising and extremely questionable writing style?
In formal writing you’re supposed to use as many adverbs, superlatives, and adjectives as you possibly can.
That’s very extremely (and somewhat disappointingly) correct, and I’ve begun absentmindedly noticing that it’s somewhat lately trending on (arguably) questionably-competent sites, such as the one we’re feebly commenting on in the underwhelming present.
Any other type of writing would be a real gamechanger. A surprising and questionable flex.
If she knew anything about how Oscar invites are distributed, she’d know that there was no “extremely questionable move” by the Academy. But that would have taken a 30-second Google search to research.Why Disney didn’t use one of its invitations for her is a valid question other writers have raised.
What do they care if they can get some clickbait outrage going until people scroll down and realize this is totally normal
“When a fan commented on her Instagram “Can’t wait to see what you’ll be wearing on Oscar night,” Zegler revealed that she won’t be attending the ceremony. She wrote, “I’m not invited so sweatpants and my boyfriend’s flannel.”Had to drop in the fact that she has a boyfriend, lest the fan think they’ve got a shot.
Wow. You typed that on purpose.
Yes, I referenced something that, sadly, women sometimes have to do when a guy, usually an overly friendly stranger, makes them uncomfortable. My girlfriend said it was okay to type it, if that makes you feel better.
I’ve been on the receiving end of dozens of “I”ll be wearing my boyfriend’s flannel” comments in my teens and twenties.
They always tell me they’re ‘washing their hair’ when I ask them out…:(
It’s sad that women have been trained to feel so unsafe in their past interactions with men that they sometimes feel like they have to do this to escape a creeper who they know won’t take “no” for an answer.
While that’s certainly true, there’s also the harmless variation, too. “Definitely not into this guy, don’t want him to even think there’s a chance.”
No, it’s GOOD that women are learning to shut down toxic masculinity. It’s sad that men make women feel unsafe in the first place. This isn’t on women.
I’ve heard it from my wife…
My girlfriend wears my flannels all the time. You wouldn’t know her. She’s from Canada.
This tracks. Don’t all Canadians wear flannel?
If the phrase ‘Canadian Tuxedo’ is anything to go by then I believe that ‘double-denim’ (i.e the combination of blue denim jeans and a blue denim shirt) is also a popular sartorial choice in the frozen lands of the North.
I thought a “flannel” was a washcloth. What part of the guy’s wardrobe is a flannel?
Soft button up shirt that usually has a check pattern. US parlance
In the parlance of our times, yeah, man, it’s called a fucking flannel, okay?
It’s the type of fabric, particularly – yes, soft, usually cotton, but originally wool, I think. It’s known for being warm/cozy. Shirts are most common but bedsheets too, and pajamas. And it doesn’t HAVE to be plaid, though it’s weird when it’s a solid color (when I was in high school for some reason flannel shirts which were solid colors were popular for awhile).
Not sure if you’re kidding or not….
Well now I’m just imaging her sitting there with nothing but a few strategically positioned washcloths.
That’s too bad! I haven’t had much of a dating life since AVC stopped running clickbait articles on how to date actresses from the Game of Thrones cast.
I, on the other hand, am grateful they stopped that. My wife would leave me for Maisie Williams in a hearbeat. I don’t need her getting any help.
How dare she try to avoid being harassed
If she didn’t want to be harassed, she shouldn’t have starred in a movie where Egoat Golfshirt played the other romantic lead.
In fairness, the allegations against Englehort only came out after filming had wrapped.
when did she say “how dare she”
Or, more likely, she thought it was relevant to illustrate how little she’s going to be caring about her appearance that night in contrast to how she would glam up for the Oscars. It’d be less conversational and more weird to say “oversized flannel”
Actually, my first thought on hearing that comment was that the fan was female or gay. Statistically, I think it’s still likely.
She knows what she’s doing.
Further proof the Oscars are overrated and can be ignored.
Well yes but …well yes , yes they can!
Obligatory: she’s probably better off with the boyfriend and the flannel Also: how do you guys do something this dick?
I wholeheartedly endorse the use of the word “dick” as an adjective.
That’s really weird. Is this a thing that happens? Now I’m wondering what other actors didn’t get invited for their movies.
It’s probably more common in the 7-10 Best Picture nominees era than before. What’s interesting is she seems like she’d be a prime candidate to present one of the handful of categories they chose not to televise since the Academy traditionally picks breakout stars and ingénues for those awards.
7 to 10 best picture and, possibly, some lingering Covid-19 limits on number if people invited
Apparently it’s the nominated movie’s studio that disburses the invites, which in this case is Disney.Which makes this even weirder, since she’s their new Snow White. You’d think they’d want to hype her up.
Seeing as how she’s in London shooting said Snow White movie maybe Disney didn’t think the hype they’ll get for her doing little more than walking the red carpet is worth the expense of flying her across the world and losing 3-4 production days on the movie.
The Oscars is 1 day, and they do this stuff all the time. Every year for decades for plenty of stars, so unlikely.Most likely they didn’t invite ANY of the cast except for Ariana Debose and Rita Moreno so they wouldn’t have to explain why everyone BUT Ansel Elgort was invited
Maybe since the flick was such a box office bomb, they didn’t want to embarrass the actress any further.
Unpopular opinion: She is being whiny and entitled.
(1) She is overseas FILMING Snow White. For her to fly here to attend means Disney is paying $$$ to break the filming schedule (not just for 3 – 5 days, however long is needed for Covid protocols, so likely 2 weeks), which is both expensive and just asinine to everyone working on Snow White.
(2) This is in the era of 10 Best Picture noms, not 7, and so seating is already more limited.
(3) She isn’t nominated under any category, nor was her counterpart male lead or any supporting male lead, and it isn’t uncommon in that event for a lead not to be given a +1 ticket. Also, the persons being celebrated for Costume Design, Production Design, Sound and Cinematography are not one and the same, so Disney would be paying through the nose to bring her here to either sit at the front (with 2 other actors not nominated) thereby uninviting people who are deserving of recognition for their work in a nominated category.
She just seems like a brat to me for this, honestly. I can’t imagine it wasn’t already explained. She just thinks she can bully her way to a seat on social media by subtweeting Disney, and it isn’t a good look at all. Not even her subsequent conciliatory tweet seemingly acknowledging that others did, in fact, do work on the film does it for me.
This seems strange. Sorry if this sounds shallow, but I’d think they would at least want her to walk the red carpet.
…you know…because of the hotness exuded…
“Others in the industry chimed in, expressing their outrage as well.”OK, we don’t know the facts, so let’s all calm down until we do. LMAO @ “outrage!!!”
You might not feel outraged, but the statement that others in the industry have expressed outrage is objectively true
It’s such a cheap word nowadays, used for everything and by everyone, irregardless of how much ACTUAL outrage is felt.
You sound pretty outraged over this
Seems like a really odd oversight. If a film gets nominated, the leads should be there at the very least.
I hope she gets to go since she wants to go, but is this more common than we think? She isn’t personally nominated and although it seems odd the Academy wouldn’t want her there, maybe it happens year in/year out. Are the leads of all the other nominated movies that didn’t get their own noms all get invited? If so, this is certainly weird.
Latine? That’s a thing now?
Wow, the Academy Awards are a fuckin shitshow this year. Our institutions are all crumbling, even the really dumb self-important ones.
But Disney is the one who calls the shots here unless she was personally nominated.
Yeah, they own ABC, so I can’t fathom how this happened. Whoever’s running this year’s Academy Awards must’ve had a brick dropped on their head recently
On a somewhat unrelated note, I much prefer “latine” to “Latinx”.
Not me. Latinx sounds like a cool 90s X-Men spin-off book. Latine is one letter away from being an outdoor bathroom.
I’m still trying to figure out what was wrong with just saying “Latin.”(Latinx is often hard for Spanish-speakers – you know, many of whom would ostensibly identify as “Latinx” – to pronounce)
Because “Latin” isn’t used by anyone that word is used to describe. I grew up around Spanish speakers of all kinds of ethnicities, and they either use “Latin-0/a” or “Hispanic” when they’re not being specific about their nationality.
I grew up around Spanish speakers too (mainly Mexican) and they certainly didn’t use “Latinx” or “Latine” either.
Nope. Unless they’re super progressive or in social justice movements (which, I’d like to clarify, is fine. Don’t wanna come off like some right-wing lunatic), “Latinx” is pretty much unheard of amongst most Spanish speakers. My wife (who’s family is from Jalisco) even asked me what the hell it meant.
This is the first time I’ve seen it used. Latin is … fine. It doesn’t have the same mouth feel (I honestly can’t think of a better way to say that.)Is it pronounced LaTEENE? Cause that is how I hear it, and it sounds much better than Lat’n.I can’t stand LatinX.
I think “Latine” is pronounced “LaTEENE,” but I’m the worst person to ask since I thought Latinx was pronounced “La-tinks” for the longest time (I can’t stand it either). I imagine Spanish speakers would pronounce “Latin” as “LaTEENE” too. If I saw the word “Latine” in a sentence written in Spanish, I would probably pronounce it “Latin-eh.”
yeah, I think the general rule is stress on the penultimate syllable if word ends in vowel or n or s, unless an accent mark indicates otherwise.
Any two syllable word that ends in “ine” makes me hungry for tagine or poutine.
Yes, same. I hope its usage grows. It is a much more organic evolution of the English language, which rarely uses an “nx” construction (and never uses it with an “nex” pronunciation, and almost never uses it in the way that Latinx tries to do, as a show of gender neutrality. Latine is easily pronounced by an English speaker who has never seen it before. I’ve honestly heard people pronounce Latinx “La-tinks.” Latinx is clunky and, quite frankly, mostly consigned to usage in academic circles. Pew Research from a couple of years ago found that most of the Latine population in the US preferred the terms Hispanic (61%) and Latino (29%) as blanket terms, despite the gendered origins of Latino. Only 3% of those surveyed said they used Latinx, and only about a quarter of the Hispanic population even knew what the term was. https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2020/08/11/about-one-in-four-u-s-hispanics-have-heard-of-latinx-but-just-3-use-it/
Dang I wish I would’ve read your comment before saying a lot of the same things less eloquently lol. Right down to the “LA-tinks” pronunciation too! I agree that it’s clear to non-Hispanophones what it means, but I’m actually not 100% on the pronunciation on it either. I’m assuming it’s supposed to be 3 syllables–la-TEEN-ay–but most Anglophones would probably pronounce it with 2 syllables at first sight–like la-TEEN.
My assumption was the three syllable pronunciation, like lah-teen-ay, but honestly it’s not my area, so I checked with a colleague who works in LatAm literature, and she confirmed that’s correct. (That said, I wouldn’t be surprised if it eventually morphed into lah-teen if the term gets Americanized and more widely adopted)
I do too. This is the first time I’ve seen it. Latinx is just so unwieldy. I always assumed it was pronounced “LA-tinks” until I heard someone actually say “Latin X,” and it just sounds really awkward. It’s a word that works much better in print than spoken, which defines a lot of internet lingo. If I’m not mistaken, changing the -a/-o to -e was an existing move among Hispanophones to neutralize the gender of words, so it makes more sense than using the -x construction, which feels like a very Anglophone way of neutralizing the word. I mean, I know x=variable transcends language, but it always felt like a word that was created and used much more often by allies than actual Latine people.
The only people who actually use the term Latinx are white people on twitter.
I hope Billy Crystal really lets the Academy have it in the Opening Monologue.
Don’t they just give tickets to the nominees only, along with X more for the studio and Y for the big nominees to give to guests? (And yes, that includes Spielberg.)
Yes. I guess we’re supposed to be outraged that the entire casts of every film nominated aren’t physically there at every awards ceremony. Surely folks can realize it would require a much bigger venue?
Given how much play this got in the news cycle of the last few days, I’d say that most folks don’t understand that.
I could have sworn that the main cast of Best Picture nominees all got invited. I recall the cast of The Full Monty being at the Oscar’s the year that was nominated. And no disrespect to Mark Addy, but if the fat guy from the Full Monty can be there, along with the lesser Monty’s, the new Maria from West Side Story certainly shouldn’t be reduced to this.
Looking at the 1998 Oscars nominees, it looks as if Fox really didn’t have a whole lot of people/VIPs to distribute tickets to — Titanic, despite being a Fox co-production, would’ve been under the Paramount umbrella/allotment — so giving tickets to the cast of your lone Best Picture nominee wouldn’t be an internal studio issue.
I suspect it’s a mixture of social distancing and Ansel Elgort. They officially invite her, they presumably gotta officially invite him. And if they invite him, they get the fun of explaining why they invited an accused sex offender to the Oscars. So they don’t invite either of them, with social distancing requirements allowing them a convenient out. And since people are gonna be yelling self-righteously at them either way (since that’s the world we live in now), they’d presumably rather have people yelling at them for the comparatively milder faux pas of not inviting a hot young Colombian-descended actress than have people yelling at them for validating someone who apparently likes to send dick pics to fourteen year olds.
I’m pretty sure there are going to be at least a few accused sexual offenders at the Oscars, with or without Elgort.
Sure, but they’re not gonna draw attention to it they don’t have to is my point. Bringing Ansel Elgort along risks drawing attention to it.
This has to be some sort of “COVID protocol spacing-out” of people, right? Which must include not inviting people who weren’t nominated? … But of course, Producers who were low on the heirarchical scale were I’m sure invited.
It’s the studio execs that decide how the tickets are distributed. What a shock that they favor their own!
Yeah, I had sort of answered my own question, but you confirm it. They’ve been shamed into letting her present now, though.
Zegler is either incredibly obtuse or just playing this for press. If they invited you they’d have to invite your sexual predator costar.
It’s fine, they can just bump Martin Scorsese.
Who is rachel zegler?
UPDATE, March 22: After Rachel Zegler replied to a fan on Instagram saying she was not invited to the Oscars, many rallied to get the West Side Story star an invite. Per The Hollywood Reporter, those efforts worked out, as the actor has now been invited to the Academy Awards as a presenter.Good grief, I think there’s a pretty big gulf between “inviting star of Oscar-nominated movie to Oscars” and “hold production of major studio film to have person who has only been in one released film present at Oscars because some people got mad on Instagram.”
I guess I’m in the minority on holding this opinion, but I don’t care for this decision at all. The name ‘Karen’ has taken on a rather unfortunate connotation in the last couple of years. And if you want to know where the type of people who embody the ‘Karen’ stereotype come from, look to this situation. Know why ‘Karen’ is always asking to talk to the manager? Because she’s discovered that complaining gets her stuff.
Nah, I’m with you on this. She could have been the bigger person but every “I’m happy for our cast and crew” was followed up with “but I still realllllllly want to go”.
What are you guys going on about?An actress wishing she was invited to awards in two posts to her personal social media without personally making an issue or insulting anyone about it is her being a Karen now?And if your point is she rallied fans to her cause – the Oscars are supposed to be an award show that generates fan interest. Seems like if a large number of people latched on to fairly minor comments she made and campaigned for her to be a part of the show, it’s in the Oscars’ best interests to include her and their decision-making around who to include or not include is inherently flawed to begin with.
Oh, I’m with you 100%. I don’t see why she couldn’t have just talked to Spielberg about it instead of get the Instagram mob riled up. This could end up hurting her in the long run since producers will probably remember the circumstances of how she got invited.
I wonder why the Oscars broadcast is dying….anywhoooo, you guys think 7 is enough nominations for that meh movie or should we suck up to Steven more?
Great job Rachel’s publicist!
Phew! I’ll sleep well tonight. Can’t wait to see what she’s wearing!
So she can come if she works? Nice.
Of course, the real irony of all this would be if she actually didn’t want to go to the Oscars and was looking forward to vegging out on the sofa but just felt she had to be diplomatic / careful about it how she said that, and now all these people complaining on her behalf has just completely ruined her evening.
My guess is somewhere along the line here a manager/agent knew she’d be working in London and didn’t pursue the invite. Glad she complained and got her way though.
the actor has now been invited to the Academy Awards as a presenter.It’s embarrassing how it was *that easy* and it still took the Academy getting called out to happen.Good for her.
Now that she’s been invited she should be like “Ohhh, darn, sorry I made other plans”