Bubbly? I just want a cuppa! Olivia Colman’s quip after her Oscars win
Bubbly? I just want a cuppa! Olivia Colman’s very English retort to BAZ BAMIGBOYE after her night of triumph at the Oscars
- The married mother-of-three won Best Actress Oscar for her role as Queen Anne
- 45-year-old has won an Academy Award, two Golden Globes and three Baftas
- She used her Oscar-winning speech to inspire other aspiring actors to ‘dream’
Olivia Colman was as shocked as anyone else when she learnt she had beaten the Hollywood favourite Glenn Close to win the Oscar for best actress.
She held back tears as she went up to receive the award at the glitzy ceremony in Los Angeles, describing it as ‘genuinely quite stressful’ before adding: ‘This is hilarious – I’ve got an Oscar!’
In her moving acceptance speech, she went on to apologetically address Close, saying: ‘This is not how I wanted it to be. And I think you’re amazing and I love you very much.’
Voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had spoken of their desire to honour Close for her role in The Wife because she had never won an Oscar, while at the same time recognising Colman’s superior performance in The Favourite.
One expressed the hope of a rare tie, as when Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand shared the best actress title in 1969 for The Lion In Winter and Funny Girl respectively.
Olivia Colman held back tears as she went up to receive the award at the glitzy ceremony in Los Angeles
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But it was not be – the big title was Colman’s alone.
Later, talking to the Daily Mail at the Academy Awards Governors Ball, the official after party, she revealed she was ‘gagging’ for a cup of tea, saying ‘it will calm me down, relax me a little’.
Sadly, tea was not on offer and the actress had to settle for champagne.
‘I suppose this will have to do,’ she said as a waiter poured her a flute of chilled Piper-Heidsieck.
British Best Actress winner Olivia Colman and husband Ed Sinclair on the red carpet last night – as her extraordinary acting journey took her to the very top at last
Overwhelmed: Olivia could not contain her glee as she gushed to her co-stars and her fans during the speech
Sitting at her table in the ballroom of the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on Sunday night, she told a friend who stopped by her that she was having ‘an out-of-body experience’.
She added: ‘I didn’t expect to win and every time I open my mouth I think I’m going to cry.’
Her husband Ed Sinclair, sitting opposite, said: ‘It’s very hard to compute. The realisation of her achievement hasn’t sunk in. Of course she knows that she has won the Oscar but at the same time she can’t believe it.’
He added: ‘It’s going to come out in little drops of realisation, one little drop at a time.
Olivia Colman is embraced by her husband and Emma Stone after her Best Actress win was announced
‘This is quite stressful’: The first time nominee was close to tears as she delivered a charming speech
Olivia’s stunning speech in full
‘It’s genuinely quite stressful. This is hilarious, I’ve got an Oscar.
‘I have to thank lots of people and if I forget anybody I’ll find you later and give you a massive snog [this is a kiss, for our overseas readers].
‘Yorgos, my best director and my best film, and Emily and Rachel the two best women in the world to fall in love with – you can imagine it wasn’t a hardship.
‘To be in this category, with these extraordinary women and Glenn Close – you are my idol and this is not how I wanted it to be. I love you all.
‘Lindy King my agent who took me on 20 years ago – thank you so much.
‘My mum and my dad and my kids who are at home watching, well if you’re not then well done, but I sort of hope you are. This is not going to happen again.
‘Any little girl who’s practising their speech on the telly – you never know! I used to work as a cleaner I used to love that job.
‘Oh – ‘please wrap up’ – [she is being told to end her speech, so she then blows a raspberry].
‘Ed [her husband] you’re my best friend and best supporter and he’s going to cry. I’m not. Thank you so much.
‘To Fox, everybody the cast the crew. Thank you, argh thank you so much. Lady Gaga I love you!”
‘It’s a childhood dream for her. She watched the Oscars on TV when she was growing up and you start thinking about it when you are an actor.
‘It’s on your radar. It’s not the reason you do it – you don’t act just to hope that one day you will win an Oscar.
‘But sometimes you dream about it and she has dreamt about it.’
Her win was hailed as a highlight of the 91st Academy Awards. ‘She is the queen of Hollywood in more than one sense,’ observed Ceci Dempsey, a lead producer of The Favourite, in which Colman plays Queen Anne.
Daniel Battsek, director of Film4, one of the main financiers of the film, which also starred Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz, added: ‘There hasn’t been a win of this magnitude in decades.’
Colman’s three children, aged 13, 11 and three, were in Los Angeles watching the broadcast at the house the actress had borrowed from her Hollywood agent.
In her acceptance speech – in which she blew a raspberry and flicked a small V-sign when told to hurry up and get off stage – she told her children ‘I sort of hope you are watching because this is not going to happen again’.
Her speech was hailed as one of the evening’s most memorable, with Dame Helen Mirren hailing it as coming ‘straight from the heart’.
Colman had said: ‘Any little girl who is practising their speech on the telly, you never know.
‘And when I used to work as a cleaner, and I loved that job, I did spend quite a lot of my time imagining this.’
Colman had said: ‘Any little girl who is practising their speech on the telly, you never know’
She can’t believe it! Behind-the-scenes, it seemed Olivia would not let go of the golden award as she rubbed shoulders with her fellow stars in a delighted display, while also pulling a number of silly faces
The comic timing she employed on the likes of Peep Show and Fleabag came in handy when a message flashed on a monitor in front of her, ‘Oh, please wrap up. Right, okay ,’ as she blew a raspberry that echoed around the auditorium.
Once she had stopped by the Governors Ball she went and changed: ‘I have been wanting to change out of my lovely gown. I’ve been sitting in it all night,’ she said as I walked with her to the doors of the ballroom.
Her face lit up at the prospect of going to the Vanity Fair party.
WOW: Olivia was stunned after beating out Yalitza Aparicio, Glenn Close, Lady Gaga and Melissa McCarthy for the Oscar
Gracious Close: She gazed at Close in the audience and said, ‘You’ve been my idol for so long and this is not how I wanted it to be’ as Close smiled and laughed
Big winners: Colman had her arm around Malek while King had her arm around her as they all held their Oscars
And once the parties were over, the statuette was going ‘in bed with me, between me and my husband – he doesn’t know yet’.
They plan to stay on in Los Angeles with their three children for a few more days before returning home.
They will take another family break over Easter and Colman is considering a small film project before filming the fourth series of The Crown for Netflix, where she portrays our present queen.
A dream in cream: Later in the evening, Olivia transformed into a different ensemble as she toted her gong at the Vanity Fair after-party
Creamy sensation: She looked nothing short of sensational for the star-studded event as she changed into a flowing cream gown with beaded adornments – with the entire outfit screaming ‘winner’
She’s already in high demand in the UK. Hollywood studio chiefs will know want to offer her lucrative roles.
‘I’ve never had the desire to do the empty, frothy big films. If the writing is good and the director is good, or an auteur like Yorgos Lanthimos who directed The Favourite, then you have my interest .
‘I don’t mind if rabbits wee on me like they did in The Favourite . We can always clean that up . But we can’t always find the good roles.’
OOPS! Best actor bites the dust
Rami Malek holds his Best Actor Oscar as he reacts after the show concluded
Rami Malek being helped to his feet while clutching his Oscar after falling
Rami Malek, recipient of the award for best performance by an actor in a leading role, speaks with medical staff after a fall at the Oscars on Sunday
Bohemian Rhapsody star Rami Malek tumbled off stage while posing for photos and was checked over by paramedics before emerging unscathed clutching his best actor Oscar.
Now that’s a Mirren makeover
Dame Helen Mirren, 73, shared a candid selfie as she got ready for the ceremony, at which she wore a Schiaparelli gown and £4.5million of Harry Winston diamonds
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