Rose Byrne and Timothee Chalamet won the Golden Globes for best performance by a male and female actor in in a motion picture – musical or comedy for their starring roles in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You and Marty Supreme.
Byrne smiled through tears in an acceptance speech that included effusive praise for writer-director Mary Bronstein, who cast her as the very stressed-out mother in the psychological comedy-drama.
“She wrote this unbelievable screenplay, and she wanted me to do it,” Byrne said. “You are just the best. Thank you for believing in me.”
After noting that the low-budget film was shot in “like 25 days for US$8.50,” she finished by thanking her husband, actor Bobby Cannavale, who wasn’t with her on Sunday at the Globes.
“We are getting a bearded dragon, and he went to a reptile expo in New Jersey,” Byrne explains as the audience laughed. “So, thank you, baby.”
Chalamet was less effusive in his remarks from the stage after winning for playing a table tennis hopeful in Marty Supreme. He did thank director Josh Safdie and most of the members of the cast, including Kevin O’Leary, one of the business experts on Shark Tank.
“If you’d have told me when I was 19 years old I’d be thanking Mr. Wonderful from Shark Tank,” he said, as the audience, including O’Leary, laughed.
One Battle After Another, a film classified as a comedy for the Golden Globes, snagged a pair of Globes for writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson, who won for – this is obvious, isn’t it? – best screenplay and best director for a motion picture.
“Writers, we’re magpies,” Anderson said in accepting the Golden Globe for best screenplay. “We steal all the bits and pieces that everybody says as best we can.”
He mentioned snagging one salty line from a writer who acted in the movie, and from novelist Thomas Pynchon, whose work was loosely adapted for the film.
“I stole some words from Nina Simone,” he added. “Someone asked her what freedom is, she said, ‘No fear'. Pretty good line. So I share this with everybody I magpied off of.”
Later, after winning for best director – motion picture, Anderson thanked his assistant director Adam Sumner, noting that the title assistant director doesn’t do justice to how important an AD is to a film’s success. Warner Bros. Entertainment chairman Mike DeLuca also got a shout out from Anderson, who credited him with creating a studio where directors could follow their muses.
“That’s how you get a Sinners, that’s how you get Weapons, that’s how you get One Battle After Another,” he said. – The Orange County Register/Tribune News Service
