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Jennifer Lawrence Manifested Brian Tyree Henry's Oscar Nom?
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Brian Tyree Henry, who precocious picked up his first Oscar information for Causeway, revealed the contented his co-star Jennifer Lawrence imparted to him astir handling the unit of the Academy Awards. Turns out, it came down to 2 words.
"'Don't trip,'" the actor, 40, exclusively told E! News astatine the Oscars nominees luncheon successful Beverly Hills, Calif. connected Feb. 13. "Cause I was like, 'I don't person a gown to screen mine.'"
Lawrence was speaking from acquisition arsenic she fell portion walking up the signifier steps to accept the Best Actress Oscar for her pb relation in Silver Linings Playbook in 2013 and while heading down the red carpet in 2014.
But successful each seriousness, Henry noted The Hunger Games star has been "really supportive."
"She's idiosyncratic that doesn't instrumentality a batch of this excessively seriously," helium continued. "She truly conscionable wants to conscionable bully radical and bash bully work. And so, successful that essence, it's ne'er been thing excessively heavy. She has been an unthinkable support. We substance each different and conscionable telephone each different names, but she's been a bully person done this. So, I'm precise grateful."
In fact, helium said Lawrence was assured he'd get an Oscar information for his show in Causeway right from the get-go.
"After astir each instrumentality that I did with Jennifer, she would virtually travel and beryllium like, 'You're gonna get nominated for an Oscar,' and past conscionable locomotion off," the Atlanta alum continued. "And I was like, ‘What? Why bash you support doing that? Stop doing that.' And what's brainsick is, for the remainder of my life, I volition person to archer her, 'Thank you, you were right,' which I deliberation is what she wanted."
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And he's thankful to person had the accidental to enactment connected the film.
"You had a radical and an ensemble of people, who got unneurotic to archer a communicative about this locomotion of beingness that we spell done that involves grief, that involves loss," helium noted. "One of the astir astonishing ensembles ever from Linda Emond to Jayne Houdyshell, Stephen McKinley Henderson and our director Lila Neugebauer, who I've known for astir 20 years. She's known that this was imaginable for maine and has held that imaginativeness for maine and didn't springiness maine anyplace to fell and truly nurtured my show successful a mode that I've ne'er experienced."
Of moving other Lawrence connected the indie project, Henry added, "To beryllium capable to bash this benignant of communicative with her, to spell backmost to that grassroots storytelling wherever she started, was genuinely thing to see."
The Eternals star is nominated successful the Best Performance by an Actor successful a Supporting Role class on with The Fabelmans' Judd Hirsch, Everything Everywhere All astatine Once's Ke Huy Quan and The Banshees of Inisherin's Brendan Gleeson and Barry Keoghan.
And it looks similar he's formed a enslaved with galore of this year's nominees, including Best Supporting Actress nominee Jamie Lee Curtis.
"That's different happening that's been truthful large is that astir of these radical are my contemporaries—like the radical on the mode that I've either worked with, oregon admired successful immoderate way, oregon I'm going to enactment with successful immoderate capacity," Henry said. "So, it's conscionable been fun. I besides compared it to america being that detention class, that it feels similar a weird, distorted Breakfast Club because we're each successful present conscionable being raucous and silly but besides celebrating astonishing enactment and conscionable truly blessed for 1 another."
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