If you've been following me on Twitter this weekend, you probably saw me freak out at a Michelle Williams and Busy Phillips sighting yesterday backstage at the Independent Spirit Awards. Yes, I'm in LA! While here for some business meetings I made sure to schedule some time to take advantage of one of the biggest awards season weekends of the year. Yesterday, I covered backstage at the Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica and have never experienced such a scene!
The event was held right on the beach with the purple carpet facing the ocean. The awards were held in one big tent and all around that tent were smaller tents of gifting lounges and open bars. The actors and actresses were in a very laid back fashion walking around in between presenters and everyone was hanging out as if it was one big festival on the beach. Here were some highlights:
I chatted with Carson Kressley (the guy from Queer Eye) on his idea of beach chic (since that was the dress code for the event and Oscar predictions. Check out the video here.
In a gifting lounge, celebs like Jeffery Dean Morgan, Penelope Anne Miller and Gabrielle Beauvais were flocking to the Votre Vu table (of course I was hanging out by the beauty stuff) and couldn't wait to get their hands on SnapDragon. Jeffery Dean Morgan also visited Wella and was joking around about his hair and what he needed while posing with a bottle of styling product.
I ventured into the Piaget gifting suite (yes, the celebs are also gifted with diamonds) with my friend Nola from Glam.com and ran into Rosario Dawson who was practically being hit on every two seconds. We sat with her on the couch drinking mimosas and kept laughing as people approached her. First a fashion stylist wanting to give her a bag she made, then a man who practically proposed and it went on. She was so accepting to all of them. Nola and I sat there discussing how hard it must be to really have to put up with that.
Throughout the day, A-listers like Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen, Penelope Ann Miller and Kate Beckinsale all walked by countless amount of times, but it was Michelle Williams and Busy Phillips who had me at awe. I'm rarely caught off guard by a celebs presence, but seeing them together as two best friends in such a casual setting was very cool. Check out the video below!
I'm super excited to watch Michelle Williams play Marilyn Monroe in My Week With Marilyn. From the pictures I've seen, I can't get over how glamorous she looks and found out a bit about her transformation. The movie comes out on November 25th, but take a peek at the trailer after the jump.
"I couldn't re-arrange my face and body to look like hers, " Williams comments to the Hollywood Reporter. To transform her look a bit, Williams flew to London quite a few times to meet with makeup artist, Jenny Shircore. "We spent half a day just standing in front of a mirror," she says. "We weren't trying to reconfigure my face. We were trying to add, you know, the curve of the lip, an eyeliner. It began a long process."
