I’m David Canfield, and it’s been a whirlwind 24 hours for this season’s Golden Globe nominees, ranging from legends who’ve won several of these trophies already (Kate Winslet, Angelina Jolie) to breakouts celebrating what feels like the first of many career nods (Mikey Madison, Ariana Grande). But of course, the work to get here did not start yesterday. The nominees’ films have been years in the making, and in many cases, even getting them seen has proved challenging.
“I never would’ve dreamt that I was going to be going to the Globes with both of these films,” says Sebastian Stan, who spoke with my colleague Savannah Walsh yesterday after learning of his dual best-actor noms for The Apprentice and A Different Man. The future of the former movie, featuring Stan doing Donald Trump in a bold, warts-and-all performance, has seemed especially unclear after the presidential election. “The movie has had a really uphill battle since Cannes,” Stan says. “It’s been hard for people to have permission to express how they feel about the movie…. It feels like hopefully going forward people can feel okay talking about it, and see it.”
But even for a mega pop star like Grande, all of the attention surrounding her beguiling turn as Glinda in Wicked continues to feel thrillingly, overwhelmingly new. “I don’t have words. I really don’t have words. I am trying to find them, but they seem to have escaped me,” she told my colleague Chris Murphy after learning of her Globe nomination, before singling out her acting coach Nancy Banks: “I’m thinking about all of the nights in our sweatpants where we sat on the floor with the scripts and read in between the lines, and got to know Glinda as much as I possibly could.”
For all of these contenders, the Globe nomination marks only the first major step on the Oscar campaign trail. But take it from Brazilian icon and first-time nominee Fernanda Torres,star of I’m Still Here, who recently told me this about embracing the chaos: “I don’t think this will happen again in my life. So let’s enjoy it.”
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