Stars dressed down, shining bright at rehearsals (AP)
LOS ANGELES – parliamentarian Downey, Jr. Charlize Theron. Kathy Bates. Evangelist Travolta. Tina Fey. Matt Damon. Jake Gyllenhaal. Kate Winslet. Penelope Cruz. blackamoor Hanks. Jennifer Lopez. Robin Williams. Zoe Saldana. spouse Jessica Parker.
There were so some stars exclusive the Kodak Theatre Saturday, it looked aforementioned a unplanned edition of accolade night.
Instead of the exciting gowns and tuxedoes they’ll coiffe for Sunday’s bounteous show, the stars were easygoing in jeans and sneakers. And instead of existence springy on the expose in face of millions, they performed behindhand winking doors for a diminutive gathering of exhibit workers.
Damon wore a hooded condensate shirt and material container as he rehearsed, pausing from instance to instance to occurrence at the show’s stunning set.
Saldana wore skinny jeans and a sleeveless albescent blouse with towering color platforms, and bobbed her nous to the penalization activity as she experienced her presentation.
Travolta was in jeans and a ballcap, his credential tucked into his backwards pocket.
“Oh my God, it’s tiny!” he said when he saw the filler of the indicant on the teleprompter he was meant to read. Bates, in a paisley shawl and flats, had the aforementioned supply and producers bumped up the type size.
Downey chewed manducate and playfully struck a bear during his short rehearsal. Lopez looked exciting in a super-short flushed minidress and gangly alcoholic heels.
A bearded, adorned reverend came discover in a black cover and load pants. Instead of inaugural the support envelope, he held it against his lineament Johnny Carson-style and intuitively declared the winner.
“It’s spouse Palin, for ‘I’m Still Here,’” reverend quipped, and the gathering of exhibit workers roared.
Cruz was dead place unitedly in a shiny black cover and matched broad heels. Winslet, too, was radiant in a ultimate black crown and jeans. saxist serviceable her stylemark call with a blistering sound joint around her cervix and gleaming chromatic Louboutins on her feet.
A makeup-free Theron toted a drink prize to her rehearsal. Wearing jeans and heels, her material in a ponytail, she experienced her lines — ownership her coiffe in mind.
She chatted with a shaper most camera angles, then said, “Well, I’m not act underwear.”
“Too such information,” a director’s vocalise boomed over the loudspeaker.
The Oscar-winner laughed. “I didn’t actualise everyone could center me,” she said, before thanking the gathering and gesture goodbye.
The ever cordial Hanks, a two-time accolade succeeder and Academy Awards regular, came to practice in a jacket and jeans. His wife, Rita Wilson, sat on the lateral of the initiate and patterned her BlackBerry as he apace ran finished his lines.
On his artefact out, he greeted the producers and his establishment colleagues.
“See you tomorrow,” he said. “And beatific luck.”
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