Insurgent Wilson is trying again on the first time she met Russell Crowe.
On the 2021 AACTA Awards final night time, the Pitch Good star, 41, recalled her awkward however hilarious first encounter with the Hollywood actor.
Following his opening remarks, Crowe, 57, welcomed Wilson on stage to current the award for Finest Drama Collection.
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“I’ve to let you know guys a narrative concerning the very first time that I met Russell,” Wilson started.
“I used to be a younger actor. I used to be, like, 19 and he was sitting there having dinner with Nicole Kidman at STC [Sydney Theatre Company]. I used to be like, ‘Oh, my God’ and I went as much as them and I used to be like actually nervous, and he turned to me, and he regarded me proper within the eyes, and he simply mentioned ‘F–k off!'”
The viewers laughed, earlier than Wilson added, “It is a true story!”
The Hustle star went on to notice Kidman gave her a “scholarship to go to America and examine comedy” a few years later, however Crowe hadn’t given her something to that diploma.
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“Russell did not give me something. No Rabbitohs merch — nothing,” Wilson continued. “You recognize, he did, although, a number of years in the past, give me a hug, after which he, like, sweetly whispered in my ear, ‘I assumed I instructed you to f–k off.'”
The 2021 AACTA Awards had been held on the Sydney Opera Home on Wednesday night time, with an entire host of Australia’s greatest stars making their return to the pink carpet.
Well-known faces together with Rachel Griffiths, Taika Waititi and Sarah Snook had been among the many internationally famend homegrown expertise who had flown in to attend this yr’s celebration of the Aussie trade.
However the largest star of the night time was Stan Authentic Nitram, which notched up eight wins. The movie tells the story of the lead-up to the 1996 Port Arthur bloodbath in Tasmania and follows a disturbed younger man named Nitram (based mostly on Martin Bryant). The filmmakers purposely spelt the shooter’s title backwards and prevented any on-screen violence after issues it was too quickly and too painful for the story to be instructed.
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Along with Finest Movie, Justin Kurzel received Finest Course in Movie whereas Shaun Grant was recognised for Finest Authentic Screenplay in Movie and Nick Fenton scored Finest Enhancing in Movie.
Different winners on the night time included Ellie and Abbie (& Ellie’s Lifeless Aunt), which was topped Finest Indie Movie and Mortal Kombat took dwelling two awards — for Finest Manufacturing Design in Movie and Finest Sound in Movie.
See the total listing of the 2021 AACTA Award winners right here.
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