Girls Gone Styled at the Screen Actors Guild Awards
By Scott Huver, Special to Hollywood.com
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Monday, January 26, 2009
Another newly minted Oscar nominee, Viola Davis, was Doubting the reality of her surroundings as she strolled the red carpet. “It is surreal because there is nothing in your regular life that can prepare you for this,” she admitted. “This is not natural. This is something that you only imagine and you only dream and so when it really hits and it's a reality you don't even know how to embrace it. Although you know it's something sweet and something wonderful. That's where I am right now.” I wondered if her co-star Meryl Streep had offered any advice on whethering the through-the-looking-glass sensation of awards season – if anyone would, she’d know. “She's not an advice woman. She really isn't. She just watches you and she relies on the fact that you know better.”
It seems that the uglier Betty gets, the more enchanting America Ferrera becomes, wafting in wearing a winsome Vera Wang creation that’s desperately needed in her character’s closet. Wouldn’t America love to share her own style with little Miss Suarez, just once. “I think Betty’s got a long way to go,” she laughed.
I was Mad for January Jones, who walked like an Egyptian in an exotic design by Andrew Ng, and she dusted her eyes with enough gold to make any Pharoah envious. “I just thought that the dress was very kind of Egyptian and so I wanted to do a little Cleopatra feel,” said January, and she certainly knocked me on my asp.
I asked January’s co-star Christina Hendricks, who clothed her dangerous curves in crimson Carolina Herrera, whether there would be more drinking, smoking and snogging on the show or with what would happen tonight if her cast won the ensemble award? “Well, there’s a lot on the show, but the Mad Men cast likes to party, so we’ll see,” she purred. “We’re a very grateful group on Mad Men. We really know how lucky we are to be there. I think we’re all really fans of one another, so this will be really special for us.”
Saving Grace star Holly Hunter certainly didn’t LOOK like she was ready to pick up a spare in her princess-pink Rheem Acra gown, but she insisted that for people in her profession the SAG Awards are “our bowling league night, which just happens to be like this. This is what we do. I'm thrilled with these celebrations. They're necessary for any group of professionals, and ours just happens to be very high-profile.”
Jennifer Morrison, who with her House docs was up for the best ensemble award, was also basking in the glow of actor-love. “We're super excited to be nominated because I think that all actors are fairly insecure and you always wonder if you're any good,” she explained. “When another actor is voting for you and saying that they like your work it means a lot.”
But it took Penelope Cruz to perfectly put the SAG evening into words, which sounded even more special in her alluring Spanish accent. “This is a very special ceremony to me,” Penelope told me. “I'm very, very grateful for this nomination because these are my fellow actors giving this to me. There is so much talent in that room. Just to be around them, I feel very privileged and very good to be in that company.”
And as I watched the sultry star waft away in her slinky, inky black Alaia gown, which glimmered as if sprinkled with as much stardust as was swirling around on us, I knew how she felt. And by then, not a single eye was on the giant naked man at the end of the red carpet.
MORE: Check out the SAG Red Carpet Photo Gallery