Michael Sheen and Sally Hawkins Interview
Sally Hawkins from "Happy-Go-Lucky" scored 'Breakthrough Actress' Award honors at the 12th Annual Hollywood Film Festival. Before picking up her trophy, Hawkins and "Frost/Nixon" star Michael Sheen talked about Oscar buzz and more.
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Transcript: Michael Sheen and Sally Hawkins Interview
Rebecca Murray from About.com Hollywood Movies at the 12th Annual Hollywood Film Festival Awards Gala.
Michael Sheen from Frost/Nixon and 'Breakthrough Actress' Award Winner Sally Hawkins from Happy-Go-Lucky
Tell me about the Breakthrough Award - that's fantastic.
Sally Hawkins: "Yeah, it's pretty special. It's lovely."
Michael Sheen: "What's it like when you break on through to the other side? What is on the other side?"
Sally Hawkins: "I'm not there yet so I'll let you know. I'll send you a text."
Well you should be there now. You know what's on that side. What is it?
Michael Sheen: "It's great. You wake up in the morning and there are people surrounding your bed, just stroking your face. And then they just tell you how great you are all day."
Sally Hawkins: "How nice, nice."
That's what you have to look forward to.
Sally Hawkins: "Yeah, I can't wait to breakthrough."
And for such a film that everybody is falling in love with… What do you think the Oscar chances are?
Sally Hawkins: "I don't think…well…my name and Oscar to be in the same sentence is quite lovely but yeah. How can you answer that question?"
Michael Sheen: "I'm just enjoying watching Sally squirm trying to answer that."
Sally Hawkins: "Silently on the sidelines. How is the Oscar buzz?"
Michael Sheen: "The best thing about Oscar buzz is that if your name starts getting mentioned to do with Oscars and then you don't get a nominated, you feel like a failure. And I think that's really healthy for everybody to go through that experience – at least twice."
Sally Hawkins: "I suppose I'm going to go through that."
Michael Sheen: "It's in the category of really good problems to deal with."
Sally Hawkins: "Okay."
How was bringing Frost/Nixon to the screen different than on the stage?
Michael Sheen: "You have to get up earlier. And you have to keep away from the craft service table a lot more because the problem with doing a film where there's craft service in America is that by the end of the movie, you're about 30 pounds heavier than you were at the beginning. So you have scenes where you come out through a door looking quite svelte, and then as you come out the other side of the door, you're like a porker. And that was a problem."
And that was the worst thing about making it into a movie?
Michael Sheen: "That was the worst thing, yeah."