Zeta-Jones and Scarlett Johansson snubbed Tonys press

[morosco]

Posted: 6/14/10 at 7:39pm

Back in the Tony Awards' press room Sunday night, journalists were furious when Catherine Zeta-Jones ("A Little Night Music") and Scarlett Johansson ("A View from the Bridge") refused to drop by and answer questions, which winners usually do. Zeta-Jones merely posed for paparazzi photos and answered a few questions from TonyAwards.com, then made a dash for the elevator with her Tony trophy clutched firmly in hand. Johansson raced directly from the photo room to the elevator, shooing everyone away with a dismissive wave.
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[musicnerd234]

Posted: 6/14/10 at 11:17pm

This is why Hollywood actors should stay in Hollywood! CZJ performance of "Send In The Clowns" was awful, I assume that why she left when she did!

[ljay889]

Posted: 6/14/10 at 11:19pm

Zeta-Jones attended all of the press events before the big night. Even while she was sick. I don't see the big deal.

[binau]

Posted: 6/14/10 at 11:29pm

"This is why Hollywood actors should stay in Hollywood! CZJ performance of "Send In The Clowns" was awful"

Mmmm, who cares about the other 200 times she performed the song to paying audiences at the Walter Kerr. That single out-of-context, sickly performance is enough to banish her in a fiery hell! That'll teach her for winning a Tony. If she had any kind of class, she'd have rejected it and thrown it at Montego Glover.

Updated On: 6/14/10 at 11:29 PM

[TalkinLoud]

Posted: 6/14/10 at 11:31pm

Yeah, Montego Glover should have won because she would have stayed in the press room.

Because that's what matters when naming the best performance of the year, right?

[nealb1]

Posted: 6/14/10 at 11:35pm

Well said, ljay889

[Marquise]

Posted: 6/15/10 at 12:56am

Maybe they had to make a mad dash to the ladies room to re-apply. No biggie.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 6/15/10 at 2:07am

People Magazine says she did a full hour of press. http://tinyurl.com/2bqpnnm

Although they don't say whether it was before or after the show. But she was sick. I'm with ljay, give her a break.

She's fantastic in ALNM and it seems like a lot of people are being pissy because she's an A-list celebrity who also happened to win a Tony last night. If Sherie wasn't going to take it, CZJ deserved it, hands down. It's not like she was horrible in the show. Not even close. If she was an A-lister who didn't deserve the award (whether she was bad or missed a lot of performances or what have you), I wouldn't mind everyone coming down hard on her but she is giving a sensational performance in NIGHT MUSIC and has been sick for quite a while. Cut her some slack.
Updated On: 6/15/10 at 02:07 AM

[ljay889]

Posted: 6/15/10 at 2:09am

Totally agree, Rocks. Very well said.

[Mildred Plotka]

Posted: 6/15/10 at 3:20am

They obviously skipped the press line because they are RACIST!

[Piper3500]

Posted: 6/15/10 at 9:36am

"This is why Hollywood actors should stay in Hollywood! CZJ performance of "Send In The Clowns" was awful, I assume that why she left when she did! "

orly? many "Hollywood" actors started on stage or learned on stage. They are actors, period. and I for one, am glad people get to see another facet of them when they do Broadway. I don't know why SJ left the way she did, but CZJ did do press. Gary Sinese is an example of a theatre guy who also happened to make it in the movies, but he still runs a theatre in Chicago. I am pretty sure Viola had also done stage before (if i am wrong sorry, but it really doesn't matter) This reminds me of the old digs about television and movie actors. It is just ridiculous.

[Patash]

Posted: 6/15/10 at 9:45am

People who declare that Hollywood actors are "bad" or not deserving of appearing on Broadway are just as pathetic as those souls who claim that Broadway actors are only there because they aren't "good enough" to do films.
Hogwash in both cases.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 6/15/10 at 9:54am

Amen.

And I understand, to a certain extent, why a lot of avid theatergoers are upset about so many Hollywood celebrities coming to Broadway...it is a little unnerving to see so many celebrities basically get asked to do a Broadway show when most people have to work their whole lives to build up to even be in the chorus of a Broadway show. But, I have to say this, if it means for every bad/mediocre celebrity performance, there will be a performance like Ms. Zeta-Jones', Ms. Davis', and Mr. Schrieber's, then I say bring it on.

[Piper3500]

Posted: 6/15/10 at 9:54am

^ absolutely Patash.

I believe in the lyric "if I can make it there...." For anyone to get up on the stage and not be able to do "take 2, 3, 4" to get through it is far different. I don't think Hollyood actors should be shunned from the theatre or vise versa. You see so many actors biography and you see them on a stage.

[CSonBroadway]

Posted: 6/15/10 at 9:57am

This thread is so homophobic.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 6/15/10 at 10:03am

My favorite part:

...then made a dash for the elevator with her Tony trophy clutched firmly in hand.

Because the other Tony winners all just left their awards lying around? Or perhaps it is customary to hold it with your teeth.

Good for them! I've a feeling others didn't stick around much for the press, either. Some do, some don't. Same as every year. But it's only news if it is Catherine and Scarlett because they are HOLLYWOOD and HOW DARE THEY do this to BROADWAY.

[Piper3500]

Posted: 6/15/10 at 10:05am

"it is a little unnerving to see so many celebrities basically get asked to do a Broadway show when most people have to work their whole lives to build up to even be in the chorus of a Broadway show"

all actors have to work their asses off to get a break. there are few like John Barrowman who got a lead right away in the West End or a Hollywood female actor who got discovered at a drugstore soda fountain counter. There are Hollywood actors who yearn to do Broadway and vise versa. In Hollywood or any city to try to break in to tv/movies there is a not schlepping, acting classes, being an extra. It may be a different process but all actors work hard, regardless of vocation they are going for.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 6/15/10 at 10:25am

it is a little unnerving to see so many celebrities basically get asked to do a Broadway show when most people have to work their whole lives to build up to even be in the chorus of a Broadway show

I hate to break this to you, but many Broadway stars basically get asked to do shows as well. Some of them work a lifetime to get a chorus gig. Others break into Broadway within a year (I actually know an example). Those are the breaks. If Broadway should be prejudiced against film and television actors, then they should be prepared to go bankrupt.

[Piper3500]

Posted: 6/15/10 at 10:35am

^there are several

Wesley Taylor, Krysta Rodgriguez,

anyway...most do have to work so so so hard. The difference between and understudy and the star is sometimes...a big break.

anyway, all genres of acting are hard work. there are tv actors who do stratford shakespeare in the park on hiatus for their love of it. i usually agree with ROCKS, but not on this

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 6/15/10 at 10:56am

This whole 'Hollywood' backlash is actually stunning to me. I'm not so surprised to see it here...but when I see pointed to nasty posts made on Facebook by actors who work regularly in the business, I'm gobsmacked. Really? You're gonna put your name to that? I mean, it's fun to go after sacred cows sometimes, but the stuff I was reading was really shocking.

[Edna Turnblad]

Posted: 6/15/10 at 10:56am

I don't see the issue with this. I'll say that Catherine Zeta-Jones left because she was sick and wanted to be able to perform today, so she left after she had done quite a bit of press the weeks coming up to Sunday. I don't know why Scarlett Johansson left, but it's fine. Some people just don't want to do any more press.
And, this is kind of a different kind of story, but Daisy Eagan, after winning Best Featured Actress in a Musical, didn't do press because she didn't want to.
I can't remember where I heard the story, but she said she just didn't want to, or think she had too, or something like that. I liked the story.
Anyway...back on topic starting NOW!

[James885]

Posted: 6/15/10 at 12:22pm

If Broadway should be prejudiced against film and television actors, then they should be prepared to go bankrupt.

Amen. Like I said in another thread, this whole backlash against Hollywood actors is very amusing to me because most of the people doing the complaining would have no problem if their favorite Broadway actor/actress did a film and won an Oscar. But if someone more known for film and TV does a musical or play, there are cries of "How DARE he/she tread upon the sacred soil that is Broadway??" or "so-and-so needs to stick to Hollywood and stop ruining our shows!". Actors are actors, whether they're on Broadway, in Los Angeles, or wherever.

[Kad]

Posted: 6/15/10 at 12:51pm

...and many of the nominated "Hollywood" actors this year were, indeed, giving the best performances.

And people are also very quick to forget that many of the nominated actors this year had their roots in theatre. Christopher Walken was a chorus boy, for god's sake.

[allofmylife]

Posted: 6/15/10 at 12:57pm

This is such a BS thread.

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 6/15/10 at 1:06pm

Scarlett probably left because Ryan was in town. If I had a choice between doing Tony press or being home on top of Ryan..I'd pick the latter any day.