A viral TikTok is a pitch-perfect parody of both the types of films Hollywood honors each awards season and the seriousness with which it goes about honoring them.
The idea for the skit came to him and his sister on Friday evening as they were talking about the upcoming Academy Awards. She grabbed a phone as they improvised both actor names and film genres, filming each scene in no more than two takes. Sewell denied he had any specific actors in mind when he envisaged each performer, but rather different “actress archetypes.”
First up, there’s Paloma Diamond, a veteran actor who Sewell imagined is most likely nominated every year and is feeling cocky. The fake movie,to him like it would be nominated for a ton of Oscars. “Obviously, she’s got a bit of an ego,” Sewell said of Diamond, who appeared to be something of a fan favorite among viewers online thanks to her self-assured confidence. “People can root for whoever they want to root for, but that’s my interpretation about it. She’s quite smug about it, but maybe it’s just because she hasn’t won and sheSecond, there’s Lorelai Lynch, who is up for, Sewell imagined, a Holocaust film that required an Eastern European accent.
— a film that is so ingeniously named by Sewell that many Oscar viewers joked that they were surprised it didn’t walk away with a win or two on Sunday night.
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