Oscar-nominated Hamnet actress Jessie Buckley has admitted she finds awards show “scary” admitting she struggles to switch between her role as a mother changing her baby’s diapers and glamming up for the red carpet.
Hamnet star Jessie Buckley finds awards show “scary”.
The 36-year-old screen star won the Best Leading Actress prize for her role in Hamnet at the BAFTA Film Awards in London on Sunday (22.02.26) and she’s competing for the top acting gong at the upcoming Academy Awards next month – but Jessie has confessed she finds it a struggle to switch between her role as a mother changing her baby’s diapers and glamming up for the red carpet.
During an appearance on The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, she explained: “I have very different moments at different times. Sometimes you can’t take it in. Sometimes you’re just changing a nappy, and you’re really grateful for that nappy, like: ‘I’m a real person, I’m a real person!’
“And then you have moments where you’re like: ‘What?! This doesn’t happen in a life.’
“I had that moment yesterday at the Oscar Nominees Luncheon, when everybody was getting up on that stage to be in the class photograph. There was something so innocent about it, but also, I’m there with Paul Thomas Anderson and Chloe and Delroy Lindo, these incredible artists.
“In my wildest imagination when I was a young woman, I never thought I would be remotely near that. “
She went on to add: “And yes, the Critics Choice and Golden Globes, they’re scary: People spend two hours after you’ve changed a nappy trying to make you look great, when you feel like: ‘I wish the ground would swallow me up’ or ‘How am I meant to be in these rooms? I shouldn’t be here.’
“But then you get into these rooms and you know that everybody’s just made something, and to make anything at all is an absolute triumph.
“I’m so proud and honored to stand beside these incredible artists who have inspired me throughout my life in ways that I don’t think I have the vocabulary or the ability to tell them.
“This is like a moment in time, and I’ll move on, and I’ll make more things. We only get one life. And I think when I look back I will go: ‘Oh my God!'”
Jessie became a first-time mother last year when she welcomed her first child – a daughter – with her husband Freddie Sorensen and she recently confessed it took her a long time to find the right relationship.
She told Deadline.com: “I think love is terrifying. I have been scared of love for a lot of my life, and it took me a long while to discover what that word even meant for me, not just the idea of it.
“I think sometimes love at first sight, it’s too much of a projected idea for it to … I think it takes … You can’t just make a meal. You have to cook it.”
When asked if she believes in “love at first sight”, Jessie replied: “Yeah, I do. I think it’s not what I ever expect it to be. The real stuff is not ever what I expect it to be.
“So even that magnetism might transcend or transform into a very different, layered, complex, full thing. And I guess that depends on where you are in your life and how open you are to that.”
Hamnet star Jessie Buckley finds awards shows ‘scary’
