The Academy was totally cool when Seth MacFarlane sang a song about boobs that deserves it’s own tidy corner in Hell a few years ago, but they were decidedly unchill about boobs IRL a few days ago at the 2016 ceremony.
The LA Times reported as a part of their summary of the night:
“But for the nominees, as always, the evening came down less to the sweeping issues facing the entire industry and more to smaller, more personal moments of drama.
At one point, Tom Hardy, a supporting actor nominee for ‘The Revenant,’ was spotted pacing around the lobby, looking anxious.
Asked if his nerves had something to do with ‘The Revenant’s’ Oscar prospects, the British actor, who recently became a father for the second time, said no.
‘I’m just waiting for my wife to finish breast pumping in the bathroom,” Hardy said wryly. ‘She has to do it every hour.’”
Except, of course, this isn’t really a “personal moment of drama”—or if it is, it’s a microcosmic example of, as Josh Rottenberg put it, actually one of the “sweeping issues facing the entire industry.”