Dolly de Leon: ‘We all feel like a winner’
Dolly de Leon recently reunited with her Triangle of Sadness costars and director Ruben Ostlund at the 95th Academy Awards or the Oscars on Sunday night (early Monday morning in Manila).
The Cannes Palme d’Or-winning social class satire received Oscar nominations for Best Film, as well as Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for its Swedish filmmaker.
While the film didn’t score any award, Dolly said they all felt like a winner when asked prior to the awards ceremony about her first Oscars experience.
“We all feel like a winner. Just the fact that we are here today, we are already winners. I really feel we all rose up, we’re all there, we’re all victorious. This is exciting,” she said when asked how it felt to be attending this year’s Oscars during a redcarpet interview with US media E! News.
As she previously hinted to this paper, she was attending Hollywood’s biggest night in trousers. After a dominatrix-inspired gown – AFP PHOTO at the Golden Globe Awards and a sea goddess-look for at the British Academy Film Awards or BAFTAs (she was the first Filipino to be nominated at both award-giving events), Dolly ended her historic Hollywood awards season journey with a power suit.
The black suit with a doublebreasted jacket embellished with a latex flower pin came from the Philosophy di Lorenzo Serafini Pre-Fall 2023 collection, as revealed by her US-based Filipino stylist LJ Perez on social media.
Alongside Hollywood celebrities Cate Blanchett and Guillermo del Toro, Dolly also wore the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR’s #WithRefugees blue ribbon in solidarity with people forced to flee. A small but significant detail of her overall outfit was her late mom’s heirloom ring.
Meanwhile, the veteran actress is set to begin filming two Hollywood films — an action-comedy directed by Paul Feig (Bridesmaids, Ghostbusters) and another comedy where she plays the stepmother of actor Jason Schwartzman (The Darjeeling Limited, The Grand Budapest Hotel).