Academy Award

PATRICIA ARQUETTE HAD WON THE ACADEMY AWARD FOR HER ROLE IN RICHARD LINKLATER'S BOYHOOD (2014)

Actor Patricia Arquette has said she nearly fainted after winning the Best Actress Oscar in 2015. She had won the Academy Award for her role in Richard Linklater’s Boyhood (2014), and gave a fiery speech calling for gender equality. Arquette has revealed that she felt nauseated the entire time she was on stage addressing the audience. “It was terrifying, the whole thing. I wanted to vomit the whole time because I knew that I was going to be saying this thing, and I felt like I was on a drug,” she told Total Film magazine.

“I think the flood of adrenaline... I almost passed out and I was shaking backstage. So I’m not going to say it was a pleasant sensation,” she said.

The Escape at Dannemora star also said being in the running for awards was a weird and exhausting process. “It was really the weirdest thing in the world.

I mean, it’s like a gauntlet. It really is like a strategy. There are all these different people, who work for different films, and there are certain parties they send you to, and other things you have to go to,” the actor recalled.

“But it’s endless. By the end, I was like, ‘I just want to lay down and cry.

I don’t know what’s going on any more. I’m so confused’,” she said. But for Arquette, winning accolades is not the definition of having had a successful run in one’s career. “It was weird because people would look at you like suddenly you had a different value in their eyes. It’s like, ‘Whoa, people are weird, man’. I got offered some stuff [after the Oscar win]. I wouldn’t say it was terribly different from the stuff I’d been offered before. I didn’t think it made a gigantic difference in that way,” she said.

In 2016, the actor had also revealed that her Oscars equality speech cost her roles in Hollywood.