RICHARD E. GRANT

says he is not upset at missing out on the best supporting actor oscar.

‘It didn’t feel like a lose situation to me,’ the can You ever Forgive Me? star says, ‘because the other nominees, all of us knew at least a month in advance — it was practically carved in stone — that [Green book’s] Mahershala Ali was going to win.

‘so essentially none of us had to prepare a speech and enjoyed it for the ride of it. People wanted us to be wallowing in a state of bittery, but that’s not what it felt like. Maybe I should have sat there with a face like a slapped a**e, but that’s not how it felt.’