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Breaking Baz BAFTA Film Awards Parties Special: Dominic Sessa Wins First Movie Role After ‘The Holdovers’ Breakout; Bob Geldof Wants Live Aid Musical In Andrew Lloyd Webber Theatre; Florence Pugh At Universal ‘Oppenheimer’ Celebration


Inside the BAFTA Film Awards Parties with Dominic Sessa and Florence Pugh.

Earlier, on the rain-drenched red carpet — even though it was under a sprawling, hellishly airless marquee — Sessa told me that he finds all the awards hoopla “a bit weird in some ways” but holds out hope that “maybe it gets easier as you keep coming back.” He adds: “For me, I have no expectations about it. I spoke to many more people, then figured, having been on the South Bank estate for over ten hours, the BAFTA after-party wasn’t for me; it was time to hightail it over to the Searchlight Pictures (thank you to their executives for ferrying me across the Thames) party over at Soho House. Over in a quiet bit of space stood Barry Jenkins, in town for a few days to add some music to the Disney live-action Mufasa: The Lion King, at both Abbey Road and Air Studios in north London.

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