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Why Steven Spielberg Refuses to Read Oscars Winners’ Names at Rehearsal


Steven Spielberg has superstitious tendencies when it comes to the Oscars

During the 96th annual Academy Awards’ rehearsal on Saturday, March 9, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, Spielberg, 77, refused to name the pretend winner inside his envelope. Steven SpielbergAndreas Rentz/Getty ImagesMaestro follows the complicated relationship between Leonard Bernstein, a famous American composer and his wife, Felicia Montealegre(Mulligan). If he’s going to the bathroom at this point in the movie … and he gets up, he walks over, and I’m putting my head down and the next thing I know I feel his face here and he says, because it’s loud, ‘You’re f—ing directing Maestro!”

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