Gleeks & Madonna collaborator rule the 2012 Costume Designers Guild Awards
18.05.12
— In attendance to pay tribute to their costume designers. Marcia Gay Harden and Ken Watanabe presented creative partners Clint Eastwood and costume designer Deborah Hopper with the “Distinguished Collaborator” award for their 28-year, 20-film working relationship.
Actress Kate Beckinsale rounded out the evening with a gracious and witty acceptance of the Lacoste Spotlight Award for her versatility in costumed roles. “I was a bit puzzled over exactly why I was receiving it and what I could possibly have done to deserve it,” Beckinsale acknowledged at the podium, deferring to being lucky to have mentored as an actress beginning at 17 in the hands of the Oscar-winning Phyllis Dalton to, more recently, Monique Prudhomme.
From Shakespearian ingenue to Ava Gardner to “bizarrely, a machine-gun-wilding vampire,” Beckinsale self-deprecatingly quipped, “I have rarely encountered a problem that could not somehow be solved with a visit to the wardrobe trailer. Whether it’s an unexpected pregnancy, a divorce, a stubborn camel-toe, you guys have it covered. I’ve had all of those!”
Source: National Post