Oscars 2023: With the Oscars 2023 only a day ahead on March 12, actor Harsh Varrdhan Kapoor is worried that Cate Blanchett may not win the award for best actor this year. In a tweet about this year’s ‘best actress’ nominees, Kapoor said that he was ‘having nightmares’ because of the possibility of Cate Blanchett losing out to Michelle Yeoh. He is apprehensive that Michelle Yeoh may win because of a ‘PR campaign’.
The tweet has not gone down well with a section of twitter users, who called him out for targeting and undermining one performance over the other. The actor then responded to some of the negative reactions to his remark.
Harsh Varrdhan Kapoor’s tweet
Harsh Varrdhan Kapoor tweeted, “I’m getting nightmares about Cate Blanchett losing to Michelle Yeoh at the Oscar’s… how can a PR campaign centred around race put one of the best performances of all time in the shadows? Any opinions guys.”
Both actors are in the race for the best Actor category (female). Cate Blanchett’s is nominated for her performance in Tár and Michelle Yeoh’s for Everything Everywhere All At Once.
Michelle recently won at the Screen Actors Guild Awards and many are predicting her to win the Oscars over Cate on March 12. Michelle’s win would also make her the first Asian actor to have won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role category.
Twitter users react
Kapoor’s tweet didn’t sit well with a section of Twitter users, who then went ahead and tweeted against him. Kapoor also responded to some of them. One user wrote, “Its okay to love an actor’s performance over another, but to downplay another actor’s performance as a PR campaign is so disingenuous. Like you really have to be biased to think michelle yeoh’s performance isn’t great, if not one of the greatest of all times.” To this, Harsh responded, “She’s clearly trying to use it and do everything she can to edge forward in the race and not let it be only about the merit of the performance…”
One user wrote, “I eat, sleep and breathe Bollywood. Half of my pop culture knowledge is defined by it. Focus on the colourism/racism of your industry instead of downplaying a veteran asian actress’ achievements. It’s not cute. And I bet you your dad and sister won’t like it either.” To this, Harsh Varrdhan Kapoor replied,”If my opinion doesn’t matter why are you responding to my tweet ? Yeoh on her instagram posted an article about how she should win because of diversity when cate has publicly been so supportive of her… really a low blow I felt . She later deleted it after the backlash.”
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