The Walking Dead’s Samantha Morton reveals she was refused entry to the Oscars despite being a nominee
WALKING DEAD star Samantha Moron has revealed she was refused entry to the Oscars – despite being a nominee.
The actress admitted she had lost her ticket to the iconic awards ceremony and wasn’t allowed in.
Samantha, 43, also divulged her fears over what effects Covid-19 will have on the film industry and how she hasn’t been able to work since it happened.
Speaking on FUBAR Radio, the Golden Globe award-winning actress made the confession about losing her ticket for the Oscars.
The Fantastic Beasts actress said: “I couldn’t get into the Oscars even though I was nominated because I’d lost my ticket.”
She continued: “You know when you’re a girl and you’ve got your handbag and I’d got my lippy and whatever.”
Samantha has been playing Alpha in The Walking Dead[/caption]“I was breastfeeding my daughter at the time and was sharing a caravan with Brad Pitt and Erykah Badu,” she went on dropping a few names, “because I needed somewhere private to feed her, and I lost my ticket!…it was a faff getting in!”
Samantha went on to speak about the issues the film industry is facing at the moment and revealed the pandemic has stopped her and many others from working.
“I’m literally s******g myself because I don’t totally trust the government with what they are doing, this, that and the next thing,” she said.
The star is worried about the future of the film industry[/caption] She revealed the pandemic has stopped her from working[/caption]Most read in Drama
“You know you have to trust the science I suppose and you have to pray to God you don’t get it.
“Some productions have got a lot of money so they can test people constantly and do little bubbles and quarantining vibes…most of the things that I work on or have worked on, they don’t have that kind of money.
“We’re already struggling with kind of genuinely working-class voices out there…being female as well, really struggling with trying to get things from the development stage into production…moving forward, all that is just going to take a massive knock I think. ”