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For the third time this award season, Past Lives actor Greta Lee has opted to wear a Loewe creation making her easily one of the most interesting to look at on the consecutive red carpets. There was Lee’s lemon-hued biomaterial backless gown at the Golden Globes, her matching button-up loose knit top and high-waisted wide-leg trousers at The Critics Choice Awards, and her monochrome backless gown (seen on the luxury house’s Fall/Winter 2024 runway just 10 days ago) at today’s Oscars.
Lee teamed the gown with Tiffany & Co. earrings in platinum with diamonds, a Tiffany Archives bracelet with diamonds and emeralds, and a ring in platinum with green tourmaline.
Indeed, no one does the ‘runway to realway’ sell quite like Lee. Take a look.
Lee wasn’t actually the first choice to play Nora in Korean-Canadian-American playwright Celine Song’s stirring and heartbreaking debut film Past Lives, a wistful what-if tale about two ex-lovers who could have been together had it not been for geography.
“I was slowly, completely gobsmacked by what I was reading,” Lee, 40, recently told W Magazine recounting the first time she read the Past Lives script. “I cried a lot. Trying to read while crying is physiologically very challenging!”
“And then I auditioned and I didn’t get the job,” she continued. “It happens and sometimes it hurts more for certain things. A full year later, I got a crazy phone call: ‘Are you available to meet with Celine Song?’ I had blocked it out of my mind, it was a certain type of heartbreak, you don’t want to think about the guy who dumped you!”
Upon meeting Song about her “soulmate script”, however, Lee says the pair “fell in love with each other that day.”
Song’s great ability to move her audience through the modesty of humanity and the universal feeling of yearning for something that could have been, has seen the film garner an Oscar nomination for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay—a feat for a first time filmmaker.
