Good piece! Here are the sections that refer to Alicia:
1) BIFA and The Danish Girl London premiere
The Moet British Independent Film awards were held at Old Billingsgate and were a relaxed, informal affair despite the grand setting on the Thames. The stars mingled with us plebs and a tipsy time was had by many, though not me .......
Belle of the ball was Swedish actress Alicia Vikander . Guests gawped at her for various reasons: filmmakers because shes the actress of the moment with excellent turns in Ex Machina and The Danish Girl and is being nominated for all the precursor awards building up to the Oscars, women because they wanted to size up the lucky gal who had got Michael Fassbender And men, well, because. Some tried to hide it, pointing out that Fassbenders fit bird was good in that film before adding she had a lovely face.
It is indeed a lovely face. I saw it very close up at the The Danish Girl premiere a couple of days later. Close up she is straight up beautiful with gorgeous skin. Why Vogue went with their horrible styling for her first cover is a mystery. They took a fresh faced girl with silky hair and put her in an ugly wig and burnished her complexion to run with some silly point about her not looking very Swedish.
2) On the nonsense spread by gossip outlets
"Recently I went to a party where I met Sir Brian Leveson ,a former member of chambers. He, of course, presided over the Leveson enquiry into the practices of the press. He could do worse than a follow up examining the practices of the tabloids and gossip sites. Opening salvo: please explain a source.
Ah, a source. That prolific contributor to tabloid stories about the famous. He has unprecedented access to the most private moments of celebrities and is trusted by them to remain in the inner circle despite it being obvious that he betrays their trust at the drop of a hat always to the tackiest outlet.
Last year a tabloid claimed Fassbender and Vikander had split. No details. No facts. no background. Just the word of a source.
Like good sheep other entertainment outlets and bloggers repeated the story blindly.
Gossip used to be the staple of people who had contacts in the industry who leaked information to them. Now its mostly made up by 18 year old interns looking for internet hits. They will happily announce a split one week for a couple and the wedding the next without the hint of an apology to their readers in between.
I didnt believe the Fassbender/Vikander story at the time and as luck would have it, a very short time later I saw the couple on a night out, very much still together and loved up.
Since then even the slower media outlets have had to accept they remain a couple but nair an apology from any of them for the previous non story.
Sir Brian, if youve got some free time .."
That woman was desperate.
. “I’m going back and doing a French film,” she told a male acquaintance; had a moment with a female friend, whom she emotionally hugged; and spent a lengthy period of time talking to Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes.
