Our out-going Best Actress has hit the Manhattan pavement, promoting A Doll’s House on Broadway, which opens next month, but is in previews as of next Monday. Gotta get out there and drum up some eyeballs for Ibsen! (Eyeballs for Ibsen was the title of my unsuccessful and much-maligned master’s thesis.) (I do wonder if she’s going to miss the Oscars, since there will be overlap there.) Anyway, nothing says “I’m a serious thespian” like (a) velvet and (b) turtlenecks.

'The View' TV show, New York, USA - 03 Feb 2023

I jest, but I also think she looks great. Why don’t I have a plum-colored velvet trench dress? Other than not being a serious thespian.

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