Faye Dunaway Says She Hasn’t Gotten Over Her Oscar Flub: ‘I Feel Very Guilty’

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It’s been two months since Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty had a Bonnie and Clyde reunion on the Academy Awards stage, only to present the Best Picture winner to the wrong movie!

And like their epic characters on Bonnie and Clyde, the two actors took the brunt and went down together. But unlike Warren, who seems to have moved on, Faye still hasn’t gotten over it.

In a new interview with NBC’s Lester Holt, the actress said she felt “very guilty” about the incident, adding, “It’s a moment I still have not recovered from.”

In case you forgot, Warren was handed the wrong envelope and after glancing at it then he handing it to Faye, she announced the winner to be La La Land, when it was in fact Moonlight.

“We had planned to come on stage, do some banter, see the film clips, and then Warren was supposed to open the envelope and then for suspense, pass me the card to read the winner,” she said. “We’d rehearsed the whole thing.”

She continued: “Warren opened the envelope, took the card out, and didn’t speak. He looked around, looked over me, looked inside the envelope again hoping he would find another card there. Time is ticking by. He’s charming, he makes you wait, he’s just the best in all those ways. But the show is going late. I tried to tell him, come on and get on with it. And I read the name of the film on the card. And it was the wrong name… You don’t know what has happened. I was very guilty. I thought I could have done something, surely. Why didn’t I see Emma Stone’s name on the top of the card?”

But the pressure…

“Something about that moment, in front of the entire world, all those lights, all artistry — just combined to make us both not able to perform what normally one would perform,” she said. “Normally you’d say, ‘This is the wrong card.’ But it didn’t happen that way.”

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