Curious Georgina

Georgina Chapman
I first clocked Chapman’s attempts at a full-blown comeback in January 2024, at the Emmys, where she dressed British actress Hannah Waddingham and television personality Padma Lakshmi. Photo: Lexie Moreland/WWD via Getty Images
Lauren Sherman
March 6, 2025

On Sunday night, as Adrien Brody ascended the stage of the Dolby Theater to accept the best actor Oscar for his role in The Brutalist, he extracted a piece of gum out of his mouth and tossed it to his girlfriend, the fashion designer Georgina Chapman. It’s unclear whether this disgusting gesture was a planned bit, or a nervous reaction to his anticipated win. (Brody went on to insufferably ramble for more than five minutes, breaking the record for the longest Oscars speech in history.) Anyway, I found the gesture tacky, obviously, but also curiously insulting to Chapman, especially given her complex history as a plus-one. The strangest thing to me about Brody’s relationship with Chapman, whose ex-husband is the convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein, is that they both are products of the Miramax machine. You have to wonder whether the relationship is a trauma bond.

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