Ricky Gervais and David Oyelowo at HBO Golden Globes After Party 2016 (all photo credit: Filmmagic)
Once again the premium ticket after the Golden Globes award show was the HBO after party, where reportedly 1200 stars, artists, producers and executives mingled and touted the evenings results as guests, nominees and winners headed downstairs from the banquet room where the awards show is televised at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles to the lower level where multiple parties happen back to back under the highest security. Entrée to each party is of course an exclusive ticket. The HBO party took over the famed Trader Vics, patio and pool outside with a tented dance floor and DJs spinning records all night.
Oscar Issac wins best actor for HBO's Show Me A Hero
Oscar Isaac was there with his Golden Globe win for actor in a limited series for HBO's Show Me a Hero, HBO's win of the night. John Hamm, Harrison Ford, Rachel McAdams, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Julia Louis Dreyfus, Bryan Cranston and Larry David were there to name a few.
Jon Hamm and Matt Walsh of Veep
Ricky Gervais tore up the stage by pulling everyone's pants down with his verbally pranking style. As he said on stage with a shrug after several of his most cutting jokes: "I just don't care." But his irascible manner calls back a time when the Golden Globes was less politically correct and had more the energy of a private party where folks let off steam before everyone acted properly for the academy awards.
Ricky Gervais and Sean Bean
Sean Bean, who anchored the first season of Game Of Thrones, told me how how he's "been looking for Harrison Ford ever since he hit him in the face in Patriot Games." Of course Harrison Ford was four feet away with Calista Flockart talking to Robe Lowe and Amanda Peet, but how great that Sean Bean is the only person in the world who can make that joke.
Harrison Ford and Christina Flockhart
I asked Sean about his performance in the Martian, a winner that night with Best Actor in a Comedy for Matt Damon, and Best Picture for Ridley Scott and his team. Sean played "Mitch Henderson" one of NASA's top decision makers, in a scene where NASA determined how to rescue Damon's character with a gravity assist around the Earth. The secret math formulas had been code named: ELROND. "What's Elrond?" Christen Wiig's character asks the others in the room. "A secret meeting," replies Sean's character. Of course Sean Bean played Boromir in Lord Of The Rings, and was at the secret meeting in Lord of the Rings at Elrond's home where the fellowship devises the plan to drop the ring into Mount Doom. Sean laughed when I asked him if they wrote the line for him, or if it was originally in the script. "That line was there when I got the script, and I looked at it and wondered - how am I going to play that? Because - I was there... it's a secret meeting..." he said almost quizzically, and then smiled. "Really, how am I supposed to say that?" A great reminder of how many terrific parts he's played.
Emilia Clarke and writer of Game of Thrones David Benioff
Game of Thrones was not a winner that night, but Emilia Clarke, who brings Daneris to life, was there, her true long