Despite the 50th anniversary of The Sound of Music, Christopher Plummer didn’t want to go to the Oscars to see Lady Gaga’s live tribute.
Plummer, who played Julie Andrews’ Maria’s love interest, Captain Von Trapp, said he didn’t want to take the spotlight away from Andrews.
“I couldn't be there for personal reasons, and secondly I didn't want to," he told People.
"It was really a tribute to Julie. It's her movie. It's a terrible phrase we have in England but if I had appeared there I would have looked like a spare prick at a wedding,” he said. “That's the most perfect description of how I would have looked."
Although he wasn’t there to see it in person, the 85-year-old actor said he did watch from home and he was just as blown away by Lady Gaga’s performance as we were.
He said the pop star she sang the tribute “absolutely wonderfully,” praising her for being able to showcase “two styles” – the “old way” and the “new way.”
He was thrilled that she was “so faithful to the style of the story and the song.”
Plummer also said of his co-star, Andrews, that she looked “terrific.”
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