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Me and Roger Deakins: Now It Can Be Told

Me and Roger Deakins: Now It Can Be Told

"Thank you life, thank you love, it is true there is some angels in this city!"

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🎶 Deaks up when I step in the party! 🎶  Photo: Getty. Photo illustration: Me.

“In New York,” Carrie Bradshaw once opined, “You’re always looking for a job, a boyfriend, or an apartment.” In Los Angeles, you’re (well, I’m) always looking for Roger Deakins. Or a California Pizza Kitchen, because when am I not trying to run into Annette Bening. 

Many people are begging, pleading, clamoring to know what happened when I met Roger Deakins this past Saturday, considering he is my foremost (only) celebrity crush. (Me having a crush on Roger Deakins is well-documented; I was sitting at the Uncut Gems table at the National Board of Review awards in 2019 and the entire table clowned me when Deakins stepped onstage — a top five most embarrassing thing that has ever happened to me, but alas. I will always ride for my man!) This is an extremely detailed timeline of the night itself.

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