Breaking Baz: Partying On Down With Snoop Dogg, Robert Downey Jr, Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh, Cillian Murphy & The ‘Oppenheimer’ Gang At The Universal Filmed Entertainment Group Soiree
13.01.2024 - 21:25
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Albert Einstein had his theory of relativity, and Breaking Baz has his theory of party lift-off.
Friday night at the Universal filmed entertainment soiree, the moment of fusion came when Snoop Dogg hit the room at the Sunset Tower and was immediately embraced by Oppenheimer stars Emily Blunt and Florence Pugh.
No wait. Surely, it was when Blunt took Robert Downey Jr. in her arms and a giddy little waltz ensued.
Maybe the right molecular vibe kicked in when Oppenheimer director Christopher Nolan arrived with Emma Thomas, its producer, and they fell into a lively conversation with Cillian Murphy and Downey Jr.
Perhaps it was when Colman Domingo sauntered in, resplendent in red. He stars in Netflix movie Rustin and WB’s The Color Purple, neither of them linked to Universal. Didn’t matter a jot. The warmth of the welcome for him was palpable. “I’m happy to be here,” he told me. I should’ve introduced him to Oppenheimer costume designer Ellen Mirojnick, who looked pretty in pink.
“It’s just a lovely party,” Blunt enthused as she and Pugh exclaimed over the bustier’s they were wearing. Not sure that actor and filmmaker Alex Wolff and I should’ve been observing this, but, well, whatever. One goes with the flow when a party is fully in swing.
More often than not, you can have a gathering of the best people at an event and it can fall flat. Deadly dull. Not this one.
It’s the end of a long week, it’s Friday night and people are in the right mood to let their hair down, theorized Daniel Pemberton, the British composer for Slow Horses and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.
I heard someone suggest to Donna Langley, Chairman of Universal Pictures and Universal Filmed Entertainment Group and Chief Content Officer, that this is