Andy's circus

Rooney Mara and Demian Bichir meet backstage. Andy Serkis wows the Virtuosos Award Tribute audience. Producer Jim Burke and Actress Shailene WoodleyTake two nervous gals, one Latin hottie, a chubby funnyman, a shirtless question together with military services weapons Oscar nominee and whomever else got? This is actually the assemblage the Santa Barbara Film Fest anointed utilizing their Virtuosos Award on Friday within the Arlington Theater. More than a thousand fans of Rooney Mara, Shailene Woodley, Demian Bichir, Patton Oswalt, Andy Serkis and Melissa McCarthy jammed the venue for any evening of conversation while using six rising stars, simply to uncover that McCarthy will be a no-show, the victim of laryngitis.Bichir introduced the talks, trading his "A Far Greater Existence" perf to "my Mexican paisanos, the 11 million individuals who help this community proceed with pride and.InchMara quietly whispered to the mic they is "a workaholic, and eager revisit work" round the two sequels to "The Woman While using Dragon Tattoo." Oswalt cracked jokes about his sex moments with Charlize Theron, while Serkis did a shirtless chimpanzee imitation. "Acting with motion capture is just the identical whatsoever from acting with makeup on," he was adament. "It's simply yet another way of recording an actor's performance."Woodley found the final outcome the talks. "My movie vocabulary stretches to 'The Goonies' and 'Dirty Dancing.' That's it. And this has all been pretty intimidating," she mentioned in the honours swirl. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com