{"id":441022,"date":"2026-02-23T09:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T09:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/441022\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T09:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T09:52:08","slug":"six-backstage-highlights-from-the-bafta-film-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/441022\/","title":{"rendered":"Six backstage highlights from the Bafta Film Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It wasn&#8217;t just Hollywood royalty at Sunday night&#8217;s event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Prince and Princess of Wales also made an appearance, walking the red carpet before attending the ceremony, in their first public appearance since Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor&#8217;s arrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prince William is the president of Bafta and also gave a speech on the night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Before the awards began, Prince William and Catherine gave an insight into the films they&#8217;ve been watching as they chatted behind the scenes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prince William said the F1 movie was &#8220;fantastic&#8221;, &#8220;mainly because of the music&#8221; which was created by Hans Zimmer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He admitted he hasn&#8217;t watched Sinners yet, but said it&#8217;s a &#8220;bit dark&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has seen One Battle After Another, and said he &#8220;was not expecting it to start the way it did&#8221;, describing it as &#8220;weird&#8221; but good.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As for Hamnet, he said he needs to be in a &#8220;calm state&#8221; to watch it, adding: &#8220;I&#8217;m not at the moment&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Catherine, wearing a pink and white gown with a burgundy velvet belt which matched William&#8217;s suit jacket, said she saw the Shakespeare drama on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But she admitted the pair still have &#8220;a long list of films&#8221; they haven&#8217;t seen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Hopefully this will help,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It wasn&#8217;t just Hollywood royalty at Sunday night&#8217;s event. The Prince and Princess of Wales also made an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-441022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}