Sometimes an Academy Award goes straight from the stage to somewhere even more glamorous: The bathroom.
As is the case for Emma Thompson, who won an Oscar for Best Actress in 1992 for Howards End and another three years later for helping write the screenplay for Sense and Sensibility.
But despite the status the trophies hold, keeping them in her restroom seemed like a very natural choice.
“They look far too outré anywhere else,” she told Time in 2006. “They’re great big, gold, shiny things. They’re up there tarnishing quietly along with everything else I own, including my body. It does give people the opportunity to pick them up and play with them in privacy rather than having to say, ‘Can I hold that?'”
As she noted, “You’d have to come to my house. There’s no posh space. Every space is kind of a family space. I’m surprised my daughter hasn’t used them for nefarious purposes actually. They’re heavy.”
So when her Last Christmas costar Henry Golding discovered the heavy metal, he just rolled with it.