For the event — in which Amanda took home the Best Actress in a Movie/Miniseries trophy for The Dropout — the actor wore an archival Dior gown that was crafted from a single piece of gold lamé chiffon. That’s where the problems started.
“It keeps breaking. I’m not kidding, it keeps ripping. It’s actually like breaking,” Amanda said during a red carpet interview with Access Hollywood — and when she went onstage to accept her award during the ceremony, she appeared to be holding her dress together from the back.
When The Dropout won best Limited Series later on in the night, Amanda had donned a jacket onstage — suggesting that something went seriously wrong in the dress department.
In a new interview with People, Amanda revealed that the dress eventually fell apart entirely — and in front of a surprising person, too.
“My boobs fell out of my dress at the 2023 Critics Choice Awards,” she explained. “I was wearing this amazing vintage dress. I made my stylist dress up in it before I went just for fun. It was kind of sewn together and it started truly falling apart, literally falling off of me on the red carpet, and I think there were even interviews where I’m saying it’s breaking off.”
“I was talking to Glen Powell in the corner near my table, and we were joking around about something and I lifted my arms up, and my boobs were just out. My dress fell apart.”
Amanda says that her and Glen both “screamed” when it happened, but that he was quick to help cover her up and be polite about the whole endeavor.
“We both screamed, and like the gentleman he is, he covered me,” she said. “He didn’t look…I think. None of us were expecting that, but that dress had truly just given up.”
Amanda also confirmed that wearing the jacket onstage later on was a last-minute improvisational effort to cover up after the dress more or less gave out entirely.
“I ended up wearing someone else’s jacket on stage. Because, well, it would’ve just been my boobs.”
Here’s to quick thinking!