{"id":2364,"date":"2017-02-17T09:55:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T09:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/?p=2364"},"modified":"2017-02-17T09:55:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T09:55:00","slug":"bafta-red-carpet-cold-but-so-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/bafta-red-carpet-cold-but-so-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"BAFTA Red Carpet: Cold but So Happy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I never thought I would get a chance to see a red carpet ceremony. I mean, although I study at Regent campus and there are so many film premieres at Leicester Square, I never went to them because I have so\u00a0many classes. But this time it\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bafta.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BAFTA<\/a>, and the ceremony was actually on my birthday, so I did whatever I could\u00a0to get that precious wristband! One thing I couldn\u2019t understand is that some people queued for the wristband on Friday or even Thursday, but it wasn\u2019t handed out until Saturday morning. I really can\u2019t imagine how they survived the night. I just queued for about two hours in the morning and I couldn\u2019t feel my legs cause it\u00a0was way so\u00a0cold. You know how I always say that it&#8217;s raining\u00a0almost every time I go\u00a0to some big events, this time it was snowing! In London! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Getting the wristband was\u00a0just the beginning. The next day, Sunday, I needed to be there at noon to queue for entering, while the ceremony wouldn\u2019t begin until 4.30 pm. A lot of people went there much earlier than I did, but I just couldn\u2019t get up and make myself\u00a0stand outside\u00a0for six or seven hours. I still waited for hours to actually see a star I could recognize. That was amazing! There were lots of Harry Potter fans, more than you could imagine. Eddie Redmayne came quite early and he signed almost everyone, except me, because fans next to me begged him to take a photo with them. But that&#8217;s fine cause I haven&#8217;t actually watched or read any Harry Potter books or movies. \ud83d\ude42\u00a0I managed to\u00a0see all the actors and actresses I love and they were actually walking in front of me. I got the autograph of Luke Evans, Emily Blunt, Emma Stone, and Simon Pegg! That was a real surprise because I checked who would be attending the red carpet but his name wasn\u2019t on the list. And I also got one from Lin-Manuel Miranda &#8211; I couldn&#8217;t afford a\u00a0ticket to\u00a0Hamilton, but that doesn\u2019t matter because I met its creator! This is the best birthday I\u2019ve ever had! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 24px;color: #3d596d;font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 15px;font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-211\" src=\"https:\/\/cassiehuluwa.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/02\/img_4087.jpg?w=1536\" alt=\"BAFTA international student bloggers\" width=\"633\" height=\"844\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never thought I would get a chance to see a red carpet ceremony. I mean, although I study at Regent campus and there are so many film premieres at Leicester Square, I never went to them because I have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":2369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,14],"tags":[69,70,268,396,424,575],"class_list":["post-2364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-favourite-memories","category-london","tag-bafta","tag-bafta-ceremony","tag-films","tag-lalaland","tag-london","tag-red-carpet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}