Adolescence star and co-creator Stephen Graham won a trophy at this year’s Golden Globes – but he also lost that same trophy not too long after the ceremony.
In a recent interview with the U.K. radio show Capital Breakfast, Graham told the story of how he lost his Golden Globe in the chaos that followed his Jan. 11 win for best actor in a limited series, anthology series or a motion picture made for television.
“I had to go straight from LA the day after to Madrid because I had to be on set the next day. It was weird, I had like three minutes to catch the plane,” Graham said. “It’s a next-level kind of thing. As I come off, a woman stood there with my name and she took me down the stairs, threw me in a car and drove me across the airport on the runway.”
The actor remembered being concerned that his suitcase – which had his Golden Globe inside of it – wasn’t going to make the plane.
“I went, ‘Excuse me, love? There’s no way you’re getting my suitcase on this plane if I’m in a car now,’ and she’s like, ‘Oh no, don’t worry, we’ll take care of it,"” Graham said. “And I was like, ‘No, no, no, no, you don’t understand,’ and she went, ‘I promise you, I promise you.’ Anyway, it didn’t land.”
Graham said his suitcase that contained Golden Globe was left in Atlanta. He put his trophy inside the suitcase because he found it too heavy.
“I wasn’t carrying that on me,” Graham said.
Luckily, the trophy wasn’t lost for long. Graham said he has since been reunited with his Golden Globe.
“But thankfully, thankfully, it turns up the day after. Two days after,” Graham said.
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