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It’s been 10 years since Ellen Degeneres broke X (then nonetheless Twitter) by posting an immediately iconic selfie filled with A-Listing actors through the 2014 Oscars telecast.
Degeneres managed to squeeze Meryl Streep, Bradley Cooper, Jared Leto, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Jennifer Lawrence, Kevin Spacey, Lupita Nyong’o and Channing Tatum into the body.
Revisiting this second, and the well-known faces in it, is a time capsule. A few of these photographed have been working steadily ever since. For others – like Spacey, who was fired from “Home of Playing cards” in 2018 amid the #MeToo motion after going through sexual misconduct allegations – issues have definitely modified.
Cooper, for one, has change into an Oscar-mainstay since his 2014 supporting actor nomination for “American Hustle.” A decade later, he has earned double-digit Oscar nominations and can return to subsequent week’s Academy Awards as a nominee for “Maestro” – a movie he directed, produced and stars in.
Lawrence was additionally a nominee for her efficiency in “American Hustle.” She went on to earn one other Oscar nod the next 12 months for her efficiency in “Pleasure” and has appeared in a movie yearly since. She additionally became a mom alongside the best way.
Leto gained an Oscar that 12 months for “Dallas Consumers Membership,” as did Nyong’o for “12 Years a Slave.” Leto has since toggled between roles in numerous blockbuster motion pictures, the 2022 mini-series “WeCrashed” and has caught together with his rock band 30 Seconds to Mars.
Degeneres on the time was nonetheless internet hosting her long-running daytime speak present “The Ellen Degeneres Present,” which aired its ultimate episode in 2022 after 19 years.
Jolie and Pitt on the time of the selfie had been nonetheless a pair. They bought married that very same 12 months in an intimate ceremony at their chateau in France however have since divorced and are within the midst of varied legal battles. Pitt gained a supporting actor Oscar in 2020 for “As soon as Upon a Time in Hollywood.”
In 2014, Meryl Streep had damaged her personal file when she earned her 18th Oscar nomination for “August: Osage County.” It’s a file that turned Degeneres’s bargaining chip when she approached Streep to assist her “break one other file” for essentially the most retweets, sparked by the epic selfie.
Streep lost out to Cate Blanchett that 12 months however the selfie wound up producing 2.7 million retweets and two million likes, and it stays one of popular culture’s starriest photographs to this point.