Come Sunday night, the handful of actors who’ve been nominated for Oscars will wrap up a long season of answering the same questions over and over and over again. During the past two months the nominees have made countless appearances on late-night couches and morning talk shows, where they’ve been bombarded with the same prompts: No one can get through an interview with Best Actress nominee Rooney Mara without asking her about her family’s football roots, everyone wants to know about Viola Davis’s stay at George Clooney’s villa, and Clooney himself is constantly asked to talk trash about Brad Pitt, so much so that Clooney repeats his jokes on the topic during interviews verbatim. Check it out.
