Variety, Golden Globes’ Venice Party: Chase Stokes, Kelsea Ballerini

The celebs have been out in Venice for Selection and the Golden Globe Awards’ get together on Thursday evening, that includes Chase Stokes, Kelsea Ballerini, Lukas Gage and Pablo Larraín.

Offered by Iervolino and Girl Bacardi Leisure, the occasion celebrated breakthrough expertise and excellence in Italian filmmaking, handing out a number of awards beneath the moonlight. Stokes and Gage acquired breakthrough actor awards; Jack Huston and Alice Diop got breakthrough director awards; director Larraín was named the Venice Visionary; director Saverio Costanzo acquired the Italian Excellence award; and “Ferrari” producers Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi have been honored with the breakthrough producers award.

Stokes, who dropped into Venice from a trip on the Amalfi Coast with girlfriend and nation singer Ballerini, marveled on the honor in a crimson carpet interview with Selection.

“This journey has been such an unbelievable expertise but it surely’s been so quick, so to be in a state of affairs, to be honored and to be in a room with so many individuals that I like and aspire to be like and look as much as is a very, unbelievable factor,” Stokes mentioned. “I’m nonetheless simply type of pinching myself in all these moments.”

He additionally mentioned he’s “taking some pointers” from the boat drivers in Venice for his “Outer Banks” character John B. “I’m certain there’s some treasure right here in Venice,” he mentioned. “I believe these boat drivers are means higher than John B.”

After all, this yr’s Venice Movie Competition has been a bit totally different, with many stars absent from the competition because of the SAG-AFTRA strike. When requested about his message for the studios, Gage mentioned he hopes “we get a good deal.”

“With out actors, with out writers we will’t inform these tales and we will’t have these wonderful films, so we have to determine one thing out and we have to fast so we will all get again to work,” Gage mentioned. “I simply really feel actually fortunate and grateful to be right here in any respect and get to expertise this metropolis on this bizarre time we’re all going by means of.”

In his acceptance speech, Gage jokingly thanked his “dad” Chris Appleton, who was additionally in attendance. “I’m simply kidding, it’s my accomplice, Chris,” Gage laughed. “Thanks for supporting me.”

Different highlights included Nicolas Winding Refn presenting the breakthrough director award to Diop, whom he known as a “insurgent of the system,” and Larraín receiving the Venice Visionary award from “All Quiet on the Western Entrance” director Ed Berger.

“This competition is residence for me,” mentioned Larraín, who premiered function “El Conde” on the competition this yr. “Getting this award from this man, it means lots for me… Simply hold working guys, that’s all I say. Thanks.”

Following the ceremony, celebrities and business professionals alike gathered to sip spritzes and dance the evening away because the DJ spun the whole lot from “Hung Up” by Madonna to Azealia Banks’ “212.”