In her many acceptance speeches this awards season, Patricia Arquette thanked her costar Ethan Hawke nearly every time, including at the SAG Awards, Golden Globes and Oscars. In her Globes speech she even said that “Ethan reminded me of my own father.” You get the impression that those two are close, but according to Star Magazine they may not be best buddies. Star claims they were fighting so much before the Oscars that they had to be sent to a side room to calm down, lest they interrupt the ceremony.

“There has been tension between them for a long time,” says an insider. “Ethan made some snide comments years ago about her family, and Patricia has never gotten over that. Now he can’t stand that she’s getting so much acclaim and he is kind of an afterthought.” Things came to a boiling point at the Oscars, when the two – nominated for Best Supporting Actor and Actress – started bickering just before the ceremony started. “He didn’t like that she had a better seat than he did. He thought it was disrespectful,” says the source, who was also an eyewitness. “It got so heated, they were ushered into a small room that was being used for seat fillers. She told him to shut up and get over himself.”

[From Star Magazine, print edition, March 16, 2015]

If this really happened these two got over it quick. I re-watched the video of Arquette getting her Oscar and she hugged her boyfriend, artist Eric White, and then she hugged Ethan, just one row behind her and also in an aisle seat. She even kissed Ethan’s wife. This sounds like B.S. to me. I also Twihard proofed this story by rewatching the opening number (you’re welcome) and Arquette and Hawke were there, they’re at about 7:46 into this video. (With the incredible Chiwetel Ejifor one row behind them.) So if this story is true, they recovered quickly enough to make it back before the show started. That said, I can see tempers flaring before a big stress-filled event like this. Many friends and couples get into arguments, it doesn’t mean they can’t stand each other or are jealous or whatever.

Here’s a screenshot of these two during the opening ceremony:

Patricia has a new interview with Time Magazine to promote her role on CSI: Cyber. As she did in her interview with Buzzfeed (which we covered yesterday), she claimed that the comments she made backstage at the Oscars (in which she said “it’s time for all the women in America and all the men that love women, and all the gay people, and all the people of color that we’ve all fought for to fight for us now.”) were misconstrued. She said “I don’t think people really understood what I meant by that. I don’t think they understood what I was talking about, exactly. This is a huge discrimination issue affecting women across America. It affects whole lives — the impact of this.” I don’t think Arquette understands that people weren’t responding to her excellent comments about wage inequality during her speech, they were in large part (except for the hacks at Fox News) responding to her calling out other groups for not supporting women’s issues. She does make good points of course.

On the red carpet these two look close. That doesn’t mean they don’t argue occasionally though.

Also here’s Patricia at The Noble Awards, which honor celebrity philanthropists. Gurl, what are you wearing?!

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