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Anchoring the figure to the base, it also has a practical function: The cane helps support and stabilize one side of the weighty bronze.

But as much as the Oscars love rewarding a good biopic turn, Brody delivers a serious, deeply emotional performance in a movie that feels weighty.

She added that the decision had "weighty repercussions for how civil servants can act in the future and their confidence in speaking out when they encounter wrongdoing".

"If anything weighty happens in my life, the last thing I want to do is write a song about it," Braithwaite told The Herald newspaper in 2003, an ethos that holds true today.

Are you naturally funny or were you consciously thinking I need to keep this entertaining so it doesn’t feel more weighty than my life really was?