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Chris Pine gulps vodka before presenting Oscar

Chris Pine gulps vodka before presenting Oscar

Highlights

  • Hollywood actor Chris Pine said that presenting the Oscar at this year's Academy Awards made him so nervous that he had to gulp down glasses of vodka before going on stage.
  • The Star Trek actor believes that though the show was one of his career highlights, he was too petrified to hand out the coveted trophy, Contactmusic reported.
  • "The Oscars were absolutely terrifying. Awesome. But petrifying. I was a presenter and I was downing vodkas in the back praying to God to help me out," the actor said.
London: Hollywood actor Chris Pine saidthat presenting the Oscar at this year's Academy Awards madehim so nervous that he had to gulp down glasses of vodkabefore going on stage.

The Star Trek actor believes that though the showwas one of his career highlights, he was too petrified to handout the coveted trophy, Contactmusic reported.

"The Oscars were absolutely terrifying. Awesome. Butpetrifying. I was a presenter and I was downing vodkas in theback praying to God to help me out," the actor said.

The 30-year-old actor will be seen sharing screenspace with Oscar-winning actor Denzel Washington in hisupcoming film Unstoppable and said that he was "intimidated"by him.

"Man, I was nervous about that. Knowing I was going togo head to head with Denzel on the entire film, it wasincredibly intimidating, but like they say, 'If it scares you,you've got to face it," Pine said.

Unstoppable traces the story of two railway workerswho try to stop a runaway train carrying dangerous chemicals.

Though Pine tackled most of his stunts in the film but optedagainst those which could have caused serious injury.

"I tried to do as many as I could but it's a hairything with those trains, because it's not like doing a fightscene with another person where you can say, 'Stop'. You'redealing with three tons of fast-moving trains. I hear that TomCruise does every single one of his stunts, but I decided ifit's going to endanger my life, I'm giving it up to the guyswho know what they're doing," he said.

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