Did you catch Stellan Skarsgard thanking his “Chernobyl” makeup artist at the Golden Globes last Sunday night? The actor said he’s been told his face isn’t particularly memorable.
“I realized it was because I don’t have any eyebrows. Nobody can tell if I’m angry or surprised,” he told the audience as he accepted an award for best supporting actor in a television series. (For the record, he does, in fact, have eyebrows. They’re just blond, like his hair.)
“It’s not like Colin Farrell,” he continued. “You can tell if he’s angry 20 miles away, but for this film, Daniel Parker made a couple of eyebrows for me.
“And … ” he said, raising his trophy, the biggest award of his 50-year career.
It might have seemed like a throwaway remark to fill an acceptance speech, but Skarsgard underscored what fashionable women and men already know: Your eyebrows do a lot of work.