Andrew Rannells Tells Funny Story of Attending 2015 Golden Globes, Being Removed From His Table & Seated Next to A-List Celebs!

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Andrew Rannells attended the 2015 Golden Globes as the guest of his Girls co-star Lena Dunham, who was nominated for her work on the HBO show.

The 44-year-old actor revealed in a new interview that he was removed from the Girls table and forced to sit at a different table, next to some A-List celebs who seemed confused by his placement at their table. “They told me as I arrived that, um, that Richard Plepler, who was at the time the, you know, head of HBO, had decided at the last moment to bring his wife, which is lovely, but it meant there was no seat for me at the table anymore,” Andrew said on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show. Keep reading to find out more… He added, “So they bumped me and they put me at the Foxcatcher table.” Foxcatcher was up for Best Picture – Drama and acting awards for Steve Carrell and Mark Ruffalo. “Foxcatcher, a film I was not in but did watch, so that was great.

So I had seen it, but it was me and the cast of Foxcatcher. And, um, I had no business being at that table. But I certainly, you know, by the end of the evening, I had firmly inserted myself into that crew.

And I was like, then I started thinking, I was like, ‘Well, maybe people will think I was in it,’” Andrew said. Andrew revealed how he was seated next to Mark, who was nominated twice that night. “I got nervous and I didn’t really know Mark Ruffalo, but I thought he was really nice and cool.