Thread by @DrGJackBrown

1/ THREAD: Body Language Analysis No. 4677: Jamie Lee Curtis Accepts her Oscar
#BodyLanguage #BodyLanguageExpert #EmotionalIntelligence #JamieLeeCurtis #Oscars #BestSupportingActress #EmotionalProcessing

2/ Last night, Jamie Lee Curtis won the Oscar for Best Support Actress. She played, Deirdre Beaubeirdre (an IRS inspector) in the film, "Everything Everywhere All at Once".

3/ What follows is a Body Language analysis of several nonverbal behaviors Ms. Curtis displays in her acceptance speech.

4/ At the end of her speech (2:17 in the above video), Jamie Lee Curtis says, "And my mother and my father were both nominated for Oscars in different categories — [pausing while tilting her head-neck backward and looking up] I just won an Oscar!"

5/ (Jamie Lee Curtis' mother was Janet Lee and her father was Tony Curtis)

6/ Immediately after this sentence, Ms. Curtis, with her left hand, first covers her eyes ...

7/ ...then covers her mouth...

8/ ...then she blows a kiss to the audience.

9/ When a person finds themself in a sudden situation where they learn something dramatic that's factually true (intellectually true) — but they've yet to accept/fully accept the emotional ramifications of this new event (what is 'emotionally true'), ...

10/ ...they will very often (unconsciously/at the edge-of-consciousness) cover their eyes (both eyes, almost never one eye) with one or both of their hands — or cover their mouth with one or both their hands — or both (as did Ms. Curtis).

11/ As Jamie Lee Curtis' edge-of-unconsciousness mouth covering progressed into conscious awareness, she then segued into a blown kiss gesture to the audience.

12/ SUMMARY: Colloquially, it's helpful to think of this behavior as a real-time nonverbal manifestation of a person 'trying to wrap their brain around' a suddenly presented high-ramification event/news.

13/ Spontaneous Bilateral Eye covering or mouth covering with one or both hands after sudden awareness of a dramatic/surprise event, is a sincere and common signal of emotional processing.

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