Olivia Colman says Rachel Weisz, Emma Stone gave up Oscar nomination for her

Los Angeles, Feb 9 Actress Olivia Colman says Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone, her co-stars in the 2019 film, The Favourite, refused to be nominated in the Best Actress category at Oscars 2019 so that she could have a bigger chance of winning.

"What I didn't realise for the Oscars was that you are meant to say what category you want to go up for. I went, 'no, that's rude. I'm not doing that'. And also because I felt that we were all three equal people Emma, me and Rachel were three equals. I said, 'if they can't change it so that we can all be equals, then I don't want to do it, because it's not right'," Colman told Total Film Magazine

She added: "So I refused to say it. I said, 'we can either all go up for lead, or all go up for supporting'.

However Emma and Rachel had already made their "best friend moves".

"What I didn't realise... someone let slip that Emma and Rachel had both decided which makes me feel quite emotional that they would go supporting to make me go lead, because they said they'd both had it, so it was my turn," shared Olivia.

Praising her co-stars and friends, she said: "Isn't that amazing? That's two incredible friends. I said I was not doing it unless we could all be equal. So they ignored me, and did something selfless and charitable."

( With inputs from IANS )