The BAFTAs boast the peculiar little quirk of always staging some lavish, alternative opening number – sometimes it’s a musical performance from a rising British singer, other times it just happens to be Cirque du Soleil.
Streep delighted televisual audiences with her own BAFTA-worthy performance as “woman delighted but extremely concerned by grand stunts and feats of balance”.
This year, the BAFTAs opened an invitation to allow famed acrobatics performers Cirque du Soleil to take over; leaping across the stage in various death-defying manners, while the likes of Daisy Ridley and Simon Pegg did their best to present a face of quiet awe.
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