Andy's circus

Rooney Mara and Demian Bichir meet backstage. Andy Serkis wows the Virtuosos Award Tribute audience. Producer Jim Burke and Actress Shailene WoodleyTake two nervous gals, one Latin hottie, a chubby funnyman, a shirtless question along with a missing Oscar nominee and whoever else got? This is the assemblage the Santa Barbara Film Fest anointed using their Virtuosos Award on Friday in the Arlington Theater. Greater than a 1000 fans of Rooney Mara, Shailene Woodley, Demian Bichir, Patton Oswalt, Andy Serkis and Melissa McCarthy jammed the venue for a night of conversation using the six rising stars, only to discover that McCarthy would be a no-show, the victim of laryngitis.Bichir brought the talks, investing his "A Much Better Existence" perf to "my Mexican paisanos, the 11 million people who help this community move forward with pride and energy."Mara silently whispered in to the mic that they is "a workaholic, and prepared to return to work" around the two sequels to "The Lady Using the Dragon Tattoo." Oswalt cracked jokes about his sex moments with Charlize Theron, while Serkis did a shirtless chimpanzee imitation. "Acting with motion capture is simply exactly the same whatsoever from acting with makeup on," he was adamant. "It's simply one other way of recording an actor's performance."Woodley came to the conclusion the talks. "My movie vocabulary stretches to 'The Goonies' and 'Dirty Dancing.' There you have it. Which means this has all been pretty intimidating," she stated from the honours swirl. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com