It was a curious end to a glorious night at the Academy Awards.
The year was 2014, Cate Blanchett won the Oscar for her performance in Blue Jasmine and to celebrate she visited a West Hollywood tattoo parlour with husband Andrew Upton, fellow best actress nominee Amy Adams and her husband Darren Le Gallo.
The morning visit was captured by the paparazzi that roam Sunset Boulevard but the story behind it remains a mystery.
"I don't speak about those things," Adams laughed in a recent interview with AAP in Los Angeles.
Don't be surprised if Blanchett and Adams head back to the Shamrock Social Club tattoo parlour after the February 24 Academy Awards.
Adams is almost certain to be a nominee for her outstanding new performance as Lynne Cheney in Vice, the biopic about former US Vice President Dick Cheney.
She has already picked up Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations in recent weeks.
Adams is used to being an Oscar bridesmaid, with four nominations and no wins including 2014 when she was up for American Hustle but was trumped by Blanchett.
The 44-year-old American jokes it might be decades before she finally wins, but when she does she will head back to the tattoo parlour with Blanchett.
"I'll be 75 getting a tattoo with Cate Blanchett but I'll do it if she's game," Adams said.
Vice follows the rise of Cheney from a Wyoming nobody and boozer to a small-time political player to the highly-influential and largely hidden role he performed as VP to President George W Bush between 2001 to 2009.
The film, written and directed by Adam McKay, tells Cheney's story in a humorous, fast-paced way similar to McKay's 2016 Oscar best picture nominated The Big Short about what led to the 2007-2008 US subprime mortgage crash.
Vice has dominated this year's Hollywood awards season with six Golden Globe nominations, more than any other film, and numerous other critics and guild nods.
Oscar winner Christian Bale plays Cheney, another Oscar winner Sam Rockwell is impressive as Bush, Steve Carell is Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Tyler Perry is US Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Adams portrays Ms Cheney as a powerful behind-the-scenes force who turned her husband from a no-hoper into one of America's most influential players and whose impact is still felt around the world.
"Everything I learned about her was a surprise," Adams said.
"The only thing I really knew about her was what Eminem thought about her which was from the song."
Ms Cheney and Eminem had public stoushes in the early 2000s over what she described as his glorification of violence against women and gay people.
Eminem responded by firing off expletives at Ms Cheney in his 2002 song White America.
Just like Adams' reluctance to chat about her post-Oscar tattoo date with Blanchett, she declined AAP's invitation to rap a few lines of White America.
"I can," Adams, initially offering hope of busting out a rap during the interview, smiled.
"I won't."
Well, she might, but just away from my tape recorder or camera.
"I'll invite you to karaoke," Adams says.
Maybe Blanchett will tag along.
Vice opens in Australia on Boxing Day.
Australian Associated Press
