Many of us pointed out, throughout the awards season, that Brie Larson was totally over Casey Affleck. Brie was the reigning Best Actress winner across the board, at all of the major awards shows, so she was repeatedly tasked with presenting this year’s Best Actor awards. When she presented the SAG Award to Denzel Washington – who won in what was a major upset – she actually giggled to herself, seemingly out of joy that she she didn’t have to pretend to congratulate Casey. This was how Brie acted after she called Casey’s name at the Golden Globes:

So glad Brie Larson found a way to be professional but keep her distance from having to reward Casey Affleck at the Golden Globes. pic.twitter.com/9dTYYxrXe7

— Priyant Pratap (@Priyant1987) January 9, 2017

And then when Casey won the Oscar, her face seemed to fall as she read his name, then she refused to clap for him:

My aesthetic: Brie Larson not clapping for literal trash hole casey affleck pic.twitter.com/Ci5LWXLkCr

— Tyler Struble (@tyler_struble) February 27, 2017

So, it was a thing and people talked about it. Whether or not Casey Affleck was a serial sexual harasser, it seemed like Brie had absolutely made up her mind about him and she made the choice to do her job – present the awards – and nothing more. No fake-friendliness, no fawning, no clapping. People noticed. And Brie was asked about it by Vanity Fair and she didn’t try to play it off like it was all in our heads.

Brie Larson presented Casey Affleck with the best-actor Oscar at the Academy Awards last week, her muted reaction did not go unnoticed, especially on social media. After handing Affleck the award, Larson stepped back and stood with both her arms at her side while the audience gave the actor a standing ovation. Many viewers speculated that Larson—a vocal advocate for sexual-assault survivors—did not clap given Affleck’s history: he was sued by two women for sexual harassment allegedly committed during the filming of I’m Still Here. (Both suits were settled in 2010.) Larson confirmed to Vanity Fair on Wednesday that her reaction was intentional.

“I think that whatever it was that I did onstage kind of spoke for itself,” she told us at the Hollywood premiere of her latest movie, Kong: Skull Island, at the Dolby Theatre. “I’ve said all that I need to say about that topic.”

[From Vanity Fair]

I’ll admit that I didn’t totally know what to make of Brie last year, during her Oscar campaign for Room. She struck me as a nice, somewhat boring, milquetoast actress who didn’t have a lot to say beyond “I’m so happy to be here.” But Brie has grown on me SO MUCH. She’s very politically active, she’s funny and interesting on Twitter, she’s sassy and I love that she’s not afraid of alienating Casey Affleck and his dude-bros in Hollywood. Her attitude seems to be “f–k y’all, I’m not clapping and that speaks for itself.”

PS… this is actually my favorite Brie moment and I’m still bummed that I didn’t write about it as it happened. Remember the first days of Trump’s first Muslim Ban? Everything was chaos and people were on social media, trying to stay focused on activism around airports. Well, Rob Lowe made a stupid tweet and Brie delivered the perfect f–king shade.

@RobLowe thank you for speaking out

— Brie Larson (@brielarson) January 30, 2017

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.