Paul Giamatti’s new girlfriend Clara Wong performed his on-screen dominatrix

Giamatti, 56, took house the Finest Actor in a Musical or Comedy Movie award throughout Monday’s ceremony for his starring position in The Holdovers.

There to cheer him on was actress Clara Wong, who followers on social media quickly identified was not simply his new girlfriend, however a former co-star.

Wong appeared on a number of episodes of Giamatti’s TV sequence Billions – enjoying a dominatrix named Troy that his lawyer character secretly visits.

Giamatti and Wong seem in a number of racy scenes collectively within the present, along with her dominatrix character subjecting him to all method of kinky issues.

He made some revealing feedback about their scenes collectively throughout a latest purple carpet look, when requested what it was prefer to have a cigarette put out on his chest throughout their S&M scenes collectively.

“It was nice. I loved it very a lot,” Giamatti instructed Web page Six.

“I did! I loved it — it was really actually type of attention-grabbing. I used to be genuinely tied up in all these knots, and I discovered it very, uh, soothing.”

Outdoors of this new relationship with Wong, Giamatti largely retains his private life non-public: He married Elizabeth Cohen in 1997 and the couple had a son collectively, Samuel, however broke up at an unknown time within the 2000s.

In the meantime, social media went wild over a candid post-Globes photograph of Giamatti that emerged on-line earlier this week.

It confirmed the actor, nonetheless in his tux and along with his newly-won Golden Globe award subsequent to him, sitting in an In-N-Out burger quick meals restaurant and having fun with a late-night meal.

“That is essentially the most Paul Giamatti factor I’ve ever seen,” wrote movie critic Zoe Rose Bryant, whereas filmmaker and podcaster Sergio Muñoz Esquer captioned it merely: “My king.”