This year at the Oscars the producers put on a fantastic tribute for the 1965 Best Picture, The Sound of Music, for its 50th anniversary.

Lady Gaga sang songs from the movie and Julie Andrews came out afterwards and made a speech and presented an award. But the man of her dreams from the movie, Captain Von Trapp, was no where to be seen.

Christopher Plummer, who was the actor that played Captain Von Trapp told People, “I couldn’t be there for personal reasons, and secondly I didn’t want to. It was really a tribute to Julie. It’s her movie. It’s a terrible phrase we have in England but if I had appeared there I would have looked like a spare prick at a wedding. That’s the most perfect description of how I would have looked.”

Plummer did watch the show from home and had this to say about Lady Gaga’s rendition of the title song, “I thought Lady Gaga sang absolutely wonderfully,” said Plummer, who won his first Oscar in 2012 for Beginners. “She knows how to do two styles. She knows the old way and and she knows the new way and she was so faithful to the style of the story and the song. Julie looked terrific. I was thrilled it was a tribute to her and so it should be.”

Plummer and Andrews will next be seen together participating in this year’s TCM Classic Film Festival, which runs from March 26th to the 29th on Hollywood. The festival will kick off with a screening of The Sound of Music.