John Cena made a long-lasting impression on Oscar viewers when he took the stage seemingly nude save some sandals on Sunday.
The actor, 46, lined his privates with a winners envelope as he walked onstage. However as many viewers predicted, the massive envelope wasn’t really the one factor between Cena’s manhood and ABC’s cameras through the dwell broadcast.
As a part of an elaborate bit involving the Oscars’ historical past with streakers, Cena wound up presenting the award for Greatest Costume Design almost within the buff, and it proved to be one of many funniest, boldest highlights of the night time.
After the nominees had been learn off and the present minimize to a video montage, Cena reappeared sporting a large curtain as a gown to guard his modesty.
Nonetheless, the Peacemaker star wasn’t actually nude — and we’re not simply speaking about his sandals. Actually, contemplating the class he was presenting, Cena employed a tried and true Hollywood strategy of cautious and deliberate costuming for the bit.
The extremely buff actor stripped right down to as nude as humanly attainable with out really exposing himself and lined his privates — each back and front — in exactly positioned, pores and skin tone material making up an merchandise of clothes that appeared like a cross between a loin fabric and a Speedo.
For the file, the Oscar went to Holly Waddington for Poor Issues. The movie beat out Barbie, Killers of the Flower Moon, Napoleon and Oppenheimer.
As for the streaker skit, the entire thought was meant to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the time when a person named Robert Opel faked his method into the forty sixth Academy Awards in 1974 — supposedly pretending to be a journalist — and streaked throughout the stage whereas David Niven was in the course of introducing Elizabeth Taylor.
The 2024 Academy Awards, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, aired dwell from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday, March 10, at 4 p.m. PT/7 p.m. ET on ABC. Comply with alongside at ETonline.com for full Oscars protection, together with crimson carpet arrivals, the complete winners list and extra.
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