Conan O’Brien<\/a> was banned from putting clothes on a giant Oscar statue.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Conan O’Brien has shared some secrets behind hosting the Oscars<\/p>\n
The 61-year-old comic hosted the Academy Awards earlier this month and while he had a great time, he revealed the Academy of Motion Picture Arts + Sciences and telecast producers had some strict rules that “blew [his] mind”.<\/p>\n
Speaking on his ‘Conan Needs a Friend’ podcast, he said: \u201cThey\u2019re very serious about certain things. There was a giant Oscar statue, and I shot something with it. It was really fun.\u201d <\/p>\n
He explained an idea that would have seen him and the statue sharing an apartment as a warring couple but it was quickly quashed.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cWe\u2019re fighting about things couples fight about. At one point, I thought, oh, this would be really great if the Oscar was just on the couch. <\/p>\n
\n“Let\u2019s lay it on a really big couch. And I\u2019ll be vacuuming and say, \u2018Could you at least lift your feet or could you at least get up and help load the dishwasher?\u2019 <\/p>\n
\n“We wanted to do it, and they just said, \u2018No, no, no, that can\u2019t happen.’ <\/p>\n
\n\u201cOne of the people from the Academy came forward and said, \u2018Oscar can never be horizontal.’<\/p>\n
\n“And that blew my mind. Like, wow, this is like the thigh bone of St. Peter. This is a religious icon.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nConan and his Oscars head writer Mike Sweeney were also keen to put an apron on the 9ft statue to depict it as a housewife.<\/p>\n
\nHowever, the Academy told them: \u201cNo clothing on Oscar. Oscar is always naked.\u201d <\/p>\n
\nConan noted: “I don’t fault them, it’s just this is what they do. The Oscar, the image of Oscar, is very important to them.”<\/p>\n
\nThe opening of the ceremony saw Conan spoof Demi Moore in ‘The Substance’ but he revealed a much longer opening that would have mocked all the Best Picture nominees was scrapped.<\/p>\n
\nHe explained: \u201cIt was the idea that, \u2018Oh, Conan\u2019s now going to goof on all the movies.’<\/p>\n
\n“It starts with me and I\u2019m in ‘Wicked’ and I\u2019m all green, finishing \u2018Defying Gravity\u2019 or one of those songs. I finish it, and then you cut to the next thing, which is ‘Gladiator II’, and \u2018clang, clang, clang,\u2019 with swords, and you see that I\u2019m a gladiator, but then you notice that I\u2019m still green. And then you go on to Conclave and you see people voting with their ballots and one of the hands is still green.<\/p>\n
\nThe skit would have continued with moments from ‘Dune 2’ and ‘Nosferatu’ and the actors being surprised Conan was still green.<\/p>\n
\nHe added: “The whole thing was that the dye wouldn\u2019t come off and we had to shoot it in one day.”<\/p>\n
\nBut they realised the idea was complicated and would have required too many set-ups.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
\n<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
\n<\/p>\n
\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n
Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"14 March 2025 Conan O’Brien was banned from putting clothes on a giant Oscar statue. Conan O’Brien has shared some secrets behind hosting the Oscars The 61-year-old comic hosted the Academy Awards earlier this month and while he had a great time, he revealed the Academy of Motion Picture Arts + Sciences and telecast producers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":155984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7541],"class_list":{"0":"post-155983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-conan-o"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}