This weekend, Conan O’Brien will host the 97th Academy Awards, however the beloved comic is clearly no stranger to spending with people from the movie and TV trade. For almost three many years on his three discuss reveals, he spoke to actors, administrators and different expertise from Hollywood, and infrequently that entailed watching no matter new undertaking they have been selling forward of time. Sadly, some miscommunication resulted in his first viewing of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds being a lower than ideally suited expertise.
Throughout his go to to Jimmy Kimmel Reside! to speak with the title host forward of the winners of this yr’s Oscars nominees being introduced on the 2025 TV schedule, O’Brien recalled the time in 2009 when he was given extraordinarily quick discover about Tarantino stopping by to plug the Brad Pitt-starring World Warfare II film. He mentioned:
The worst expertise I had in my life with films was Quentin Tarantino was approaching. It was a reserving I didn’t learn about, and this can be a bunch of years in the past and he’s my favourite filmmaker… I get to work that day and so they mentioned, ‘Oh, he has a film.’ And I went, ‘Wait, nobody informed me he was approaching. What’s the film?’ It’s Inglorious Basterds, which has come to be one in every of my favourite films of all time. I like that film! And somebody says, ‘Properly he’s gonna be right here in like an hour. Watch it actually quick!’
He went on to match the state of affairs he discovered himself in to if Francis Ford Coppola was approaching his present and somebody instructed he pace watch The Godfather and The Godfather Half II shortly earlier than the interview. Since Inglourious Basterds now ranks so extremely for him, that makes it all of the extra disappointing that he couldn’t correctly take up it for his first viewing. As he described it:
It was terrible. It was like the best meal in your life, and I needed to eat it at excessive pace.
With a runtime of a bit of over two and a half hours, having to condense Inglourious Basterds in simply the span of an hour simply isn’t proper. Nonetheless, at the very least it made sufficient of an impression on Conan O’Brien that he made the time to view the flick on the correct tempo and now holds it in excessive esteem. He’s definitely not alone, as Inglourious Basterds is among the higher-ranked of Quentin Tarantino’s films.
You’ll be able to watch Conan O’Brien host the Oscars this Sunday at 8 pm ET/5 pm PT on ABC, and it’ll even be out there to stream dwell with a Hulu subscription. You may also stream O’Brien’s sequence Conan O’Brien Should Go with a Max subscription. Sadly, as of this writing, Inglourious Basterds will not be out there to look at on any of the very best streaming providers.