The Oscars are in full swing and after a robust begin with performances from Depraved favorites Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, Conan O’Brien took to the stage for his introduction as host.
And as anticipated he delivered some large swings along with his jokes, most notably calling out Emilia Perez star Karla Sofía Gascón to her face throughout the monologue. For these much less conscious, Gascón got here beneath fireplace lately after social media posts with racist remarks resurfaced.
In the course of the monologue, O’Brien famous how a lot swearing occurred within the movie Anora, saying the Greatest Image nominee had solely three extra expletives delivered than Gascón’s publicist upon studying in regards to the social media posts.
“Little reality for you, “Anora” makes use of the F phrase 479 occasions. That’s three greater than the file set by Karla Sofia Gascon’s publicist” – Conan on the #Oscars2025 pic.twitter.com/YBYnDGI3UE
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) March 3, 2025
“She tweeted what?!” O’Brien exclaimed, appearing how he imagined Gascón’s rep will need to have.
“Properly, I’m having enjoyable…” O’Brien continued, including, “Karla Sofia Gascón is right here tonight and, Karla, in case you are gonna tweet in regards to the Oscars, bear in mind, my title is Jimmy Kimmel,” O’Brien.
The digicam panned over to Gascón amid the dialogue, throughout which she smiled and laughed together with the joke, however appeared to want clarification surrounding O’Brien’s Kimmel point out. Kimmel beforehand hosted the Oscars lately.
Karla Sofia Gascón made a splash this awards season in Netflix’s extremely buzzed-about movie Emilia Perez which costars Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldana. However Gascón’s previous social media posts, discovered on X (previously referred to as Twitter) have put into query the movie’s potential for achievement on the ceremony.
Keep tuned to see how issues will prove for Emilia Perez, Gascón, and extra because the night unfolds, and tell us what you consider O’Brien’s daring joke within the feedback part, beneath.