John Cena on the Oscars 2024.(Getty Pictures)
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How do you win the Oscars with out profitable an Oscar? Wrestler-turned-actor and all-round legend John Cena did simply that on the 96th Academy Awards just by going clothes-free. John Cena, who had a hilarious cameo as Merman Ken, adopted up with a good funnier look as a presenter on the Oscars, highlighting the significance of costumes in movies by opting to put on none on stage whereas presenting the Greatest Costume Design award. The skit, during which Oscar host Jimmy Kimmel performed a strictly supporting function, went immediately viral. This is the way it went down.
It started with Jimmy Kimmel referencing the streaker on the 1974 Oscars who ran onto stage disrupting presenter David Niven. A pause later, John Cena poked his head out from the wings, claiming he’d modified his thoughts about recreating the incident. “You are the worst,” grumbled Jimmy Kimmel earlier than handing over the winner’s title envelope for the hapless John to make use of.
John Cena sidled out of the wings and to the presenter’s microphone whereas utilizing the envelope as finest he may because the viewers, within the Dolby Theatre the place the Oscars are held and out of it, fell about laughing.
The lights dimmed as he introduced the nominees and when tey have been turned again up, there was John Cena now clad in an impromptu toga-style ball robe with Jimmy Kimmel serving to him get into it:
Having disbursed with the necessity for the envelope, John Cena may lastly open it and announce the winner. He introduced the Greatest Costume Design award for Poor Issues to Holly Waddington:
Having introduced the home down, John Cena walked off stage – however did the actor-wrestler go on sporting nothing? These backstage photos from the award present reveal (pun supposed) that he was truly sporting a modesty pouch of the kind which are utilized in filming intimate scenes for display screen.
The arrogance and comedic timing, nevertheless, have been completely John Cena’s personal.
On this video clip, it is revealed that it took a couple of mo,re palms than simply Jimmy Kimmel’s to get John Cena into the gold toga whereas the lights have been dimmed.
#Oscars2024 John Cena dejó de estar desnudo para vestirse parcialmente y poder entregar el premio a mejor vestuario #BackStagepic.twitter.com/LKzD6ZWVY9
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Submit-award, all was effectively backstage.
Coming again to the large winners of the evening, Oppenheimer’s Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr received Greatest Actor and Greatest Supporting Actor. The movie additionally received Greatest Image and Greatest Director for Christopher Nolan. Emma Stone took dwelling the Greatest Actress for Poor Issues. Da’Vine Pleasure Randolph was named Greatest Supporting Actress for The Holdovers.
