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Conan O’Brien Details Oscars Opening That Got Cut, Says the Academy Refused to Let Him Put Clothes on an Oscar or Lay It Down Horizontally: ‘That Blew My Mind’
Conan O'Brien revealed the scrapped opening for the Oscars and says the Academy banned him from putting clothes on an Oscars statuette.
Conan would’ve eventually popped up in “Dune: Part Two,” where Javier Bardem was going to break the fourth wall by calling out O’Brien for starting the Oscars parody by going green for “Wicked.” “The whole thing was that the dye wouldn’t come off and we had to shoot it in one day,” O’Brien said, noting the video would’ve also included characters like Count Orlok from “Nosferatu” piling on him for the mistake. The video package led into a musical performance from “Wicked” Oscar nominees Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, which was then followed by O’Brien’s “Substance” parody and his opening monologue.
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