Emma Stone considers the Oscars fiasco to be one of the “most horrible moments” of her life.
The flame-haired beauty’s movie La La Land was mistakenly named the winner of the Best Picture gong by Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway at the annual awards bash in Los Angeles on Sunday (26.02.17) – but officials soon realised their error and the award was instead handed to Moonlight.
Emma, 28 – who was named Best Actress for her lead role in La La Land– told the Daily Mail newspaper the embarrassing gaffe was: “One of the most horrible moments of my life. Wow! It was just so horrible.”
On the other hand, Jimmy Kimmel – who presented the awards ceremony at the Dolby Theatre – has admitted he was “trying really hard not to laugh” during the memorably awkward incident.
The TV star was sitting in the audience next to his fake rival Matt Damon when the La La Land team got on stage to accept the Best Picture gong when his friend heard a stage manager say the wrong name had been announced.
Jimmy sat back in his seat and waited for the show’s host to deal with the situation – before remembering it was his job.
He said: “[It] is unusual, but you figure, ‘Well, the host will go onstage and clear this up.’ And then I remembered, ‘Oh! I’m the host!’
“… Now so we have the producers of two movies on stage. Who the hell even knows who is who from which movie?
“I’m standing there [on stage] like an idiot, feeling bad for these guys, but also trying really hard not to laugh, to be honest.”
Meanwhile, Jimmy also denied the fiasco was a prank that he’d orchestrated.
He said: “If I had pulled a prank in that situation, I wouldn’t have just had the wrong winner’s name in the envelope.
“When they opened it, there would have been, like, a Bed Bath and Beyond coupon inside.”
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