By chance, I was watching the red carpet coverage of the Oscars on E! when Sacha Baron Cohen, in character for The Dictator, dumped an urn of "ashes" on Ryan Seacrest.
The ashes were supposed to be those of Kim Jong Il. Actually, the powder was pancake mix.
Immediately after it happened, Seacrest looked stunned and rather ticked off. It didn't appear to be something that was planned.
Here's video:
According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Seacrest was "royally pissed."
Ryan Seacrest put on a brave face as Sacha Baron Cohen dumped an urn full of pancake mix on his tuxedo, but my sources say his immediate reaction was major anger.
Cohen, in character as the despot he plays in the upcoming “The Dictator,” pretended to fumble the urn he said contained the ashes of late North Korean strongman Kim Jong-il — all over Seacrest.
“He’s quick on his feet, and he knew he was live — but he was royally pissed off. ... Within seconds everyone was screaming, ‘This is going viral!!,’ ” an E! source said, “and Ryan realized that red carpet moment was going to be seen all over the world, almost instantly.
“Plus, he also realized he would be in every major newspaper tomorrow.”
On the air, Seacrest muttered, “I had an idea something was coming, but I had no idea.”
In character, Cohen said his military outfit was accented by “socks from Kmart. … As Saddam Hussein told me, ‘Socks are socks, don’t waste money.’ ”
Cohen’s setup for dumping the “ashes” was that the North Korean leader’s “dream was always to attend the Oscars, so I decided to come here and sprinkle his ashes over the carpet and over Halle Berry’s chest.”
Cohen's stunt was so selfish.
Someone in Hollywood behaving selfishly?
What a shock!
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