Amy Schumer Wanted Volodymyr Zelenskyy At The Oscars

You already know Amy Schumer is among the hosts for subsequent week’s Oscars ceremony.

In an upcoming interview on The Drew Barrymore Present (through ET Canada), Schumer teased among the plans she has for the gig — in addition to one explicit concept that producers ended up nixing.

Particularly, she needed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to seem nearly in the course of the ceremony, in an obvious addressing of the continuing Russian invasion of Ukraine.

“I truly pitched, I needed to discover a technique to have Zelenskyy satellite tv for pc in or make a tape or one thing simply because there are such a lot of eyes on the Oscars,” she reportedly advised Drew.

In the end, producers determined to show down the concept. “I’m not afraid to go there,” she identified, “but it surely’s not me producing the Oscars.”

In the course of the interview, Amy additionally talked about hanging a steadiness between humorous and critical as one of many Oscars hosts.

“I believe there may be positively stress in a single technique to be like, ‘This can be a trip, let individuals neglect we simply need to have this night time,’” she mentioned, “however it’s like, effectively, we now have so many eyes and ears on this present.”

“I believe it’s an important alternative to at the least touch upon a few issues,” she continued. “I’ve some jokes that type of spotlight the kind of present situation. I imply, there are such a lot of terrible issues occurring that it appears onerous to deal with which one.”

We’ll see the place she and her co-hosts land subsequent Sunday.