Amy Schumer, Wanda Sykes, and Regina Hall will host the 2022 Oscars. The all-female ensemble screams “Girl power,” but Schumer wants to make the evening about more than just Hollywood. During an appearance on “The Drew Barrymore Show,” the actor shared an idea she had for the Oscars — getting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to appear virtually. “I actually pitched; I wanted to find a way to have Zelenskyy satellite in or make a tape or something just because there are so many eyes on the Oscars,” she said, per ET Canada. “I am not afraid to go there… but it’s not me producing the Oscars,” she told Barrymore, seemingly pretty bummed that it didn’t get approved.
Schumer also touched on the pressures of the show. “I think there is definitely pressure in one way to be like, ‘This is a vacation, let people forget we just want to have this night,’ but it is like well we have so many eyes and ears on this show,” she said.
The star had a more lighthearted interview about her Oscar-hosting gig with the ladies on “The View,” per Entertainment Weekly. She joked that since everyone is just coming out of quarantine, she’s been dying to work, and she may have a couple of zingers to throw out. However, the comedian also joked that her lawyer wouldn’t approve half of what she wanted to joke about.
