We did the dress rehearsal and I just had a pair of regular underwear on and with the (stage) lights, they see through things, and so the Academy or the network or someone said we had to do something so that you couldn’t tell my religion (whether he was circumcised or not)… and so what they did was they had to take a second pair of underwear and sew it to the first so that you couldn’t see through it.”
—Neil Patrick Harris, host of the 87th Academy Awards, who makes it clear that he didn’t enhance the two pairs of undies with socks
H/t: Hollywood.com
lauraspencer
He doth protest too much.
It was obviously stuffed.
As someone who works out at Neil’s gym what I find more interesting than his stuffed panties is that he took out both of his nipple rings. In the era of 50 SHADES OF GREY wasn’t he comfortable being 15 SHADES OF GAY?
Black Pegasus
His stunt was typical of a narcissistic aging gay man. He’s over 40yrs old. I don’t want to see that dude. You’re not Justin Bieber or Michael Hoffman. Keep your pants on!
Kieru
@Black Pegasus: Or… and I’m just thinking off the top of my head here… it was a stunt from someone who just came off performing Hedwig on broadway, where he was regularly half-naked. Maybe it had nothing to do with his sexual orientation at all. Heaven forbid!
lauraspencer
The underwear sketch was meant to get a laugh. It didn’t.
If Jack Black or another voluptuous man took the stage in his underwear it would have gotten a laugh. Or someone really old…Deniro, Pacino….saggy and a lot of body hair. It could have been played for laughs.
NPH’s appearance felt more that it was about “look at me! look at me! I’m over 40 and I have a body that looks like a 15 year olds.”
Another funny take on the sketch would have someone really HOT…Chris Pratt, Channing Tatum or Chris Evans walks on stage in underwear without even acknowledging it. Just play it totally serious like there is nothing wrong.
Pistolo
What’s his religion? Mass malpractice based on American superstition about foreskin?
Low Country Boy
Meh.
Kangol
@Black Pegasus:
He was riffing off the scene in Birdman in which Michael Keaton, as Riggan Thomson, gets locked out of the back of the theater where he’s starring and has to run around the block in his underwear, through crowds in Times Square, and then into the theater.
Did no one else here see Birdman, which won the 2015 Academy Award for Best Picture?
Billy Budd
I wont watch Birdman. Who cares.
dhmonarch89
the problem with the take on Birdman was- 95% of the home audience- or more, hasn’t seen Birdman- we just thought he was an idiot in his underwear…..
Roan
We’ve already seen it in Gone Girl. Google. He’s cut.
fiftybuff
I wondered at the time whether those were live action shorts or animated shorts.
TheNewEnergyDude
@Black Pegasus: Gurl, please. Who cares if he’s over 40…man is hot. You only *wish* you could look as good and do what he did. To be fair, I wish I could as well.
nemesis9
I’m glad the article included “(whether he was circumcised or not).” Otherwise, we idiots wouldn’t know what they meant.
JaredNorthcutt30
His stunt was typical of Westernized narcissism. Period. I still say burqas for everyone. If I could make it one day through my life without hearing about sex and gender, Oprah willing. And I’m tired of Justin Bieber or Michael Hoffman. NEXT! Maybe a transgender with their titties out? At least it will be different. If you’re a white male with a conventionally attractive body, you can practically whip it out at this point. And even the social conservatives will say, “isn’t that special? Here’s a cookie.”
enlightenone
@lauraspencer: ” In the era of 50 SHADES OF GREY wasn’t he comfortable being 15 SHADES OF GAY?”
More like 50 Shades of Aging Twink!
enlightenone
@lauraspencer: “Another funny take on the sketch would have someone really HOT…Chris Pratt, Channing Tatum or Chris Evans walks on stage in underwear without even acknowledging it. Just play it totally serious like there is nothing wrong.”
You are HIRED! Prefer the latter choice.
enlightenone
@fiftybuff: “I wondered at the time whether those were live action shorts or animated shorts.”
More like dead briefs!!!
JaredNorthcutt30
Aging twink. We’re all aging. Get over it. And please don’t make me defend Neil Patrick Harris.
lykeitiz
@Kangol: I saw it in the theater when it first came out. Meh. Just Hollywood prattling on about itself…..only to later give itself an award for it.
tusgold
post if you are cut or not NPH so people wont wonder and you can wear just one pair.