Let it be known: Andy Cohen is not an actor.
That fact became quite clear during an interview segment with three-time ‘Best Actress’ Academy Award nominee Debra Winger.
Winger stopped by Watch What Happens Live where Cohen had her play a game he calls “Plead the Fifth.” In the clip, Cohen explains he’ll ask three potentially embarrassing questions, and she can opt out of answering only one of them.
Winger clearly isn’t amused by the premise, and it only gets more awkward as Cohen asks some trademark gossipy questions of the acclaimed performer, who just isn’t having it. Did she know what show she signed up for?
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After getting a pretty big fact wrong about Winger’s past, Cohen wraps up by asking her to rank her onscreen kisses with famous actors.
“So you remember somebody you kissed 30 years ago?” she asks the host. “You don’t think that you sort of are busy investigating a character, which puts you in another self state? Right now it’s pretty hard to be authentically a person.”
“I’m not an actor so I actually don’t know,” replies Cohen, trying to cut through the palpable tension in the room.
After the segment, Cohen shared on his Instagram story that “Tonight’s show was rough. The team and I are having a cocktail to hash it out. I earned a drink tonight.”
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Lacuevaman
go ms. winger!!!
QueerTruth
He’s the worst kinda person. Why does he still have a mic?
richybruce
He had several facts completely wrong which was embarrassing. But he’s just an awkward nasty queen. She, understandably, was not into him.
MikeM
Too lazy to do genuine homework. He is a buffoon. I’m glad she dragged him.
lather
BRAVO to Debra Winger.
Watch the clip. You’ll see why.
Woody
Winger is no fun.
OzJosh
Oh, come on! Attacking Cohen here is just silly. Winger agreed to go on a gossipy, light-hearted show that is more interested in dish than depth, then refuses to enter into the spirit of it. The truth is Winger is notorious for being “difficult”. She likes to pretend she walked away from Hollywood years ago, but that’s only because it reached the point where literally nobody would hire her.
nm4047
someone must watch this clown, like many overrated ppl on television, they garner more publicity from stunts that then get rehashed on the the internet by site such as Queerty, I personally cannot say I know anyone that finds this guy interesting/attractive but still he’s got a job, go figure.
Billy Budd
OK, this guy is reasonably cute, he is gay like the rest of us, he is friends with Anderson Cooper (whom I love), but the fact remains: His show is SHEET. If I were interviewed by him, I would do just like Winger did.
JamJewel
Leaving her [Ms. Winger’s} horrible reputation securely in tact, in shreds on the studio floor. It was cringe inducing… even I needed a drink!
David
I love Andy but he is one nasty,nasty, queen. It was Debra’s first time on the show and I got the feeling she really didn’t quite get the concept of the show; which is just pure silliness. In Andy’s defense his Producers did give him wrong information a few times which she called him out on. The show was just not a good fit for her; she didn’t get it.
GregR
I’m no fan of Cohen, especially the way he’s treated Kathy Griffin, but why do people relentlessly go after him for the kind of show it is? It’s a cheesy, gossipy show and some like that.
Winger, on the other hand. has been a shrew in the business for 30+ years. Had she continued on her trajectory for the early 80’s, she could have been an A-lister, but she was difficult to work with and had conflicts with/disliked many she worked with, including Shirley McClaine and others. She turned down dozens of iconic roles that made stars out of others. The fact is, when you do a show like this, you suck it up for 20 minutes. Yes, stupid questions about kissing and the Housewives etc. will be asked but for her to be all snappy on a show like this shows the problems she has working with people. If she didn’t want this, she should have done a show on PBS or something.
Toofie
Debra Winger was hilarious!
jorgecruz
Debra Winger was on this show for one reason- to plug the new season of her Amazon show. She had a stink face on the entire time and Amanda Peet didn’t help. Going on WWHL and complaining it is fluff is like going to a bathhouse and complaining people are doing drugs and being slutty. That mumbo jumbo about creating her character in Urban Cowboy was laughable. No one is going to confuse her with Meryl Streep but her acting in the clip of her new show was horrendous.
Rock-N-RollHS
Great actress. Love. Good for her.
LilMesican
Poor Andy Cohen had a tough interview? Boo-hoo!!!
Theweatherman
Andy Cohen deserves whatever comes her way. She’s a kiss ass opportunist (don’t get in her way) and constantly is throwing shade. No sympathy.