{"id":19790,"date":"2021-04-15T14:09:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T04:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=191270"},"modified":"2021-04-15T14:06:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T14:06:48","slug":"james-franco-anne-hathaway-oscars-monologue-explained","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/james-franco-anne-hathaway-oscars-monologue-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"James Franco and Anne Hathaway\u2019s Oscars Monologue Was Doomed From The Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_191272\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-191272\" style=\"width: 2120px\" class=\"wp-caption alignfull -width -width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-191272 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-109480486.jpg\" alt=\"James Franco Anne Hathaway\" width=\"2120\" height=\"1560\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-191272\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hosts James Franco and Anne Hathaway speak onstage during the 83rd Annual Academy Awards held at the Kodak Theatre on February 27, 2011 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/billie-eilish-oscars-face\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Academy Awards<\/a> opening monologue is always iconic. It is always painfully relevant to the year&#8217;s current affairs and the jokes often directed at Hollywood&#8217;s own. So naturally, <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/james-franco-snubbed-oscar-nominations-sexual-harassment-allegations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Franco<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/anne-hathaway-name\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anne Hathaway<\/a>&#8216;s iteration in 2011 would go down as perhaps the most awkward of all time, almost entirely due to the star&#8217;s lack of chemistry.<\/p>\n<p>In the lead up to the 2021 awards ceremony, David Wild, one of the 2011 Oscars&#8217; four main writers has revealed what really happened behind-the-scenes in a conversation with <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theringer.com\/movies\/2021\/4\/14\/22381783\/2011-oscars-james-franco-anne-hathaway-behind-the-scenes-story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Ringer<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to Wild, an awkward encounter occurred between the actors during rehearsal, saying, &#8220;Again, this is a memory, but [Anne] was like &#8216;Maybe you should try that,&#8217; and he was like, &#8216;Don&#8217;t tell me how to be funny.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of stuff that made it into the show was written a few days beforehand,&#8221; another writer, Megan Amram, added.\u00a0&#8220;We wrote all these jokes, but I don&#8217;t think we ever landed on a tone or a cohesive feeling of what the show would be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"James Franco and Anne Hathaway host the Oscars\u00ae\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/82fIpQjOxmc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The debacle was not lost on Franco or Hathaway either.\u00a0In 2016, Franco recalled the criticism in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2016\/04\/james-franco-jerry-saltz-converstaion-c-v-r.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>New York Magazine<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When Anne Hathaway decided to host the Oscars with me\u2026She had said no before, and then they asked me to ask her, and I said, &#8216;Let&#8217;s just do it. It&#8217;ll be an adventure,&#8217; and then we got a lot of s&#8211;t for it,&#8221; he told the publication. &#8220;I probably got more than she did, but she got a lot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Franco continued, &#8220;I&#8217;m going to do what they ask me to and do it as well as I can, but I don&#8217;t need this to be the best Oscars ever. I&#8217;m not getting anything out of that. In the best-case scenario, even if I killed it, it&#8217;s not going to help my career, because that&#8217;s not what it&#8217;s based on. It was an experiment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_191274\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-191274\" style=\"width: 1776px\" class=\"wp-caption alignfull -width -width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-191274 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-109485873.jpg\" alt=\"James Franco Anne Hathaway\" width=\"1776\" height=\"2344\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-191274\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Presenters James Franco and Anne Hathaway speak onstage during the 83rd Annual Academy Awards held at the Kodak Theatre on February 27, 2011 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hathaway echoed these comments in a 2019 interview with\u00a0<em>People <\/em>(per <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/2019\/02\/anne-hathaway-oscar-host-2011-james-franco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vanity Fair<\/a>)<\/em><em>, <\/em>admitting Franco convinced her to host. Looking back the actress wishes she trusted her instincts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan I dish some tea? I turned that gig down, and James is the one that convinced me to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen all the dust settled, I was just like, you gotta be kidding me,\u201d she said. \u201cYour first instinct is usually the right one&#8230; all the reasons why I turned it down came true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 2021 Oscars will air on April 25 in the US. Fingers crossed there are no more awkward moments like the above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1627,"featured_media":19791,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[23,16],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Inside James Franco and Anne Hathaway\u2019s Oscars Monologue - Grazia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"James Franco and Anne Hathaway&#039;s 2011 Oscars monologue would go down as perhaps the most awkward of all time, almost entirely due to the star&#039;s lack of chemistry. 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