Drew Barrymore At MTV Movie And TV Awards 2023 – Hollywood Life

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The 2023 MTV Film & TV Awards on Sunday, Might 7 have been presupposed to be hosted by Drew Barrymore. And regardless of pulling out of the present on the final minute to help the writers’ strike, the long-lasting actress kicked issues off with a bang! Drew started the festivities with a prerecorded skit — as her geeky character Josie from By no means Been Kissed!

Within the skit, Drew revisited her iconic pink silk promenade dress-clad character from the 1999 comedy hit. In a single clip, she hilariously danced with Jenna Ortega, spoofing the viral Wednesday dance. In one other, she confronted off in opposition to newly christened horror icon M3gan, and in yet one more riotous clip she frolicked with “Cocaine Bear.” Because of the magic of moviemaking, she was capable of pop into Prime Gun and hang around with Jennifer Coolidge in The White Lotus.

In one other skit, Drew popped into the extremely anticipated Barbie Film, taking up the position of Skipper. Whereas noting within the humorous video that she wasn’t “technically” solid as skipper, she “simply confirmed up like this, each day, in case they wanted me!” Drew wore an extended, blonde wig with bangs and a pink pair of overalls for the clip.

In one other hilarious skit, the discuss present host inserted herself into a brilliant wet and atmospheric clip from Wednesday. Drew mocked the viral rain second from the Netflix hit, dancing and at one level shouting as Wednesday seemingly seemed on. “Hey Wednesday, come on, you appear to be you like the rain! Be part of me! Don’t fear about that hair. Braids look nice within the rain!”

Drew had beforehand teased the large present and even hinted that she “manifested” the excessive profile gig. “I’m so thrilled, I’m wondering if I oddly manifested this,” the mother of two informed Leisure Tonight throughout an on-set interview in Might. “I had been enthusiastic about award reveals and, you recognize, you used to sort of solely see folks once they would hit the carpet or come out on the stage and now, with the digital age, we’re with all people on a regular basis.”

“I need to placed on a very dynamic present and I would like it to have an arc, a starting, center and finish,” she stated. “I can inform you this, I positively will enjoying completely different characters [from] the movies that I’ve been in and I’ll positively be inserted into different movies and we’ll create numerous actually enjoyable set items and eventualities. And, thus far, the folks I do know which are coming… are so superior and completely in step with the all-ages celebration, the love of various genres, the love of various mediums. It’s a very well-balanced present, I’m actually enthusiastic about it.”

Heading up a parade of massive names friends together with Sarah Michelle Gellar and Riley Keough, each of whom introduced on the huge present, Drew represented the right intersection of Hollywood movies and tv — she started her profession as a tot in movies like E.T. The Further-Terrestrial and now hosts her personal eponymous discuss present on CBS. It might effectively have been her epic flip within the unique Scream that put her in contact with the MTV technology in 1996, and he or she’s been been proper there with them ever since.

And it’s no shock the Charlie’s Angels magnificence got here up with such a hilarious second — she’s identified for viral stunts and gags on the present, which frequently create viral moments, quotes, and soundbites. In January, the Santa Clarita Weight loss plan actress reworked into the doll from horror hit M3GAN, expertly interviewing Allison Williams after which performing a viral TikTok dance. Followers couldn’t unsee the terrifying, and hilarious, sight.

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