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Tonight’s MTV Film & TV Awards marked the primary main awards present since members of the Writers Guild of America went on strike final Tuesday. Following Drew Barrymore’s resolution to drop out as host, Paramount introduced that it might pivot from a dwell ceremony to a pre-taped particular, leading to an almost starless, flashback-filled broadcast.
Main as much as the present—which was set to happen at Los Angeles’ Barker Hangar—movie star presenters like Jamie Lee Curtis and Vanderpump Guidelines’ Lala Kent introduced that they might not attend, in solidarity with movie and tv writers presently on strike for higher wages. Deadline additionally reported that a big portion of the night’s scheduled expertise—which included Gal Gadot, Tiffany Haddish, and the forged of Daisy Jones & The Six—had pulled out of the occasion.
The night wasn’t completely missing in star energy, although. A number of celebrities, like Tom Cruise and The Final of Us breakout actress Bella Ramsey, accepted their awards through video. Different golden popcorn recipients, like Jennifer Coolidge and Pedro Pascal, acknowledged the strike of their recorded acceptance speeches.
“Nearly all nice comedy begins with nice writers,” Coolidge stated whereas accepting this 12 months’s Comedic Genius Award. “And I simply suppose that as a proud member of SAG, I stand right here earlier than you tonight, facet by facet with my sisters and brothers from the WGA. They’re combating proper now, combating for the rights of writers in every single place.”
Stranger Issues actor Joseph Quinn additionally gave a shout-out to writers when he received Greatest Breakout Efficiency. “I don’t suppose that folks would join with a personality like Eddie or others within the Stranger Issues universe with out compassionate, clever, and high quality writing,” the British actor stated. “Being a author is a tough job, and it deserves respect.”
Whereas accepting Greatest Present for HBO’s The Final Of Us, Pascal stated he and the present’s creators have been “standing in solidarity with the WGA that's combating very arduous for honest wages.” And several other drag performers representing RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars, which received Greatest Competitors Sequence, said that they “stand with the writers of their strike.”
The remainder of the MTV telecast was primarily a two-hour-long clip bundle with a couple of pre-recorded sketches starring Barrymore. Within the opening skit, the speak present host appeared in a number of of the Greatest Film and Present nominees as her By no means Been Kissed character Josie Geller, looking for a smooch. In one other, taking cues from the Netflix present Wednesday, she recreated her viral “dancing within the rain” video. She additionally CGI’d herself into the newest Barbie trailer.
A lot of the present included prolonged flashbacks and montages of prior ceremonies, plus unique clips from upcoming movies like The Little Mermaid and Transformers: Rise of the Beasts and a sneak preview of the subsequent episode of Showtime’s Yellowjackets. And as if the vibe of the entire present wasn’t eerie sufficient, the night time ended with Ghostface accepting Greatest Film on behalf of Scream VI. Scary, certainly.