Cocaine Bear journeys Elizabeth Banks on stage on the Oscars

Elizabeth Banks was tripped over by Cocaine Bear on stage on the 2023 Academy Awards. The actress-turned-director headed as much as the platform to current the award for Greatest Visible Results on the Oscars ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday night time (March 12) and he or she was joined by an individual in an animal costume representing the drug-fuelled protagonist in her new film Cocaine Bear — however she nearly fell flat on her face in the course of the skit. After narrowly avoiding an embarrassing fall, she informed the viewers: “Hit the mark… Oh, my God — he tripped me.”

She then went on to say: “I lately directed the movie Cocaine Bear. With out visible results, that is what the bear would appear to be.”

The bear continued to offer her hassle throughout her speech prompting the actress to joke: “It is terrifying, cease it. No director desires to deal with this. What are you doing? Cease it, put your paw down, are you making an attempt to attain proper now? It’s good to watch for the afterparty like all people else.”

Elizabeth’s voice sounded raspy as she tried to offer out the prize and he or she apologised to viewers, saying: “Visible results — sorry my voice — can improve any story and are an unimaginable software for filmmakers like me. With out visible results, Cocaine Bear would have been some actor in a bear swimsuit, most likely on cocaine.”

She then introduced Avatar: The Method of Water because the winner of the Greatest Visible Results Oscar with the blockbuster triumphing over All Quiet o the Western Entrance, The Batman, Black Panther: Wakanda Eternally, and Prime Gun: Maverick.

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