Chances are, you’re going to spend at least a portion of today listening to people accept awards. As tonight’s Oscars roll, we have every confidence that there will be funny acceptance speeches; touching acceptance speeches; maybe even a few genuinely bizarre acceptance speeches. But will there be any perfect acceptance speeches? Let The Studioclue you in on how you can identify one.
This is per a new Oscars-adjacent clip from the upcoming Apple TV+ comedy series, which stars Seth Rogen as a new, and floundering, head of a Hollywood studio trying to make a name for himself. In this case, quite literally, as his character Matt Remick flop sweats his way through begging guest star Zoë Kravitz to toss a “Thanks” to him into a speech for an award she’s about to win. Rogen’s clearly having fun as the very desperate Remick, but the real appeal of the clip is Kravitz, who dissects the beats of the “perfect” speech with laser-precision, charting the well-rehearsed course from “genuinely shocked” all the way to composing herself for the final round of thank yous. It’s a very funny set of observations, which then gets punctuated by an also-guest-starring-as-himself Ramy Youssef, who would like the pair to please shut the fuck up, because he’s “trying to show Christopher Nolan that I have range.”
It’s a very quick, very concentrated dose of what The Studio (created by Rogen, his long-time creative partner Evan Goldberg, and Peter Huyck, Alex Gregory, and Frida Perez) will bring to the gift bag table when it debuts on Apple TV+ on March 26. It’s worth noting that lots of shows have featured celebrities goofing on themselves over the years, but Kravitz’s monologue is so tightly observed that we can’t help but get kick out of it. (See also her immediate apologetic about-face to Youssef, who’s “killing it tonight.”)
