The standout highlight.
Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr. just couldn’t resist a small dig at Warren Beatty’s mix up at the Oscars when he took to the podium at the Bafta TV Awards this evening.
The star of The People vs OJ Simpson and As Good As It Gets was invited on stage to present the award for Best Female Performance in a Programme – won by the incredibly talented Phoebe Waller-Bridge for Fleabag – but before she took to the stage, Gooding Jr decided to have a little fun.
After pretending to struggle to read the auto-queue, the actor then pretended to ignore the pre-penned script, saying: “I can’t do a transvestite joke I’m a BAFTA winner now!”
The actor then decided to embrace his inner Warren Beatty.
Take a look.
Cuba Gooding Jr just won all the BAFTAs. #BAFTATV
— Sam Homewood (@SamHomewood) May 14, 2017
Cuba Gooding Jnr effortlessly upstaging all the autocue-reliant divs at #BAFTATV then giving the award to Phwoah Waller-Bridge (intentional)
— DanYE West (@DannyFlexen) May 14, 2017
#BAFTATV let cuba gooding jnr present next years baftas.
— Roy Williams (@royboywilliams) May 14, 2017
