The movie was panned by critics, many of whom called it unfunny, and has only a 17 percent freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes. But in one zinger, Gervais also took a shot at Sony’s Adam Sandler starrer Pixels, about a group of childhood friends who have to use their skills at arcade games to save the world when aliens attack Earth using the classic games as the models for their assaults. Gervais made a number of jokes about The Martian being included in the musical or comedy categories at the Golden Globes, a curious placement, given that the sci-fi film about an astronaut struggling to survive on Mars isn’t a traditional comedy. “To be fair, The Martian was a lot funnier than Pixels. “I didn’t want to keep fighting over millions of dollars that, frankly, due to two franchises, I don’t need.” In addition to her role in the Hunger Games series, Lawrence recently completed her last of three X-Men films. “I failed as a negotiator because I gave up early,” she wrote. There were marches on the street with nurses and factory workers saying, ‘How the hell can a 25-year-old live on $52 million?’ There were plumbers around the world going, ‘Poor girl it’s … f-ing hell.'” He joked that Lawrence “received overwhelming support from people everywhere.
But, as Gervais joked, Lawrence isn’t exactly impoverished.
The actress’ comments reignited the discussion about the pay gap between men and women in Hollywood. “How the hell can a 25-year-old live on $52 million?”ĭuring his monologue, Gervais also addressed Jennifer Lawrence’s Lenny essay, in which she talked about her anger when she discovered, via the Sony hack, that she was paid less than her male co-stars in American Hustle. But following the election of former president Theo Kingma in 2013 (Lorenzo Soria currently leads the HFPA), the Golden Globes has made a concerted effort to demonstrate its legitimacy. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter last year, Zadora insisted her win was justified, adding, “I know that Rik did not buy it.” This isn’t the first time Gervais has joked about bribery on the Golden Globes stage it was a popular source of material during his 2010-2012 hosting stint as well. The common suspicion was that Zadora’s award was bought by the film’s sole backer, her husband, Meshulam Riklis. The unknown, then-28-year-old beat out actresses like Kathleen Turner and Elizabeth McGovern to win the Golden Globe for her performance in the trashy incest drama Butterfly, which hardly anybody at the ceremony had seen, since it wasn’t being released until the following week. One of the most famous controversies surrounds Pia Zadora’s 1982 win of the best new star award. That’s ridiculous, he joked: “As if film stars would stay away from the chance of winning a Golden Globe - particularly if their film company has already paid for it.” In the past, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the organization that determines the Globe winners, has been dogged by rumors that awards or the support of HFPA members could be bought or won by favors, gifts or bribes. In his opening monologue, Gervais claimed that an entertainment publication argued that his return as host would mean some stars would skip the show for fear they’d be the targets of his jokes.
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