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Lil Rel Howery Once Worked with Ana de Armas, But He Doesn't Seem to Support Her Oscar Nomination for 'Blonde'

Lil Rel Howery Once Worked with Ana de Armas, But He Doesn't Seem to Support Her Oscar Nomination for 'Blonde'

Lil Rel Howery doesn’t seem to be supportive of Ana de Armas‘ Oscar nomination for Blonde, despite being a former co-star of hers.

The two actors worked together on the Hulu movie Deep Water, which was released in March 2022.

While appearing on Into It: A Vulture Podcast, Lil Rel voiced his support of the Academy’s investigation into the Best Actress nomination that Andrea Riseborough received for To Leslie.

“Well, first of all, I hate that’s the only investigation the Academy has because I feel like, even though they keep telling us the members are diverse, I don’t believe it,” he said. “It can’t be. It cannot be. It cannot be when you don’t see … Viola Davis has been nominated for an Academy Award before, but this particular character she played in The Woman King. Viola Davis is in her 50s. So outside of what she did with just the dialect and the acting, the physicality… It’s just very unfortunate that we keep — and just being honest, especially as Black people, we want to be recognized by the Academy so bad because we know what it does for our bag. You know what I’m saying?”

Lil Rel seems to think that someone else should have been bumped out of the category instead of Andrea though.

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“I’m not going to say anything, but it’s a movie nominated as a Razzie,” Howery said, referring to the several Razzies nomination received by Ana‘s movie Blonde. “That doesn’t make sense to me.”

“It’s just — and that’s somebody I did film with. I did Deep Water with her, with Ben Affleck. Amazing. I’m just talking about the Academy. What are y’all doing? Come on, fam. For real?” he added.

Check out the full list of nominations for the Oscars.

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