Oscar Co-Host Regina Hall Is Preparing to ‘Make Fun of People’ During the Ceremony, Defends Category Reformatting

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Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorRegina Hall is getting ready to roast her Hollywood peers when she co-hosts this year’s Oscars with Wanda Sykes and Amy Schumer.“We’re really excited to celebrate film and make fun of people, too,” Hall told me Friday while promoting her new horror movie “Master.”She added, “I was like, ‘Do you think we’re going to have friends after?’ No, we’re going to.

Hopefully everyone will know anything that’s said or done, it’s all in fun. It is the point. It is one of the points of the night to be able to celebrate and for all of us to make fun of ourselves… To celebrate all the nominees and the movies and poke fun where we can.”Hall recalled being asked to co-host. “I was like, ‘Really?’” she remembered. “And then it’s also terrifying.

Are they crazy for asking me? Or am I crazy for saying yes. But it was also really great because I’m with two amazing women and there’s been so much support.” Hall admits that she never thought she’d see three women co-hosting the film industry’s biggest night of the year.“I think it’s really incredible,” she said. “It’s Women’s History Month and I think we have a really big reason to celebrate… Celebrating this moment and how profound it is, but also really hopefully how fun it is.

We want people to look back and really understand and feel, ‘Oh, that was fun. We really celebrated and we had three women.’ It’s great.”This year’s show, which takes place on March 27 and airs on ABC, is being produced by Hall’s “Girls Trip” producer Will Packer.