Photo Credit: Glenn Close/Instagram
Oscars 2021 had the lowest viewership it’s had in its near 100 year history but for those who did tune in, Glenn Close had a moment that made sitting through it worth it. During a segment where audience members were quizzed about songs and whether they had been nominated or not, she went into great detail about E.U.’s Da Butt and gave a shoutout to “the whole DMV,” to which I laughed hysterically from that moment on. Now to put this in perspective, Glenn Close is from Greenwich Connecticut, one of the wealthiest parts of America and probably the whitest so to hear her not only be able to go on about gogo but use are a lingo in her 70s is pretty goddamn funny.
Some questioned if Close really knew about the song but at that point, it was so funny, it really didn’t matter to me. It appears they were on to something because she did reveal that she was briefed on the night’s events, that she would be asked a trivia question and her answer was discussed beforehand. When The Carmichael Show actor Lil Rel Howery informed her of the question, she said she googled ‘Da Butt.’
“I knew that Lil Rel was going to quiz me about Da Butt and all three guys (Lil Rel and her audiencemates Daniel Kaluuya and Darrell Britt-Gibson) helped me run through what I was to say,” Close wrote. “Darrell insisted that I mention the Backyard Band, on top of E.U., Suga Bear and the whole DMV.”
As for the actual answer to the question, while the song was nominated, it was in 1988’s School Daze. And the little twerk she did at the end, she said, “When Lil Rel asked if I could do the dance…you can actually see me think of the video. That part was completely spontaneous. Daniel, Darrell and Chris egged me on!!! It was ALL their fault.”
Scripted or not, the moment was precious and epic. And for the record, as someone raised in the DMV (DC, Maryland and Virginia area, for those who don’t know) More people need to know about that song. So she gets my respect for talking about it.
