The ceremonial marks Ariana's archetypal quality since performing her rhymes astatine the BAFTAs connected Feb. 19. Her rap featured the lyrics, "Angela Bassett did the happening / Viola Davis, my Woman King / Blanchett Cate you're a genius / Jamie Lee you are each of us."

While the tune received praise, it was besides met by disapproval from immoderate societal media users. In effect to the negativity, 1 of the awards show's producer's spoke retired successful defence of the West Side Story actress. 

"I deliberation it's incredibly unfair, to beryllium frank," BAFTA producer Nick Bullen told Variety Feb. 20. "I perfectly loved it. Everybody I've spoken to who was successful the country perfectly loved it. She's a immense star, she was amazing."

As for wherefore the shaper believes the show was faced with specified negativity? He chalked it up to people's views of what the BAFTAS should be.

"I deliberation a batch of radical don't similar change, and there's a presumption that the BAFTAs person to beryllium this somewhat stiff, accepted British, middle-England messaging," helium told the outlet. "But American awards shows person overmuch much razzmatazz, overmuch much showbiz, and possibly a broader scope of radical being involved. We felt we're not astir revolution, we're astir evolution." 

Nick isn't the lone 1 to person spoken retired since Ariana took the stage. A fewer days later, Ariana herself addressed the matter, noting she wanted to observe women with her performance. 

"That's what I wanted to do," DeBose said connected BBC Radio 2's The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show, arsenic seen successful an excerpt released connected TikTok Feb. 25. "It's not similar I was like, 'Hey BAFTA, fto maine in!' They really called me, judge it oregon not. That was the assignment, like, 'Come observe women.' I was like, 'Absolutely!' And we did that, and it was fun." 

Reflecting connected her clip wide the BAFTAs, Ariana said, "Not gonna lie. I had a blast."

After seeing her ain the nighttime with immoderate comedy, it's wide the SAG Awards volition beryllium nary antithetic for Ariana. Keep scrolling to spot much stars astatine the 2023 SAG Awards.