While announcing the Yellowstone star star arsenic the Best Actor successful a Television Drama Series victor during the Jan. 10 ceremony, the Girls Trip histrion could hardly support a consecutive look portion speechmaking from the teleprompter erstwhile sharing wherefore Costner was absent.
"He truthful overmuch wanted to beryllium present but due to the fact that of the unprecedented upwind and flooding, helium has to structure successful spot successful Santa Barbara. Jesus," Hall said smiling, drafting laughs from the crowd. "This is simply a bittersweet communicative close now. He's stuck successful Santa Barbara."
A time earlier the grant show, fire officials issued evacuation orders for parts of Santa Barbara County owed to flooding and mudslide threats from dense storms.
"Let's pray, everyone," Hall continued, giggling and drafting much laughter from the audience. "No, that's awful. No, no, no, this is true. Everyone, we bash pray, we anticipation everyone affected by these storms remains harmless and I'm going to judge that grant close determination connected your behalf, Kevin."
Online reactions to Hall were swift and mixed. Many praised her comedic delivery. "Regina Hall accepting that grant for Kevin Costner was the funniest happening I've seen each year," 1 idiosyncratic tweeted. "Give that its ain Emmy."
But immoderate radical claimed the histrion "mocked" Costner. "I privation much radical followed orders truthful First responders bash not proceed to hazard their lives trying to harmless radical who deliberation they are supra Mother Nature," 1 idiosyncratic wrote connected Hall's Instagram. "From a chap Californian, these storms person been nary gag and lives person been lost. I was a instrumentality of yours until tonight. Very mediocre sensation and you took distant from a precise good deserved honor!"
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During the ceremony, Costner shared a video on Instagram apologizing for being incapable to attend. Standing successful a plot overlooking the ocean, helium said, "Look, I'm truthful atrocious for everyone who mightiness person been tuning into ticker the Golden Globes. Chris and I aren't going to beryllium capable to beryllium there."
The Oscar winner—who has 7 children, including 3 with woman Christine Baumgartner—explained the interaction the storms person had connected his family.
"Yesterday, we had to propulsion the kids retired of schoolhouse and successful Santa Barbara, this is the 2nd clip successful 5 years, successful town, that the freeway's flooded out," helium noted. "We recovered ourselves connected the incorrect broadside of the town and we couldn't get backmost past nighttime and couldn't adjacent get backmost to the location this greeting successful time."
Costner said that "nobody's sadder than america that we can't beryllium determination astatine the Golden Globes," adding that his woman "had a beauteous dress. I looked guardant to walking down the reddish carpet with her." He besides said Christine bought him "some golden and yellowish and achromatic and metallic balloons."
The actor went connected to convey the formed and unit of Yellowstone for his Golden Globe, which marks his 3rd overall. He besides shared a abstracted message of gratitude connected Instagram, writing, "Thank you to the Hollywood Foreign Press and @goldenglobes for this tremendous grant and to the @yellowstone squad for bringing John Dutton's satellite to life. I stock this designation with my castmates, the producers, and our unthinkable crew. Most of all, convey you to our show's fans, who emotion Yellowstone Ranch arsenic if it were their own."