Golden Globes Host Nikki Glaser: This Year’s Films Were Tough for Moms

I’m so glad you mentioned Jason Segel, because he’s truly one of the nicest, warmest people. He’s beyond supportive.

He’s so kind. It was during a commercial break where everyone’s kind of talking and not even looking at the stage and I’m just standing out there kind of awkwardly waiting for us to come back from break. I felt so awkward even being out there, because I had just done the monologue and I’m like, They’re mad at me. I made fun of them. And I just un-blurred for a second. He was just like [thumbs up], and it was so sweet. I don’t think he’s there this year, but I’ll find someone. Ariana Grande is really encouraging too.

Have you watched all the nominated films? Is that a prerequisite when you’re going to host?

Yeah, I like to watch them, not just so I can have something to talk to the nominees about…if I’m going to make a joke about someone, I want to be able to actually give them a compliment either before it, or after it, that is actually coming from a sincere place. So I try to watch everything that I’m making fun of.

As we saw last year, nothing is mean-spirited. It’s all in good fun. So what did you love this year, because frankly I found so many of the nominated films depressing and weird.

I love director Joachim Trier, and his film, The Worst Person in the World, is my favorite movie, so when I saw Sentimental Value, I was just like, Oh, I hope this is as good. And I loved it so much. I’m so glad to see that nominated. Marty Supreme was just so fun. Timothée Chalamet commits so hard. And then I loved One Battle After Another so much, I saw that twice.

Wow.

Have you seen Song Sung Blue?

I loved Song Sung Blue! I was going to say, that and The Housemaid were the only two films I thoroughly enjoyed this year.…

I loved Song Sung Blue. I feel like Hugh Jackman got hugely snubbed. He had, like, 17 heart attacks in that movie, in all different flavors of them. He was so, so good. I’m glad that Kate Hudson is nominated for a Globe, but I felt like Hugh Jackman should have been as well. I thought that was an incredible movie and it should have been up for best picture. I don’t know, maybe people just couldn’t wrap their heads around the…it almost seemed like a parody or farce. People just thought it was a joke or something, but it’s so, so good.

And then what else? I love Pluribus [on Apple TV] so much. Oh, and I haven’t found a way to make this a joke, but we had Hamnet, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, and Die, My Love, which all show how hard being a mom is and how it drives you into psychosis, and it’s truly the most heartbreaking thing you’ll do in your human existence.