Neil Patrick Harris is just days away from taking the stage to host the Academy Awards and he has some magic tricks up his sleeve!
Access Hollywood's Shaun Robinson quizzed the showman and asked him to reveal which film he predicts will take home the award for Best Picture.
"Thankfully, I don't know the answer to that. I have my predictions," he told Shaun from inside the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on Wednesday. "I'll tell you something, I have a lot of predictions. I'm a magician and so I've made a lot of very specific predictions of which I will be talking about on the show. So at the end of the show, I'm gonna be revealing who my predictions are and we'll see how close I came, so I'm not gonna say who I think won lest I spoil the gag, but I'm guessing it's one of the nominated films. But, I like that it's not a shoe-in. Some years you kinda are pretty sure you know it's gonna be one movie and I think it could be between two or maybe even three."
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Shaun also asked NPH if he remembered who flubbed the "wickedly talented" Idina Menzel's name last year when introducing the singer/actress.
"John Travonsalatry," NPH smiled, intentionally mispronouncing John Travolta's name. "John is gonna be on the show. He's a presenter."
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But, can we expect John to poke fun of his "Adele Dazeem" mishap?
"You'd think that would be a good thing unless his team thinks that it's a really bad idea to mention that, in which case he'll just come out and say something lovely and regular," the actor told Shaun.
When prompted by Shaun, NPH could also recall five celebrities who jumped into Ellen DeGeneres' spontaneous selfie when she hosted the show in 2014.
"Brad Pitt, Lupita [Nyong'o], Bradley [Cooper], Lupita's brother and Meryl Streep," he listed.
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During an appearance on Ellen's talk show this week, he took the opportunity to ask her for Oscar hosting tips.
"She gave some good advice. She's so calm and she's so comfortable and it's hard to maintain that when there are so many pressures around a show like this and so it was fun to get to interact with her and hopefully take a little bit of that confidence with me in the show on Sunday," he told Shaun. "She said to have a lot of jokes ready and a lot of jokes ready to re-edit."
The star -- who has hosted the Emmys twice and Tonys four times -- also told Shaun he's going to read the audience and go with the flow depending on the vibe he's getting on the big night.
"You can get a sense very quickly whether the audience is into what you're doing or not and so you have all options of doing a bit before an introduction or just doing an introduction," he explained. "And, often times when you try to do too many jokes in a row, the viewing audience [and there are] the people that just want to see the show, and then other times if you vanish and it's just announce, announce, announce, they say, 'Well, who's hosting the show?' So, you're trying to find the balance there."
The 87th Oscars will air live on February 22 at 7 PM ET/4 PM PT on ABC.
-- Paige Feigenbaum
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