Fans praise Aubrey Plaza’s sexy SAG Awards 2023 dress amid co-star’s comment
Aubrey Plaza deserves a “White Lotus”-style vacation after this dress drama.
The actress was arguably the sexiest-dressed attendee on the SAG Awards 2023 red carpet Sunday, where she arrived wearing a metallic bronze Michael Kors gown with a high slit, crisscrossed straps and a skin-baring cutout in front that put her abs and underboob on display.
But when the cast of “The White Lotus” won the award for Best Ensemble in a Drama Series, viewers noticed Plaza, 38, appeared flustered and “annoyed” onstage.
At one point during the group’s acceptance speech, Jon Gries — who played Jennifer Coolidge’s character’s husband in Season 2 of the HBO hit — could be seen grabbing Plaza’s arm and whispering something into her ear, after which she frantically adjusted her dress and seemingly mouthed, “Jesus Christ.”
Fans were split on social media, with some wondering if Plaza had narrowly avoided a wardrobe malfunction and others accusing Gries of making her uncomfortable by commenting on her cleavage.
“Kinda feeling like Jon Gries didn’t need to do all that and make it a thing ON STAGE like she was fine, she looked hot,” one tweeted, adding, “I think Jon Gries made her paranoid when she had no reason to be because her dress looked fine.”
Chimed in another concerned commenter, “I think that actor said something to Aubrey that was f@@d up. I don’t think anything was wrong with her dress,” before congratulating her on her nearly overshadowed win.
Wrote a third, “death to that man that whispered to aubrey that her dress was falling down her chest because it actually wasn’t and that’s how it was supposed to look and she adjusted it anyways and was embarrassed.”
And a fourth blamed other male members of the “White Lotus” cast, writing, “Aubrey Plaza was upset because those dumb men weren’t making space for her and then one of them was being rude about her dress, like omg, let her be,” before summing it up with, “Men are annoying.”
But a fifth noted that Plaza might’ve been stressing about her dress since the start of the night, tweeting, “I know y’all want drama but to me it looked like Aubrey Plaza had a wardrobe malfunction and was trying to hide behind the guys, swore when they moved, and ran off the stage to fix it.”
Plaza accepted the award alongside co-stars F. Murray Abraham, Meghann Fahy, Theo James and Will Sharpe.
Earlier during the ceremony, the “Ingrid Goes West” actress presented an award alongside “Wednesday” star Jenna Ortega.
