Lin-Manuel Miranda ‘wouldn’t feel comfortable’ hosting Oscars

BROADWAY star Lin-Manuel Miranda doesn’t have any ambition to host the Oscars.

The 42-year-old actor has already rejected the opportunity to host the glitzy awards show, and can’t ever picture himself on hosting duties.

He shared: “I have said no in the past. I really don’t think that that’s my skillset. It’s not something I’m comfortable doing, hosting, mainly because I’ve been lucky enough to work with incredible hosts.”

Miranda has previously worked with the likes of Neil Patrick Harris and Hugh Jackman and doesn’t see himself following in their footsteps.

He said: “I’ve written for Neil Patrick Harris, I’ve written his opening numbers and closing numbers for the Tonys. That is a whole other thing. He is genius at that, he and Hugh Jackman.”

The theatre star admitted he “wouldn’t feel comfortable” hosting the Oscars.

Meanwhile, Ricky Gervais recently joked that he’d “get cancelled halfway through” hosting the Oscars.

The 60-year-old comedian has hosted the Golden Globes five times in a decade, but doubts he’d be allowed to bring his controversial sense of humour to the Oscars stage.

Gervais said: “They’d never let me do what I wanted. I mean, that’s why the Globes got me. They said I could write my own jokes and say what I wanted, no rehearsals.”