Choosing between A-listers to chat up must be very hard

Feb 23, 2015 16:06 GMT  ·  By

Being frontline on the red carpet at a major awards show must be difficult, because you have to move quick to secure interviews, while surrounded by a crowd of screaming publicists and photographers, and celebrities whose patience is wearing thin.

Ryan Seacrest managed to snub Naomi Watts on the red carpet at the Oscars 2015, which took place last night at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, with the entire awkward moment captured on camera.

The video has gone viral since it aired on TV, and you can see it in the Vine below.

The brunette woman screaming at Ryan that she “has Naomi” must be the actress’ publicist, eager to help her through the customary interviews on every red carpet. He, however, ignores her (or simply doesn’t hear her) and reaches out for Miles Teller, star of the critically acclaimed “Whiplash” and of the upcoming “Insurgent.”

Naomi eventually got to do the Seacrest interview, but many people online are still confused that he would choose a relative unknown (Teller has had high profile roles before, but they’re peanuts compared to Naomi’s career) over an actual A-lister and a red carpet fixture.

Then again, Naomi probably didn’t even mind it all that much: she’s a pro and she knows how these things work. As you can see in the snippet before, it was chaos on the red carpet, so Seacrest’s only fault is that he’s probably a little hard of hearing.