Sep 11
Watch: Patti LuPone Goes on 'Hot Ones Versus' and Throws Some Spicy Shade at Madonna
Kilian Melloy READ TIME: 1 MIN.
Patti LuPone showed them how it's done on a recent appearance on the talk show "Hot Ones Versus," where celebrity guests face off over a platter of increasingly piquant chicken wings while their scene partners turn up the heat on prepared questions.
Vulture reported that the Broadway legend didn't flinch from devouring a hot-sauce drenched chicken wing – or from eating Madonna's lunch when she served up a scorching assessment of the Queen of Pop's acting abilities.
Aubrey Plaza joined LuPone on the segment, marking a reunion after the two got to know each other while filming the upcoming MCU series "Agatha All Along." LuPone fired the initial volley, reading text that recalled the two actors had lived together for a time and asking what Plaza had found her "most annoying habit" to be.
Plaza (perhaps wisely) said that LuPone had none, but later in the episode she read from a card that directed LuPone "to either 'look into the camera and apologize'" to Madge "for calling her a 'movie killer' or eat a very spicy wing," Vulture relayed.
LuPone's zeal matched that of the fiery appetizers as she "look[ed] into the camera and [tore] into the wing with gusto, then [threw] away the bone," the magazine recounted.
Then LuPone provided the next course: a verbal takedown of The Material Girl's acting chops.
"There's just some things some people can't do," LuPone declared, "and you just got to admit you can't do it, that's all. Or don't even try it."
Watch Plaza and LuPone tackle the spicy challenge below.
Kilian Melloy serves as EDGE Media Network's Associate Arts Editor and Staff Contributor. His professional memberships include the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, the Boston Online Film Critics Association, The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association, and the Boston Theater Critics Association's Elliot Norton Awards Committee.