At the Los Angeles Oscar ceremony this year, John Cena performed a sketch in which he was entirely nude, and the crowd went crazy over it.

The amusing skit, which Cena did alongside host Jimmy Kimmel, took place just before Cena was scheduled to give

the Best Costume Design award, for which Poor Things, Oppenheimer, Barbie, Napoleon, and Killers of the Flower Moon were the finalists.

‘Can you imagine if a nude man ran across the stage today?” Kimmel said to the audience. Would that not be absurd’

The comedian was making a reference to the 1974 Academy Awards event in which a streaker dashed across the stage.

Cena said, ‘I changed my mind,’ as he peered behind the curtain in response to Kimmel’s joke. I’m not up for the streaker part.

It doesn’t feel right to me. You know, this is a classy affair, and you ought to be ashamed of yourself right now for making such a crude joke.’

The WWE star went on, ‘The male body is not a joke.’

In the end, Cena managed to squeak onto the stage and give the winner, Poor Things, the aforementioned trophy.

It seemed as though the only thing keeping him modest was the envelope holding the winning nominee.

Following the skit, Cena was discovered to have skin-painted underwear hidden behind the envelope in a social media post.

One X user commented, ‘He’s actually wearing skin-painted underwear.’ ‘Excellent work from the makeup team.’

That is quite disheartening! Go all in, in my opinion! or all out!’ said a second. ‘It’s likely that he wanted to but was informed they couldn’t.

It goes without saying that Cena’s ‘naked’ presence at the 96th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theater created quite a commotion, and many people commented on it online as well.

Despite not receiving an Oscar nomination this year, Cena did feature in a brief role in the well-liked 2023 film Barbie.

It’s interesting that the 46-year-old just disclosed that, before the film’s enormously successful premiere, he had been told not to accept a role in it.

Several weeks ago, Cena stated on the Howard Stern Show, ‘The agency is just going on what they know.’

And they are aware that we ought to stay in this lane because this thing, this commodity, gravitates toward these things.

However, I’m not a product. As a human, I live by the philosophy that every opportunity is a good opportunity,’ he continued. ‘I believe the agency’s point of view was that this is beneath you.’

To the agency’s credit, though, they gave in right away, and I said, ‘No, we’re going to carry it out.’