was caught in an incredibly uncomfortable encounter with the at the 2024 Awards.
After, the Prince of Wales – who is also the Bafta president – met with all the nominees backstage but made a blunder withMia McKenna-Bruce.
Flying solo after , he greeted rising stars , Ayo Edebiri, Sophie Wilde, and Mia as he confessed: ‘I haven’t yet watched your film.’
He then laughed as he added: ‘I think it looked like you had a lot of fun all the way through.’
This would be fairly innocuous but the ’s movie How To Have Sex is not ‘a lot of fun’ and instead a harrowing tale of sexual assault.
William’s mistake resulted in cringe-inducing looks from the young actresses he was speaking to, which quickly went viral on social media.
Prince William recovered from the awkward moment as he complimented the four women for their performances, even though he hadn’t watched the films which they had been nominated for.
‘The category was so strong, all of you – it was like who is going to pull this off?’ he said. ‘It was incredible. It was very close between all of you.’
Mia urged the Bafta President to watch her coming-of-age movie to which he replied: ‘I’ve got a lot of films to catch up on.
‘Normally I get quite ahead of the awards ceremony, I get to see quite a few of them. I haven’t managed to get that many through.’
The film’s synopsis gives little away but explains How To Have Sex as ‘Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday – drinking, clubbing and hooking up, in what should be the best summer of their lives.’
Kent-born Mia described it as ‘for young people in particular who are at this point in their lives of self-discovery’.
She said: ‘There’s a kind of expectation that you should just know what to do when it comes to losing your virginity or talking about consent, then you’re just left to figure it out on your own.’
Earlier in the evening, William had apologised for not confirming his attendance sooner, addressing the fact he hadn’t seen many of .
‘I’ve done the fewest I’ve ever done before, with my wife it’s been a bit – hopefully we’ll catch up,’ William told the chief executive of the Southbank centre Elaine Bedell.
William also – who became the face of another Scan**l as he referred to football as ‘soccer’.
Awkward conversations seemed to be the call of the evening at the Royal Festival Hall in as from reporter Colin Paterson.
Paterson’s Saltburn questioning left viewers enraged as he bizarrely asked the All of Us Strangers star about Barry Keoghan’s penis in the n**ed.n**ed dance scene.
