In case you missed it: Scenes from the Oscars

SCREEN CAPTURE

Ashley Graham, Jason Momoa and Lisa Bonet on the Red Carpet of the Oscars.

Thanks to Crazy Rich Asians' success and the #OscarsSoWhite movement, there were more Asians seen at the Academy Awards Sunday night. 

RELATED: Asian and Asian American Oscar winners.

Here are some additional notes from the Academy Awards that you might not have seen answers why Crazy Rich Asians star Constance Wu wore a yellow gown, the most embarassing question of the night, and how director Jon M. Chu saw the evening.

Let's get straight to the embarrassing question first. Model Ashley Graham was interviewing Jason Momoa and his wife Lisa Bonet and things were going great until Graham asked Momoa to perform a "haka move."

The Aquaman star was taken aback and looked to his wife as if to ask, "Really? Did she just ask me to do a haka?"

The haka is a Maori war dance traditionally used on the battlefield to intimidate the enemy, as well as when groups came together as a gesture of greeting or honor.

At the premiere of Aquaman, Momoa did perform a haka with Maori members of the cast because the film used a lot of Maori elements. Other Polynesian groups have adopted the  tradition and adapted it to their culture. The haka was a way for the Maori cast members to launch the movie. Momoa is of Hawaiian descent.

“I gotta get a haka move,” Graham asked Momoa.

“I gotta get like one haka move, like come on,” she continued insisted, as Momoa had that moment of disbelief.

However, Bonet was not having it. She was seen putting her hand up and shaking her head in as if to say it was not appropriate.

Good sport Momoa eventually gave in and gave a half-hearted haka face with his tongue stuck out. By then the interview was over and Bonet pulled on Momoa and was seen giving an eye-roll at the ignorant request from Graham.

The Internet didn't take kindly to the insensitivity of the moment.

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Constance Wu look smashing in her yellow gown. Her choice of color wasn't just to stand out from the crowd. She wanted to make a statement based on the moving letter CRA director Jon M. Chu wrote to Cold Play for the permission of using their song "Yellow" for the movie.

She wrote in an Instagram post:

"I chose this color because it made me happy and also was inspired by @jonmchu‘s moving letter to @coldplay about our movie’s closing song cover of “Yellow” in @crazyrichasians,"

Chu asked the band Cold Play why the song Yellow meant so much to him because while growing up, "yellow" was used as a racist slur to demean East Asians. But, upon hearing the song "Yellow" it was the first time the color was associated with beauty.

"For the first time in my life, it described the color in the most beautiful, magical ways I had ever heard: the color of the stars, her skin, the love. It was an incredible image of attraction and aspiration that it made me rethink my own self image," the letter continued. It immediately became an anthem for me and my friends and gave us a new sense of pride we never felt before. We could reclaim the color for ourselves and it has stuck with me for the majority of my life," Chu added.

Cold Play immediately gave permission for the song's use in the film. It was at the end of the movie as the credits rolled and sung in Mandarin by Katherine Ho.

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Speaking Jon M. Chu ... here are some posts from the Chinese American director, Awkwafina, Gemma Chan and Constance Wu taken at the awards ceremony or immediately after.

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