Star hanging by a thread

THE Oscars’ most infamous bloopers have included Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway reading off the wrong Best Picture winner in 2018, and Jennifer Lawrence’s infamous trip to the podium five years earlier.

But another major mishap was saved just 18 seconds before airing live last year.

“I was wearing a stunning dress that had a halter clasp at the neck,” Beanie Feldstein reveals in W Magazine’s new Pop & Fall Fashion Issue of being an Academy Awards presenter during an ill-timed wardrobe malfunction. “The gown had boning and a sort of shelf for the bust, but there was no bra involved.”

The star — who plays Monica Lewinsky in the upcoming, “Impeachment: American Crime Story” — recalls, “I’m all about representation, and I’m here to represent big, low-hanging Jewish breasts . . . The halter on the dress was struggling. It was hanging on for dear life. There was a countdown clock backstage, and there was a minute and 20 seconds left before I had to go on in front of an audience of millions.”

She says of her Oscars moment: “I was nervous and accidentally stepped on the front hem of my dress, and with that step, the clasp gave way. At that point, there was 18 seconds to go.” But before the snafu became public, “Luckily, someone backstage had a safety pin and reclasped me, but I almost flashed the entire world that night . . . The moral of this story is, I’m a busty, lowhanging Jewish girl, and you have to be who you are. Which means no more halters.”

The breakout star, and sister of Jonah Hill, said of putting herself in Lewinsky’s shoes during the 1998 political sex scandal: “I’m queer, so I don’t know if I’d flirt with the president, but who knows? When Clinton shined his light on you, there was no better feeling in the world. It wouldn’t matter if you were male, female, nonbinary, queer. When that man put his spotlight on you, the world fell away. And if I was 22 and the most powerful person in the world focused his high beams on me, I would probably do the exact same thing as Monica.”