Diego Luna begs for help as Tiffany Haddish hits on him on late night

Diego Luna was completely unprepared for the intense, hilarious power of Tiffany Haddish’s flirting skills during their Jimmy Kimmel Live interview Tuesday night. 

The Andor star, who is guest-hosting the late night show this week, found himself getting increasingly flustered as the actress made unshakeable attempts to woo him throughout their chat — to the point where he even urged its house band, Cleto and the Cletones, to end the segment for him.

Haddish made her feelings toward Luna known from the get-go, cheekily (and falsely) claiming that he “asked me to be his baby mama” after he complimented her in Spanish.

“Not exactly!” Luna interjected following her translation. “Sadly, I do speak both languages.”

“You don’t want to be my novio [boyfriend]?” Haddish asked.

Trying to be a gentleman, Luna quickly responded, “I’m not allowed… No, no, no, I’m not doing that. Thank you very much.”

The actor later asked Jimmy Kimmel’s cohost, Guillermo, if they could set Haddish up on a date with someone they knew, but his well-intentioned plan backfired when she just used the opportunity to focus on their connection.

“I heard you single now,” she said, to which Luna replied, “No, I’m not. I’m not single at all. No.”
He added that he is in a “very important” relationship right now, much to Haddish’s chagrin.

“Oh, well, maybe it was a different dude,” she said, “because when I googled your name it said you was divorced and single.”

Luna confirmed that he is divorced but said “the single part is what’s not true.” Turning to Guillermo for help, he asked, “But we know many Mexicans to hook her up with, no?”

But Haddish squashed that. “I mean, I can find my own Mexican — don’t worry about it,” she said. “I can find my own.”

Luna attempted to reel Guillermo back into the conversation until she pointed out that the late night comedian is married. “I saw Guillermo on that boat butt naked, and I was like, ‘Ooh, Guillermo!'” Haddish cheered. “But then I had googled him and he married, so I don’t even wanna look at him no more. I don’t look at married men.”

To further accentuate her point, Haddish raised a brow and stared at Luna for a prolonged period of time. Turning to the band, Luna begged, “Cleto! This is the moment where you play a song or something! You get me out of this one somehow!”

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He then tried to escape Haddish’s flirting by telling her that his partner was somewhere in the audience. “I’m not gonna point at her because she’s not gonna feel great to…” he began, before looking into the crowd and pleading, “Can someone play my partner here?!”

Pointing at an audience member, Luna continued, “There you go! That is my partner.”

But that just gave Haddish more ammunition. “Why is there more than one woman saying they’re your partner?!” she yelled, causing a blushing Luna to sheepishly rub the back of his neck. “I want to be part of this harem! I didn’t know they had harems in Mexico!”

“It’s modern times, you know?” Luna cheekily fired back. “These open relations —”

Wrong move. “Oh, you got open relations?” Haddish asked, putting Luna on the back foot once again. 

“No, no, no!” he exclaimed, putting a hand to his forehead. “That’s not what I wanted to say! Sorry!”

But he wasn’t getting away that easily. “You said it, Diego!” she replied.

Exasperated, Luna continued, “Oh my God! I so need, like, commercials or something!”

But Haddish insisted that Luna had to stay in their interview no matter what.

“I am gonna stay in it,” he agreed, “and I’m very happy you’re here.”

Haddish made one final attempt to steal Luna’s heart by performing her very own rendition of the traditional Spanish folk song “De Colores.”

Luna praised her, uh, interesting take afterward. “Wow,” he said, “that was beautiful.”

Watch Haddish try to make the moves on Luna in the clip above.