Glenn Close Tested Positive for COVID before 2023 Oscars, No Longer Presenting

Glenn Close needs prayers and a break.

The 2023 Academy Awards will no longer feature Glenn Close as a presenter because she tested positive for COVID, PEOPLE confirmed.

It would have been an Air Force One reunion for the 75-year-old actress and the 80-year-old actor Harrison Ford when they presented at Sunday night's Oscars event.

"Yes, she has COVID, and she is of course required to bow out," a representative for Close confirmed. "She was very much looking forward to taking part."

Ford and Close co-starred in the 1997 thriller about hijacking the president's (Ford) plane, which was nominated for eight Academy Awards and won one.

For the 1998 ceremony, Air Force One got two Oscar nominations: Best Sound and Best Film Editing.

2023 Oscars, Know more about the 'biggest night' in Hollywood

The biggest night for Movies will take place in the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood in Los Angeles and will be broadcast live on ABC and in more than 200 countries worldwide.

This year, Jimmy Kimmel is presenting for the third time, and Everything Everywhere All at Once, with 11 nominations altogether, has received the most nominations overall. (All Quiet on the Western Front and The Banshees of Inisherin, both of which received nine nominations, are included after it.)

Four of the five Best Original Song nominees will play live during the broadcast, and Lenny Kravitz will perform during the In Memoriam section.

Several A-list celebrities, including Nicole Kidman, Antonio Banderas, Ariana DeBose, Jessica Chastain, Samuel L. Jackson, Janelle Monáe, and John Cho, to mention a few, are anticipated to present honours.

On Sunday, March 12, 2023, at 8 p.m. ET, ABC will broadcast the 2023 Oscars live.