When they asked if Rock would like them to take action, he said no.ĮXCLUSIVE: #Oscars producer Will Packer tells what happened behind the scenes after actor Will Smith slapped host Chris Rock live on stage. “Even to the point where I said, ‘Rock, let him finish.'” We’ll arrest him.'”īut Packer says Rock was being “very dismissive” of those options, reiterating he was fine. LAPD officers came into Packer’s office and were “laying out very clearly what Chris’ rights are. Packer says that once he confirmed the physical assault, Rock insisted to him that he was fine. “I just took a punch from Muhammad Ali,” Packer says Rock joked, despite being “very much in shock.” When Rock walked offstage after presenting the best feature documentary Oscar (which went to Questlove), Packer confirmed with Rock that Smith had really hit him. I’ve never felt so immediately devastated like I did in that moment.” My heart was just in my stomach because of everything about it and what it represented and what it looked like and who was involved. “Chris was keeping his head when everyone else was losing theirs. And I just remember thinking, ‘Oh no, oh no.
“Once I saw Will yelling at the stage with such vitriol, my heart dropped. Even when he saw Smith come onstage, Packer says he, like everyone in the audience, assumed it was a bit. He was immediately freestyling,” says Packer of Rock. “He didn’t tell one of the planned jokes. Jane jab referencing her shaved head the actress has alopecia) was unscripted. Holmes, confirmed that the joke Rock made about Jada Pinkett Smith that spurred Smith to take the stage (a G.I. The first-time Oscars producer said that in the live moment he, too, thought Smith smacking Rock was a bit, until Rock came backstage and confirmed that he had really been hit by Smith, who would also go on to win the best actor trophy of the night to a standing ovation.įilm Academy Announces Student Academy Award Winners
The producer of the 2022 telecast sat down with Good Morning America for an interview airing five days after the show, in which he responded to swirling questions about why Smith wasn’t escorted out of the show following the onstage assault and shared his backstage conversations with Rock and the LAPD. Will Packer is shedding light on what happened behind the scenes at the Oscars after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock onstage in one of the most shocking moments in Academy Awards history.
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