2022 Oscars lead producer Will Packer is providing new insight into the aftermath following the onstage incident between Chris Rock and Will Smith. See what else he had to say about the moment.
However, according to Packer, there were"conversations" surrounding asking Smith to leave, but he ultimately stepped in, citing Rock's earlier wishes."Shayla [Cowan] told me they were about to physically remove Will Smith," Packer recalled on GMA."I had not been a part of those conversations, and so I immediately went to the Academy leadership that was on site and I said, 'Chris Rock doesn't want that...
Packer also shared that Smith reached out to him the following morning with an apology, stating to the producer in part that it"should have been a gigantic moment for you" and that Smith"expressed his embarrassment."to Rock in a statement shared on March 28."I would like to publicly apologize to you, Chris," Smith wrote."I was out of line and I was wrong. I am embarrassed and my actions were not indicative of the man I want to be.
"It was such a huge moment and such a sad and disappointing moment -- that it wasn't something that we were going to come back from within that night, within this week," he said."I don't know when we'll come back, and [if] people will be talking about anything else other than the show."
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