Oscars show-runner says Chris Rock did not want Will Smith ‘physically removed’
msn.comChris Rock did not want Will Smith to be “physically removed” from the ceremony after he stormed the stage to slap the comedian, according to an Oscars show-runner.
US film producer Will Packer told Good Morning America that Rock had not wanted to “make a bad situation worse” and that he had spoken to a representative of the Academy on behalf of the stand-up.
It comes after the Academy, which organises the Oscars, said that Smith had been asked to leave the ceremony after the star-studded event but had refused.
Appearing on the US show, Packer said: “Shayla (Cowan, co-producer) told me that they were about to physically remove Will Smith and I had not been a part of those conversations. “So I immediately went to the Academy leadership that was on site and I said, ‘Chris Rock doesn’t want that’. “I said, ‘Rock has made it clear that he does not want to make a bad situation worse’.
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