Spike Lee has apologized after slipping up and announcing the top winner at this year's Cannes Film Festival. On Saturday, the director announced that had won the 2021 Palme d'Or, but he was supposed to reveal a different prize winner instead. «I have no excuses.
I messed up,» Lee said during a press conference, per Variety. «I'm a big sports fan. It's like the guy at the end of the game in the foul line, he misses a free throw, or a guy misses a kick.»«I messed up, simple as that.
I was very specific to speak to the people of Cannes and tell them that I apologize,» he added. «They said, 'Forget about it.'»Lee was the head of the jury for the festival this year, with Maggie Gyllenhaal, French actor Tahar Rahim, South Korean actor Song.
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