Packer also defended the audience for giving Smith a standing ovation just minutes after he slapped Rock across the face Sunday night.
Oscars producer Will Packer defended the standing ovation Will Smith received for his Best Actor win and said the actor aimed to make the tense situation “better” with his acceptance speech.
“It wasn’t like this was somebody they didn’t know. Doesn’t make anything he did right or excuse his behavior at all,” Packer saidFriday, “but I think the people in that room stood up stood up for somebody that they knew, who was a peer, who was a friend, who was a brother, who has a three-decades-plus career of being the opposite of what we saw in that moment.
“I don’t think that they were people applauding anything about that moment. All these people saw their friend at his absolute worst moment and were hoping they could encourage him and lift him up and he would somehow make it better.”apologized to everyone — except Rock“All these people saw their friend at his absolute worst moment and were hoping they could encourage him and lift him up and he would somehow make it better,” Packer said.
Despite thinking Smith’s on-stage apology made the situation “truly better,” he admitted that the slap ruined the night. “[The energy] was sucked completely out of it,” Packer said. “It was like someone poured concrete in that room. It was this feeling of what just happened? Is this real? How am I supposed to react, so it sucked the life out of that room and it never came back.”
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