After Will Smith and Chris Rock on stage incident at the 2022 Oscars, the comedian did not “want to make a bad situation, worse.”
Oscars producer Will Packer spoke out about the aftermath of the incident in his first interview with Good morning America following the events of the March 27 show.
“Once Rock left the stage after presenting the award for Best Documentary Feature after being slapped by Smith following a joke made about his wife, Jada, he was approached with options on how to handle the situation which included having LAPD remove Smith to which Rock declined and advocated for the actor to stay.” Parker said.
Parker stated that Rock had the ability to have Smith removed after the onstage slap.
“The LAPD made it clear: ‘We will do whatever you want us to do and one of the options is that we will go and arrest him right now.'”
”The LAPD came and needed to talk to Chris. And so, they came into my office, and they were laying out very clearly what Chris’ rights were, and they were saying, ‘This is battery. We will go get him. We are prepared. We’re prepared to get him right now. You can press charges. We can arrest him.”
“As they were talking,” he continued. “Chris was—he was being very dismissive of those options. He was like, no, I’m fine.”
Adapted from E news.
