“I thought it was a sketch”: 3 years ago, when Will Smith went to his siege to an Oscar, this producer did not understand what was going on at all

In February 2022, the 94th Oscar ceremony was particularly marked by an incident that no one had forgotten. After Chris Rock’s joke, Jada Pinket Smith’s wife, Will Smith’s wife, jumped out of her place, went on stage and struck a humor before she returned.

The episode, which, of course, had no one expected and, of course, not the producer of the ceremony. Before he had just been In the microphone of the Ture showPacker returned to this memorable moment, starting to explain that he first thought about the improvised sketch between the two actors:

“I was 100%sure”

“(…) It was Rock, and if there is someone who is comfortable improvisation, this is it. And Will Smith too, they can do everything “He said before describing the scene in more detail.

“The Oscar -sighted ceremony is such a spectacle that you have to repeat it several times, you are rehearsing costumes with all the stars, etc. He got up and he came out of the script almost immediately, but it was funny. Long before he published a joke about Jada, he left others, and I said to myself, “No problem, it was Chris Rock, who creates Chris rock.” Then, when it happened and it went out on stage, I was 100% sure they had planned to tell me about it and I told myself that it would be paid.

“I thought it was a sketch”

Will Packer continues to explain that he did not understand what was happening until Will Smith returned to his place and heard that Willie had heard the villain of Chris Rock:

“I thought it was a sketch that he didn’t really hit him and that was what we were going to pay for. I just told myself that it wasn’t funny. Where is the gag? (…) Once it happened, we returned to the image. This was the only solution because all other viewers were terribly scared. So we went back to him and it was when he made his statement that everyone said to himself, “Oh, he’s serious.”

He returned to the stage a little later to win his Oscars for the best actor, apologized for Will Smith, and then resigned from the academy (from which he was officially excluded for 10 years).