Producer Molly McNearney explains how 2023's Oscars ceremony will address the Chris Rock and Will Smith slap controversy from the year prior.
A producer for the 2023 Oscars explains how the awards ceremony will address Will Smith's now-infamous slap. During the 2022 Oscars ceremony last year, Smith rose from the audience and slapped presenter Chris Rock on-stage after he made a joke about Jada Pinkett-Smith's shaved head, which stems from her alopecia diagnosis. Later that evening, Smith accepted the award for Best Actor, and used his speech to apologize to the Academy and to the other nominees for the outburst.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY At a press conference , Oscars executive producer Molly McNearney says that this year's awards will acknowledge the slap jokingly, but that the show won't focus too heavily on the incident. While McNearney says that there is the opportunity to make light of the incident, the Academy doesn't want the 2023 Oscars to be all about the previous year and its scandal.
"We’re going to acknowledge it, and then we’re gonna move on. We don’t want to make this year about last year. It’s certainly something we can and will address in a comedic fashion."How the Smith-Rock Slap Has Affected the Oscars While the Academy wants to only briefly acknowledge the slap, the Oscars' creative team has admitted that significant changes had to be made for this year's ceremony after last year's incident.
Alongside changes to the presenter lineup for the 2023 Oscars, the Smith-Rock slap also changed how the Oscars will operate as a live-television event. Kirshner has said that because of last year, the Oscars now has a full crisis team that will be responsible for responding to any unplanned incidents on the live broadcast.
Though Smith's slap isn't the first shocking event to happen on a major live television event, the incident has become synonymous with the 2022 Oscars, and has certainly changed audience expectations of the show going forwards. With a crisis team now in place, the Academy is in a better position to deal with unexpected incidents like the slap going forwards.
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