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As big of the 2023 Oscars, Jimmy Kimmel said helium has a program "if idiosyncratic comes up connected the signifier and slaps me"—just arsenic Will Smith did to presenter Chris Rock astatine the 2022 Academy Awards.
Academy Adds Oscars "Crisis Team" After Will Smith Slap
Oscars 2023 host Jimmy Kimmel is acceptable for thing to happen, including another imaginable slap.
Almost a twelvemonth aft Will Smith stormed onto the Academy Awards signifier and deed presenter Chris Rock in the look implicit a gag aimed astatine Jada Pinkett Smith, Kimmel said helium present has a program successful place if "somebody comes up connected the signifier and slaps me" arsenic well.
As helium explained successful an interrogation with The Hollywood Reporter published March 7, "Well, I size them up, and, if I'm bigger than they are, I bushed the s--t retired of them connected television."
The comedian jokingly added that if that idiosyncratic were to beryllium Dwayne Johnson, who is slated to contiguous astatine this year's ceremony, "I run."
This upcoming Oscars volition beryllium Kimmel's 3rd clip hosting the grant show. During his inaugural stint arsenic emcee successful 2017, Kimmel was witness to a large Academy snafu when La La Land was incorrectly named arsenic the Best Picture winner implicit Moonlight. The Jimmy Kimmel Live! host touched connected the headline-making gaffe successful his Oscars opening monologue the pursuing year, joking to nominees successful the audience, "When you perceive your sanction called, don't get up close away. Just springiness america a minute. We don't privation different thing."
So, however does Kimmel fertile the mix-up compared to the slap? "Yeah, we got knocked down the list," he quipped to THR. "It's disappointing successful a batch of ways. If you're gonna beryllium portion of a f--kup, it mightiness arsenic good beryllium the biggest f--kup ever. Being portion of the second-biggest f--kup doesn't transportation arsenic overmuch cachet."
But Kimmel isn't the lone 1 who is prepared for imaginable aboriginal fiascos. Bill Kramer, CEO of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, recently confirmed that a "crisis team" was enactment together after Smith's onstage confrontation with Rock "opened our minds to the galore things that tin hap astatine the Oscars."
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"We've tally galore scenarios," he explained successful a February interrogation with Time. "So it is our anticipation that we volition beryllium prepared for thing that we whitethorn not expect close present but that we're readying for conscionable successful lawsuit it does happen."
In the aftermath of the slap, Smith resigned from the Academy and issued a nationalist apology to Rock. "Jokes astatine my disbursal are a portion of the job, but a gag astir Jada's aesculapian information was excessively overmuch for maine to carnivore and I reacted emotionally," helium said successful a March 2022 statement. "I was retired of enactment and I was wrong. I americium embarrassed and my actions were not indicative of the antheral I privation to be. There is nary spot for unit successful a satellite of emotion and kindness."
Watch the 2023 Academy Awards Sunday, March 12, astatine 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT connected ABC and don't miss E! News the adjacent time astatine 11 p.m. for a afloat recap of the biggest Oscars moments.
