Oscars producer Will Packer first thought Will Smith slapping Chris Rock was 'a bit,' because Rock 'didn’t tell one planned joke.'
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's T.J. Holmes, which aired in full on Friday, Packer said he spoke to Rock just after the incident and asked,"Did he really hit you? And he looks at me and goes, ‘Yeah. I just got took a punch from Muhammad Ali. He was right away in joke mode, but you could tell that he was in complete shock."that he did not speak directly to Smith, and he initially thought the slap was staged like many viewers and audience members.
"I thought this was something that Chris and Will were doing on their own," he shared."I thought it was a bit. … We hadn’t practiced it.""I remember thinking, ‘Oh no. Not like this.’ … I’ve never felt as immediately devastated as I did in that moment.", to which he earned a standing ovation, Packer said,"The people in that room who stood up stood up for somebody that they knew -- he was a peer, a friend, a brother.
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