SEEDINGS AGAINST HIM FOR VIOLATIONS OF STANDARDS OF CONDUCT, FOR MORE I'M HAPPY TO WELCOME THE CANADIAN PRODUCER AND DIRECTOR HE WON THE ACADEMY AWARD FOR PRODUCING SHAPE OF WATER THAT ONE BEST PICTURE IN THE 90th ACADEMY AWARDS GREAT TO HAVE ON THE PROGRAM THANK OF HER BEING HERE. >> A MORNING THINK YOU WERE HAVING ME, I CAN SAY I HAD TWO INTERESTING EXPERIENCES AT THE ACADEMY AWARD. [ Laughter ] >> Jennifer: WHICH ONE WAS THE HIGHLIGHT? >> I SAY THE FIRST ONE IS THE HIGHLIGHT WITHOUT A DOUBT, CERTAINLY THE OTHER NIGHT WAS PRETTY REMARKABLE IN MANY WAYS. >> Jennifer: SO TELL ME WHAT WAS YOUR INITIAL REACTION? I THINK PEOPLE WERE SHOCKED AND STUNNED AND THOUGHT IT MIGHT BE A GAG LIKE A SET UP THE OR SCRIPTED? BUT THEN IT CLEARLY WASN'T. >> DEFINITELY UNTIL WILL CAME AND LEFT THE STAGE THEY DEFINITELY THOUGHT IT WAS A GAG WITHOUT A DOUBT. AND THEN WHEN YOU KNOW, CHRIS SAID WHAT HE SAID AND WELL STARTED YELLING IT WAS QUITE OBVIOUS IT WASN'T AND I WILL TELL YOU, EVERY SINGLE OUNCE OF ENERGY -- EVERY OUNCE OF AIR CAME OUT OF THE ROOM AT THAT MOMENT. THEY GOT VERY QUIET. I WAS ABOUT 30 FEET AWAY FROM WELL, RIGHT BEHIND BRADLEY SO IT WAS JUST REALLY DISTURBING FRANKLY AND YOU WONDER WHAT HAPPENED AND IT PERSISTED FOR A WHILE AND THEN DURING THE COMMERCIAL BREAK IT WAS WELL REPORTED THAT DENS ALLEN TYLER PERRY AND BRADLEY IN A NUMBER OF PEOPLE WENT TO TALK TO WILL AND TRY TO FIGURE OUT WHAT WAS GOING ON AND CONSOLE HIM I GUESS AND UNDERSTAND, I JUST HEARD THIS MORNING YOU KNOW THERE HAS BEEN SOME REPORTING THAT THE ACADEMY HAD ASKED HIM TO LEAVE, IT TURNS OUT THAT WAS SORT OF UNOFFICIAL WEATHER SOME FROM THE ACADEMY MIGHT HAVE TALKED TO HIS PUBLICIST OR SOMETHING I DON'T KNOW BUT HE WASN'T OFFICIALLY ASKED TO LEAVE. >> Jennifer: HE WASN'T OFFICIALLY ASKED TO LEAVE, YES, I WANT TO ASK BECAUSE THE PRODUCER WAS TOLD HE COULD STAY AND I THINK IT WAS A BIG QUESTION OF THE TIME LIKE YOU KNOW, WHY WASN'T HE ESCORTED OUT RIGHT? WHY WAS HE ALLOWED TO STAY? AND THEN TO JIM CARREY'S POINTS, PEOPLE KIND OF GAVE HIM A STANDING OVATION AS IT WERE, WITH THE BENEFIT OF HINDSIGHT AND KIND OF NOW UNDERSTANDING IT WAS TOTALLY WRONG WHAT HE DID, BUT I AM JUST CURIOUS THE ACADEMY'S RESPONSE, DO YOU THINK THEY HANDLED IT WELL? >> NO I DON'T, I ALSO THANK IT IS SUCH A ONE-OF-A-KIND SITUATION THAT THERE IS REALLY NO PLAYBOOK ON HOW TO HANDLE IT WHEN IT COMES DOWN TO IT YOU CAN'T REALLY BE READY FOR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, I KNOW THERE WAS DISCUSSIONS WITH THE GOVERNORS AND THE PRODUCERS I SAW WILL -- I SOUGHT THEM TALKING TO WILL SMITH DURING THE BREAK, I THINK THEY WERE JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT WAS THE RIGHT THING TO DO? WILL SMITH WAS A LOCK FOR THE BEST ACTOR AWARD SO THEY KNEW THAT WAS COMING AND I WAS NOT A SURPRISE TO ANYBODY, I THINK THERE WAS JUST A LOT OF CONFUSION AND I THINK NOW THEY ARE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT IN THE AFTERMATH OF THAT WHAT TO DO. ARE THEY GOING TO KICK THEM OUT OF THE ACADEMY, MAYBE, WILL HE SUSPEND HIM, WITH THAT EVEN MEAN, WITH A TAKE AWAY AS OSCAR? ALMOST CERTAINLY NOT, THEY KICKED HARVEY WEINSTEIN OUT OF THE COMMITTEE -- ACADEMY AND WHEN THEY KICKED OUT ROHAN POLANSKY DIDN'T TAKE HIS FOR THE PIANIST SO I DOUBT THAT IS IN THE CARDS. THE FACT IS IT WAS A VERY UPSETTING MOMENTS AND I THINK HE CONTINUED TO MAKE BAD DECISIONS THAT NIGHT IN TERMS OF THE NATURE OF HIS SPEECH WHICH WAS NOT GREAT AND THEN BEING OUT PARTYING AND DANCING AND PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE YOU KNOW GONE HOME. I THINK A LOT OF THAT HAS NOT SAT WELL WITH OUR COMMUNITY, OR WITH THE BLACK COMMUNITY SO I THINK EVERYONE IS SORT OF ON EDGE WONDERING WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN AND WHAT THE CONSEQUENCES MIGHT BE A FIVE I'M ALSO THE TIME THAT WANT TO GET YOUR THOUGHTS ON CHRIS ROCK AND HOW HE HANDLED IT, HE HELD HIS COMPOSURE! >> HE REALLY DID, I THINK PEOPLE WERE IMPRESSED WITH CHRIS ROCK. [ Laughter ] LOOKED, IT WASN'T GREAT JOKE MAYBE IF HE HAD COME UP WITH A BETTER JOKE YOU COULD'VE AVOIDED THE WHOLE THING, BUT I THINK PEOPLE DID FEEL LIKE HE HANDLED IT, I THINK HE WAS CERTAINLY SHOCKED, HE WAS HAVING A HARD TIME GETTING TO THE REST OF THE INTRO YOU ALWAYS FILL BAD FOR QUEST LOVE AND WHAT HAPPENED WITHOUT AWARD YOU KNOW, HOW IT WAS MINIMIZED WITH THAT MOMENT IN THE MOMENT WAS STOLEN, I THINK CHRIS ROCK DID HIS BEST TO DIFFUSE IT AND WHEN AMY SCHUMER CAME OUT AND SAID I'VE BEEN GETTING ON MY SPAMMING COSTUMED I MISS ANYTHING? THAT WAS THE FIRST LAUGH THAT SORT OF LET THE ROOM BACK INTO BREATHE. I HAVE TO SAY IT WAS REALLY ONE-OF-A-KIND AND IT WAS AN UNFORGETTABLE NIGHT FOR ALL KINDS OF REASONS. >> LEAD APPRECIATE YOUR PERSPECTIVE AND FOR COMING ON THE PROGRAM. >> PRIDE OF OUR CANADIAN ARTIST TO ONE AWA
