One of many “Summer season of Soul” producers, Joseph Patel, is fuming over Chris Rock’s joke about him at Sunday evening’s Oscar ceremony.
Director Questlove, alongside producers Patel, Robert Fyvolent and David Dinerstein, scored the Oscar for Finest Documentary Characteristic through the present.
However their second was outshined by Will Smith slapping the soul out of Rock, 57, simply minutes earlier than the previous introduced the doc because the winner.
Because the foursome walked as much as settle for their statuette, the comic introduced them as “4 white guys.” Patel slammed Rock in a prolonged, now-deleted Twitter thread.
The producer began to say that he was “offended” with Smith, 53, for having “robbed” the class of its second and Rock was for the disrespectful joke. He stated the introduction seemingly erased his accomplishments as a South Asian-American.
Patel additionally wrote that he was “nonetheless kind of processing” the altercation between Smith and Rock.
“As soon as we realized the Chris Rock/Will Smith interplay wasn’t a bit, all the things obtained turned the other way up. Everybody was nonetheless attempting to make sense of it when Chris persevered and began to learn the nominees,” he stated.
“I feel what Will did was egocentric. It robbed the class of its second. It robbed the opposite glorious and superb movies of their second to be acknowledged in what was a STRONG yr for docs. And it robbed ‘Summer season of Soul’ and our staff of our second. Of a loud, enthusiastic cheer for a celebrated movie,” the filmmaker added.
Patel famous that he and his collaborators “have been in shock strolling to the stage — not due to profitable however as a result of we, too, have been nonetheless attempting to make sense of what occurred. Then Will hugs [Questlove] and daps me up. I didn’t even comprehend it was occurring within the second. Nonetheless in shock.”
Whereas Patel acknowledged that Questlove dealt with the controversial second with ease, he didn’t absolutely hear and comprehend what Rock was saying as they walked as much as the rostrum.
“What I didn’t hear in that second strolling to stage however was informed of afterwards is what Chris Rock stated when studying our title from the winner’s card — the winner is Summer season of Soul…Ahmir ‘Questlove’ Thompson and…4 white guys.’ WHAT IN THE ACTUAL F—?????” Patel tweet-screamed.
“The rationale that makes me SO SO VERY ANGRY is as a result of I used to be so proud to be certainly one of a handful of South Asians to have ever gained an Oscar within the historical past of the award. I used to be ecstatic that I used to be the third South Asian to win that evening — after [Riz Ahmed] and Aneil Karia gained earlier within the evening for ‘The Lengthy Goodbye.’ Three South Asians profitable on the identical evening — that’s by no means occurred earlier than! And it’s significant! It’s historical past!” he continued in his rant.
He additionally stated that Rock’s joke was additionally inaccurate as there have been three producers, not 4. Questlove directed the function whereas Patel, Fyvolent and Dinerstein produced.
Despite the fact that Patel declared that he “can take a joke” however “not in that second.”
He went on, “What a sh–ty, disrespectful factor to do. AND HERE’S THE THING…. It wasn’t that Chris Rock was beneath stress. He made the identical joke the evening earlier than on stage on the Roots Jam!”
“[I’m] offended at Will Smith. Indignant at Chris Rock. Indignant for me. Indignant for Ahmir. Indignant for my fellow filmmakers.”
He concluded his ideas by exclaiming that he gained’t have the ability to watch the ceremony once more. “Thanks, Chris — you absolute f—ing d–okay.”
“What each Will AND Chris did actually stained what ought to have been a phenomenal second for us,” Patel stated.
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