Roger Ross Williams didn’t get too far in his Oscar acceptance speech on Sunday, thanks to the hijinks of one Elinor Burkett. Williams and Burkett are both apparently feuding producers of the film “Music by Prudence” or something.
Burkett later explained the SHOCKING incident to Salon:
What happened was the director and I had a bad difference over the direction of the film that resulted in a lawsuit that has settled amicably out of court. But there have been all these events around the Oscars, and I wasn’t invited to any of them. And he’s not speaking to me. So we weren’t even able to discuss ahead of the time who would be the one person allowed to speak if we won. And then, as I’m sure you saw, when we won, he raced up there to accept the award. And his mother took her cane and blocked me. So I couldn’t get up there very fast.
She then explained that she is attention-starved.
The movie was my idea. I live in Zimbabwe. Roger had never even heard of Zimbabwe before I told him about this. And you know, I felt my role in this has been denigrated again and again, and it wasn’t going to happen this time.
(No Ratings Yet)
Loading ...
