The Oscars Crisis Team is in place after slapping Will Smith

(CNN) The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences doesn’t want another incident like this Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars But they plan for the unexpected.

in Interview with Time magazineThere will now be a crunch team on hand for Hollywood’s biggest night, said Academy CEO Bill Kramer, calling it “something we’ve never seen before.”

“We have implemented many scenarios,” he said. “So hopefully we’ll be prepared for anything we might not expect right now but plan for just in case.”

During the 2022 ceremony, Smith walked on stage at the Academy Awards and slapped Rock, who was presenting at the time, after he made a joke about Smith’s wife’s shaved head.

Jada Pinkett Smith has alopecia areata, an autoimmune condition that can lead to hair loss.

will Smith I apologize laterbut the Academy has punished the actor before He was banned from attending the Academy Awards for the next ten years.

“Because of the past year, we’ve opened our minds to so many things that could happen at the Oscars. But these crisis plans — the crisis contact teams and the structures that we’ve put in place — allow us to say that this is the group we have to gather very quickly,” Kramer told Magazine. time.

“This is how we all meet. This is the speaker. This will be the statement,” he said. “And obviously it depends on the specifics of the crisis, and let’s hope something doesn’t happen and we never have to use it, but we already have frameworks in place that we can adjust.”

Jimmy Kimmel will host the 95th Academy Awards on March 12.