It has become certain that comedian and presenter Jimmy Kimmel will present the Oscars 2023, which is one of the tasks that every actor, comedian, and media person on this planet has long desired, but it is quite the opposite this year, as it has been described as one of the least desirable jobs in the history of the Oscars.
Presenting the ceremony this year seemed to be rejected by many due to the slap of Will Smith, who won an Oscar, for last year’s presenter, Chris Rock, an issue that still occupies the international press, and does not stop talking about it to this day.
And Kimmel will have to deal with the situation with great caution, especially since the Academy Awards themselves have reached an all-time low in terms of ratings, due to this slap.
And it seems that Jimmy Kimmel will not allow such a thing to happen or anything to disturb the peace of the ceremony at least in the hour that he will present. When Kimmel was asked about this specifically, he answered with absolute honesty about the way he would deal with it if he went through a similar situation, threatening to hit anyone who tried to slap him, and in his unique comic way he said during his interview with The Hollywood Reporter: “If someone comes on stage and slaps me
? Well, I’m bigger than him, I’m in a higher position, and it would be easy to beat one of them. He continued, that people are wondering if there will be a problem this year? Stressing that he hopes that there will be no violence during the ceremony.
Able to deal with difficult situations
The Will Smith and Chris Rock incident was not the only embarrassing situation in the history of the Academy Awards. The ceremony that took place in the year 2017 witnessed an incident in which Jimmy Kimmel himself was the hero, as he announced the wrong name for the last award in the evening, but he managed Dealing with the matter in complete professionalism, and in the best way possible, prompting the academy to ask him to return to present the ceremony that followed in 2018.
By presenting the concert on Sunday, Kimmel joins a narrow list of only eight people who have presented the ceremony more than twice in history.
