Community director Jay Chandrasekhar has make clear the 2012 incident by which Chevy Chase used the N-word on the set of the present and the following fallout of the information leaking to the press.
Within the upcoming CNN documentary I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not (through PEOPLE), Chandrasekhar spoke about being “there, directing, the evening that Chevy Chase acquired fired from Group” and the actor’s subsequent “meltdown” after the information was leaked to The Hollywood Reporter.
“I do know that there was a historical past between [Chevy and Yvette Brown] round race, and he or she acquired up and stormed out of there,” stated Chandrasekhar. “Chevy storms off, so the producer is like, ‘We’d like Yvette within the scene, proper?’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, she’s within the subsequent scene.’ And he goes, ‘Nicely, she gained’t come out except Chevy apologizes to her.’”
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When Chase returned to the set, nevertheless, he feigned innocence and claimed that he “didn’t say something” to Brown.
“He goes, ‘You already know, me and Richard Pryor, I used to name Richard Pryor the N-word, and he used to name me The Honky, and we liked one another,’” Chandrasekhar recalled Chase saying. “And I’m like, ‘I do know, man, I like that bit.’ I stated, ‘You already know, can we simply have a bit of apology?’ He goes, ‘For what?’”
After filming wrapped, THR printed a narrative a few “racial incident” on the set, Chandrasekhar added. This led to Chase’s “full meltdown” upon the forged’s return to manufacturing.
Chandrasekhar stated Chase got here “storming onto the set, and he goes, ‘Who fucked me over?’ … ‘My profession is ruined! I’m ruined!’ Like, it’s a full meltdown. ‘Fuck all of you!’” The director added that Chase “by no means ended up coming again after that.”
Manufacturing of Group was halted after the incident, and Chase reportedly was compelled to situation an apology. On the time, THR’s report acknowledged that Chase used the N-word whereas expressing frustration with the route of his character, Pierce Hawthorne, throughout a scene with Brown and Donald Glover, although he didn’t direct the slur at them personally.
Nonetheless, Glover later opened as much as The New Yorker in 2018 about Chase’s history of racism on the Group set. This included Chase allegedly telling Glover, “Individuals suppose you’re funnier since you’re black.”
For his half, Chase advised CBS Sunday Morning in 2022 that he “[doesn’t] care” that his former castmates on Saturday Night time Reside and Group hated working with him.
Regardless of this declare, Chase confesses within the documentary that he was hurt by being neglected of the SNL fiftieth anniversary celebration earlier this yr.
I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not is out on January 1st.
