*A brand new documentary brings recent particulars concerning the racial controversy that ended Chevy Chase’s time on “Group,” with director Jay Chandrasekhar offering his account of the heated on-set confrontation.
As EW stories, the battle erupted throughout filming of a storyline that includes a “blackface hand puppet” and Chase’s character, Pierce Hawthorne. In CNN Movies’ upcoming documentary “I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not,” Chandrasekhar defined that Chase made a remark to co-star Yvette Nicole Brown that he didn’t personally overhear, however the response was swift. “I do know that there was a historical past between [Chevy and Yvette] round race, and she or he obtained up and stormed out of there,” he stated.
Filming got here to a halt when Brown refused to return with out receiving an apology. Chase refused to apologize and as a substitute invoked his previous relationship with comic Richard Pryor, stating: “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 cherished one another,’” in keeping with Chandrasekhar.
The scenario intensified after The Hollywood Reporter revealed particulars about Chase utilizing the N-word whereas questioning his dialogue, although the slur wasn’t geared toward Brown or Donald Glover regardless of their presence. Chandrasekhar described Chase’s on-set meltdown that adopted, with the actor shouting, “Who f—ed me over?” and declaring, “My profession is ruined! I’m ruined!” Chase by no means returned to shoot extra scenes. He ultimately apologized and left after season 4.
Brown addressed the scenario on Instagram earlier than the documentary’s launch, writing, “These are issues I’ve by no means spoken of publicly and maybe by no means will,” and including, “In East Cleveland communicate: Maintain my identify out of your mouth.”
“I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not” debuts January 1 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CNN.
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