19-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
Will Packer wants you to think like a Hollywood producer
In his new book, 'Who Better Than You? The Art of Healthy Arrogance & Dreaming Big,' Hollywood super-producer Will Packer has a Will Smith story to tell. It's just probably not the one you were expecting.
Packer, of course, famously co-produced the 94th Academy Awards, when Smith slapped comedian Chris Rock live onstage before returning to his front-row seat. The chaos that inevitably ensued backstage is not the stuff of Packer's Smith story. Instead, in 'Who Better Than You?' — part memoir and part manifesto about how to make it as a Hollywood outsider — Packer talks about how, in 1999, he sneaked into the ShoWest movie theater convention using a buddy's press pass.
