James Cameron's 'OK' With Sacha's Oscar 'Avatar' Bash

By PopEater Staff Posted Mar 4th 2010 06:55AM

Who knew that James Cameron was such a good sport? The 'Avatar' director says that he has no problem with skits poking fun at his kinda-sorta-successful movie this year at the Oscars, despite a story yesterday claiming Oscar producers yanked a Sacha Baron Cohen skit out of fear of upsetting Mr. Cameron. "If they want to poke fun at 'Avatar' Sunday, that's OK by me," Cameron told E! Online.

On Wednesday, New York Magazine's Vulture blog broke a story claiming a skit in which Baron Cohen would be dressed up as a blue 'Avatar' Na'vi was yanked from the upcoming Oscars broadcast, as the show's producers were worried it might upset one of the night's biggest guests. Apparently, the plan was to have co-presenter Ben Stiller as Sacha's Na'vi translator, but as the skit goes on, frustration between the two grows because Stiller isn't translating properly. It all culminates with Baron Cohen showing everyone that he/she is pregnant ... with James Cameron's baby.

Cameron tells E! that he had no knowledge of the skit or any decision to pull it.

"The Oscars are a celebration of movies... even the gaffes and out of bounds stuff are all part of the fun," he said.

After the skit was allegedly yanked, Baron Cohen's camp said that the 'Borat' and 'Bruno' mastermind would likely not go to the Oscars, instead saving himself a trip from London. But now that Cameron says he's cool with it, we wonder if it will be back on ... especially now that there's some buzz about a possible must-see moment.

But will that work?

"Do you do the skit even after people have read about it and know the punchline?" asks Todd Gold, Managing Editor of FanCast.com. "They may have to come come up with something new, but that shouldn't be hard. Hopefully Sascha Baron Cohen has more than one idea – and hopefully he and Ben Stiller will still make some fun of 'Avatar.'"

Tags: Avatar, james cameron, oscars, Oscars2010

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Thursday 04 March

By DrRobert

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What the hell dose your post have anything to do with the story at hand? You and all of the thousands of others just like you shouldn't be wasting everyone time by posting these stupid websites that NO ONE gives a rats ass about.

By ttrexxx

James cameron never had an original Idea in his life.

Friday 05 March

By jerk

Cameron can afford a few laughs at his expense.

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