{"id":682305,"date":"2010-03-04T10:02:44","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T15:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=95431"},"modified":"2010-03-04T10:02:44","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T15:02:44","slug":"james-cameron-%e2%80%9cokay%e2%80%9d-with-sacha-baron-cohen%e2%80%99s-oscars-%e2%80%9cavatar%e2%80%9d-sketch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/682305","title":{"rendered":"James Cameron \u201cOkay\u201d With Sacha Baron Cohen\u2019s Oscars \u201cAvatar\u201d Sketch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Cameron has given Sacha Baron Cohen the green light to mock his Oscar-nominated blockbuster <em>Avatar<\/em> at the upcoming Oscars &#8212; despite organizers quick move to scrap the sketch over fears it would offend the director.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Avatar-100-Million-Weekend-500x280.jpg?resize=500%2C280\" alt=\"\" title=\"Avatar-100-Million-Weekend\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-90425\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-95431\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Borat<\/em> star had been tipped to present a trophy at this Sunday&#8217;s star-studded Academy Awards, but once producers saw the ideas for his sketch &#8212; which reportedly included the comic dressing as a blue-skinned female <em>Avatar<\/em> creature who proclaims she is pregnant with Cameron&#8217;s child &#8212; the skit was axed.<\/p>\n<p>Cameron, who is up for a Best Director prize, is adamant he will take any joke aimed at his film in good spirits.<\/p>\n<p>He tells E! Online: <em>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know anything about that&#8230; I don&#8217;t produce the Oscars. If they want to poke fun at Avatar (on) Sunday, that&#8217;s OK by me. The Oscars are a celebration of movies&#8230; even the gaffes and out of bounds stuff are all part of the fun.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/zDwkcTRj034ECy5CEQAxNY3rWWE\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/zDwkcTRj034ECy5CEQAxNY3rWWE\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/zDwkcTRj034ECy5CEQAxNY3rWWE\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/zDwkcTRj034ECy5CEQAxNY3rWWE\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Cameron has given Sacha Baron Cohen the green light to mock his Oscar-nominated blockbuster Avatar at the upcoming Oscars &#8212; despite organizers quick move to scrap the sketch over fears it would offend the director. The Borat star had been tipped to present a trophy at this Sunday&#8217;s star-studded Academy Awards, but once producers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2RuV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}