'Batkid' Segment Cut From Oscars - 'Spiderman' Star Takes Him to Disneyland Instead
The little boy who won over a nation as "Batkid" was supposed to be a part of the Oscars on Sunday night, but his segment was cut short. "The Amazing Spiderman" star Andrew Garfield, who was due to star in the segment with Batkid, instead went on a trip to Disneyland with the younger star.
"Due to the nature of a live show, hard decisions sometimes must be made which require the Academy to cut segments due to the logistics of production," the Academy said in a public statement after a fuss was raised about Batkid's segment being omitted. "Andrew Garfield understood that his segment had to be omitted, and he drove to Disneyland on Monday to spend time with 5-year-old Miles Scott (Batkid) and his family."
It was still devastating to the Scott family, who said that Miles had been looking forward to working with Garfield, another person playing a superhero.
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"We had gone all the way down there, and he went through the rehearsal and he had a fancy tux and was all ready for it," his mother, Natalie, told the International Business Times. "I don't know if they ran out of time, or if there was something about the segment that they didn't like. It got pulled so quickly that we didn't have a lot of insight into what was going on."
Some blamed Garfield for the mishap, and one source even said that Garfield refused to cooperate with the Academy for the segment. However, his publicist released a statement denying such claims.
"In full collaboration with the Academy and the show writer, Andrew prepared a segment for the Oscars to honor Miles Scott as the true hero that he is. At some point overnight on Saturday/Sunday morning, it was decided by those running the show that the segment didn't work in the ceremony. The producers arranged for Miles and his family to visit Disneyland on Monday and Andrew drove down to visit them and to bring Miles a personal gift. Andrew did the right thing for Batkid and anyone saying otherwise is flat out lying," the rep told Us Weekly.
