“We’ve been holding onto [Eminem's performance] for a while,' Oscars co-producer Lynette Howell Taylor tells PEOPLE
midway through the show — and a producer for the show tells PEOPLE how it came about, 18 years after the rapper won for Best Original Song.
The producers wanted to make a show about “impact” and wanted to include the impact of music, says Oscars co-producer Lynette Howell Taylor. “So we reached out [to Eminem] to see if that was something he might want to be involved in,” Taylor continues. “He said yes.”“It was nice that we surprised people — we don’t usually get to surprise anybody in this day and age!” she says.RELATED: Eminem Makes Surprise Oscars Appearance to Perform ‘Lose Yourself’: ‘Sorry It Took Me 18 Years’
“We feel really happy,” Taylor adds of how the production teams feels about the Oscars this year. “I’m so happy about all the winners, it’s an incredible group of winners, and the performances killed it. I’m just thrilled.”introduced a segment that looked through some of the most iconic Best Original Song winners and ended on a scene from Eminem’s , the 47-year-old rapper appeared on stage for an energetic rendition of “Lose Yourself” from the movie.
Although the track was nominated in 2003, Eminem skipped the ceremony that year, instead spending the evening dozing at his home in Michigan with the TV tuned to cartoons for his daughter, Hailie, the
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