Spike Lee credited late film critic Roger Ebert for standing behind 'Do the Right Thing' while calling out other 'motherf---ers in the press' who worried the film would start riots.
"Your husband was very crucial [in] my career. He was very crucial, 1989 in Cannes, to," Lee told a visibly emotional Chaz on stage at Toronto's Fairmont Royal York hotel, after she went off script and told a personal anecdote about the impact Lee, Jenkins, and festival head Cameron Bailey had on her as a Black woman.
After noting that "the film came out, there were no riots," Lee went on to explain his frustration with the way his project — about racial tensions that culminate in tragedy amid a long-standing feud between Italian-American and Black residents in Brooklyn — was received versus other more egregious and explicit movies.| Credit: Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty
"So the struggle still continues. It's not an even playing field. We gotta keep, keep getting on. And I remember, I know it was a long time ago and you should let some grudges go, but David Denby and Joe Klein wrote articles,saying, 'Hope to God that this film does not open in your neighborhood.' That this film,, will incite Black people to tear s--- up, to take to the streets like Detroit in '77 or Newark in 1968. So thank you everyone.
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