The Olympics Opening Ceremony may have already won a gold medal for bad taste.
A skit in which Brazilian model Gisele Bundchen appears to be robbed by a black boy will reportedly be cut from the show.
One of the performances revealed during a dress rehearsal on Sunday featured a police chase after Gisele is apparently “accosted” by the young man, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. While the scene ends on a positive note, Fernando Alvares Salis, head of the communications department at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, said, “It's totally unacceptable.”
The creative director, Brazilian filmmaker Fernando Meirelles, called the press' representation of the scene a misunderstanding. He told the Post he was testing out a sketch in which a food vendor attempts to take a selfie with Gisele and security guards react. Then Gisele defends the vendor.
“It was a gag that was not funny so we cut it,” he said.
The Olympic organizing committee had told Agence France-Presse that “there is no robbery” without providing details.
While details of the ceremony were supposed to be kept under wraps at Sunday's run-through, word quickly spread about the controversial sketch.
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