Adrien Brody shocked the Oscars audience when he tossed a piece of gum he was chewing towards his girlfriend of five years, Georgina Chapman, before delivering his best actor acceptance speech on March 2.
But apparently, the disgusting gesture was all the British 49-year-old’s idea.
‘I asked him to do it,’ Georgina confessed to Page Six last week.
‘I saw him standing there, I could see that moment of panic on his face. He was really like, “Wow, I shouldn’t be having gum.”‘
Chapman yelled ‘give it to me’ but failed to catch the sticky shrapnel from seven feet away inside the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.
‘I forgot I was chewing gum, and I can’t make a speech with gum in my mouth,’ the…