Corey Feldman Reacts To Exclusion From Rob Reiner Oscars Tribute: “It Is What It Is”

While many familiar faces from Rob Reiner‘s storied film career came together to pay tribute to the late director and his wife Michele during the 98th Academy Awards, one person was missing.

Corey Feldman, who starred in Reiner’s 1986 coming-of-age film Stand by Me, said “it is what it is” as he reacted to his exclusion from the onstage cast reunion with co-stars Jerry O’Connell and Wil Wheaton.

“I think Jerry and Wil did what had to be done,” he told Entertainment Weekly. “It was a fleeting moment, so I don’t feel like I missed much at all. I personally was probably maybe a little bothered by the fact that nobody got to speak or do or say anything from their own heart. Although they did a wonderful job, I would’ve liked to have heard from Wil and Jerry and a few other people up there.”

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