After participating in a celebration of the 30th anniversary of Bottle Rock on Monday, Wes Anderson found himself trapped in an elevator at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
The director was trapped in the elevator for roughly 30 minutes, alongside Luke Wilson producer James L. Brooks, before the Los Angeles Fire Department came to their aid.
Save Your Cinema claimed the elevator was “a secret passageway/elevator so celebrities can enter and exit without” at the Academy Museum, though The Hollywood Reporter was not able to confirm if Anderson had taken an alternative entrance not made available to the public.
Carolyn Dunn, a production specialist for 20th Century Fox, did, however, share a video of Anderson and Brooks exiting the elevator on Instagram. In the clip, Anderson can be heard asking the LAFD what went wrong, to which one official responded, “Probably had too much weight in there.”
“Okay, thank you very much,” Anderson replied.
