An academy spokesperson already explained Brad Renfro’s apparently accidental exclusion from the Oscars’ memorial montage, but TMZ reporters following Sweet Home Alabama actor and completely unrelated person Josh Lucas needed a conversational “in,” and that’s how we now know that Josh (who, in the course of researching this blog post, I learned was born “Joshua Lucas Easy Dent Maurer” wtf?) thinks Renfro’s exclusion was “a sad mistake.”

(No word on Lucas’ feelings about the exclusion of The Hudsucker Proxy‘s Anna Nicole Smith.)