(EFE).- Will Smith resigned Friday from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences amid the controversy over his on-stage slap of Chris Rock during the 94th edition of the Oscars.
Describing his actions at Sunday night’s gala as “shocking, painful and inexcusable,” the actor said that he was prepared to accept any additional sanctions that may emerge from disciplinary proceedings launched Wednesday by the Academy’s Board of Governors.
“The list of those I have hurt is long and includes Chris, his family, many of my dear friends and loved ones, all those in attendance, and global audiences at home,” Smith said in a statement.
Smith climbed onto the stage at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles after Rock, a comedian serving as a presenter, quipped that the actor’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, resembled the shaven-headed army recruit portrayed by Demi Moore in the film “G.I. Jane.”
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Pinkett Smith, herself an actor, suffers from alopecia, which causes hair loss.
Minutes after slapping Rock, Smith returned to the stage to accept the Best Actor Oscar for his performance in “King Richard” and he took the opportunity to apologize for his behavior, though without mentioning the comedian’s name.
“I want to put the focus back on those who deserve attention for their achievements and allow the Academy to get back to the incredible work it does to support creativity and artistry in film,” Smith, 53, said in explaining his decision to resign.
On a more personal note, he said that “change takes time and I am committed to doing the work to ensure that I never again allow violence to overtake reason.” EFE
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Will Smith needs to man up and quit being led by the nose by a woman who removed his manhood when she created the admitted open marriage by letting her 43 year old body have an affair with a 22 year old August Alsina. He should have thrown her out on her ear instead of submitting to her every instruction to attack an innocent comedian who only commented on her hairdo. Rock could have made a statement like “She has enough forehead,,,,for four heads”,,or “Did you lose all that hair in those hairpin turns about the headboard with your half-aged lover?” Surely there are plenty of women more worthy of Smith’s devotion who can calm the savage beast that apparently was born of an abused childhood. Love apparently is his drug of first choice, but this choice is not of the purest manufacturing but reflects more of something contaminated and street cut with other uncontrolled products like Fentanyl, sugar with a dose of hate, that distorts an otherwise sane and controlled mind, now unable to differentiate between reality and macho role acting.
Maybe put down the Hollywood scandal sheet and pick up a book? Just a suggestion.
It’s all over the news, even Fox. You can run but now hide from it. It’s everywhere. Every time I turn on Fox for news of the Ukraine, this feel-good filler pablum for the masses is all you get.
Lord Wellington said that the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eaton. Apparently, the next election will be won on the playing cards of Twitter, Facebook and Dancing with the Stars.
He’s imo like too many men these days.. BETAS to their wives.
Will defending his wife, when his wife means nothing to him and Will means nothing to Jada, since they have an “open marriage”. In the end, people / slime, who have open marriages, mean nothing to each other!
These fools in Hollywood are so far out of touch with ordinary people it really doesn’t matter anymore. Their morals, there crappy ideas and movies, twisted political views just keep rolling downhill. Their are just fewer and fewer actors in the reality world.
The sentence about the “global audiences” was laughable. All types of academy award shows have been steadily losing viewers for the last 30 years. The “global audience” consisted of drunks and drug addicts that were too screwed up to change the channel and weren’t watching or caring what was on the TV.
OR parents who turned it on, to have something for their kids, to watch, because THEY WERE not caring what was on…