Will Smith is experiencing the fallout following “the slap” at the 94th Academy Awards seen around the world.
Just a quick recap! On Oscar night, Sunday, March 27, Smith slapped Chris Rock, after he made a joke deemed insensitive about the “Red Table Talk” host, actress, and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith.
Rock joked, “Jada, I love you, ‘G.I. Jane 2, ‘can’t wait to see it.”
Pinkett Smith rolled her eyes at the joke. She has alopecia, an autoimmune disorder causing hair loss. Hence, Smith got on a stage and slapped Rock.
As he returned to his seat, a Rock confused-looking then replied, “Smith just slapped the [expletive] out of me.” Smith sat down and said, “Keep my wife’s name out your [expletive] mouth.”
Since then, countless think pieces have been published, multiple celebrities have weighed in on the matter, sides and Smith resigned as a member of the Academy.
Smith’s projects like “Bad Boys 4 and Netflix’s “Fast and Loose” have been put on pause.
An insider source told Us Weekly, “He feels terrible and is trying not to panic, but seeing his roles put on ice has been a hugely bitter pill to swallow.”
The source added, “His biggest fear is that he’s in the process of being fully canceled, and there’s nothing he can really do about it except sit back, suck up his punishment like a man and try to atone however he can.”
In another article by Us Weekly, a source said Pinkett Smith isn’t “angry with” her husband,. Though, she “wishes he didn’t” react by getting physical with Rock.
“It was in the heat of the moment and it was him overreacting. He knows that, she knows that. They’re in agreement that he overreacted,” a source told Us Weekly.
Though Whoopi Goldberg recently said in an interview she believes Smith’s career will recover.
“Also some of Will Smith’s future projects are in question,” she said. “The question is, does he have a path back? Yes, of course, he does. He’ll be fine, he’ll be back. No worries.”
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Another day in Hollywood paradise.
Who really cares anymore? Let the town collapse in on itself, it is no longer relevant to the real world where real people live. Fantasy and illusion.
May all the disaster movies, predicting bad things happening to pervywood, COME TRUE please!
The Oscar he received should have had Jada’s face and Oscar’s bald bead, which would have made it as fraudulent as a three-dollar bill. It took a Miracle for Tiger Woods to recover from his latest car crash. It should take an act of God for Smith to recover his worthless career which his acting abilities are obviously unable to present a believable face of civility. A true act of remorse is NOT to go out and party all night in laughter and celebration, and then wait for the reviews, which when they come out not in your favor, causes you to just put on another act of fake contrition. He deserves the Alec Baldwin award, not an Oscar.
Whoopi thinks black privilege is limitless as she got a nothing-burger 2 week time out after she shot her ignorant mouth off about the Holocaust.