Okay so she is loving this, now she gets photographed while Will becomes a pariah.
Nope. Rock made a joke. A borderline innocuous one. Smith committed violence.
There’s a wide array of responses between ‘sitting still’ and slapping someone over a minor slight. As a kid/adolescent/young man I fought over some petty shit. As a grown man I don’t need to get physical over words.
Sorry, could you elaborate on the Crash thing?
No, I just don’t give a shit about it. Chris Rock has done all kinds of shit, who cares? He can’t joke that the bitch is bald? Fuck that.
Smith owed an apology? Wow.
You’re conflating the two. The reality is a joke was made on someone’s expense versus a person of color smacked the shit out of someone, not “made a scene” as you generously put it. If Will Smith did nothing, then Chris Rock would have probably been reprimanded after the fact, but Will Smith made it worse, not to…
If he had it coming for that lame-ass joke, Ricky Gervais should have been shanked about twenty different times at the Golden Globes.
Tyler Perry’s still making movies.
He hit someone. Did you miss it, or do you not understand the difference between hitting someone and just saying words?
Medical condition, LOL
regardless of rock’s jokes and documentaries, a physical attack for words is illegal, and smith is lucky that rock did him a major solid by not pressing charges...otherwise smith would have spent time in jail.
it wasn’t like she had a serious life-threatening illness though, it’s literally just hair loss.
technically Bad Boys 4 and that other film are just “on pause” so he hasn’t technically “lost” any films yet, given how badly Sony needs a hit I don’t see them canning BB4.
“We can’t police every element of someone’s personal life so we shouldn’t bother condemning sexual harassers or rapists in any meaningful capacity” is already a very bad take, but even by your own standards Will Smith is only guilty of simple battery, which is a misdemeanor.
Will Smith makes film studios and the Academy money.
What the actual fuck is the point of this article? We SHOULDN’T hold people responsible for live on-camera assaults? We SHOULD but not take so long about it? The Academy is responsible for punishing American citizens of crimes they’ve been accused of but not actually convicted of? Some celebrities are worse than Will…
Lot of “whataboutism” going on in this article that in no way actually addressed the assault Smith committed on live television and the response by the organization hosting the show, about which this article is ostensibly titled.
I don’t think this means he is banned from being nominated/winning an Oscar. The language states he can’t attend events: