It’s taken months of thought, but it looks like the Oscar-winning actor is ready to publicly apologize to Chris Rock for his Oscar night slap.
Hollywood always gives us controversial figures, and social networks have only increased this dynamic. A few years ago the untouchable actor was Mel Gibson, recently it was Johnny Depp and now, although for something much less serious than both, it is the year of Will Smith. The controversy does not arise out of nowhere. After two decades of being a perfect smiling star, various gaps in his long marriage or confessed mental health problems seemed to obscure one of the whitest stars (irony of language) of the Hollywood scene. But those cracks were completely fractured when the night of his Oscars, with an already controversial job to shine the figure of the father of the Williams and mix it with stories of his father when he mistreated his mother, Smith won the Oscar for Best Lead Actor for ‘The Williams Method’ after slapping Will Smith.
Like all the media that followed the gala, the first feeling was disbelief and then thinking that it was scripted. In the end it turned out that it was all true, that it was a childish and unconscious reaction to a joke about his wife’s alopecia, broadcast to millions of people. It didn’t take Will long (but not too short) to apologize on social media, but it seemed like a half-assed apology. His projects with Netflix and other companies were put on hold and the Academy announced that they would ban him from the gala for 10 years.
It has not been until now, four months after the incident, that Will Smith has published a more complete, more correct, more apologetic apology video. After all, it is the first time that he has apologized to Chis Rock and her family, who, in addition to the blow, had to suffer every defender of Smith in networks and the barrage of “free thinkers” who seek to further lower the limits of humour.
In a five-minute video, the actor reflects on the incident in a similar way as he has done so far, talking about changing hate for love, etc, etc. However, here he addresses Chris Rock and his family for the first time to apologize and admit that there were many more than he initially thought were affected by that outburst. Smith continues to justify his mistake to the fact of “being human” and confesses that the biggest pressure on him is not to disappoint people and the positive image they have of him. Perhaps this is what squeaks the most, that the actor continues to reflect in the apology to his victim that what hurts him the most is having destroyed his public image…
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Camila Luna is a writer at Gossipify, where she covers the latest movies and television series. With a passion for all things entertainment, Camila brings her unique perspective to her writing and offers readers an inside look at the industry. Camila is a graduate from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with a degree in English and is also a avid movie watcher.
