Did the slap hurt his career ?
He he loose work over it ?
shareHe is filming Bad Boys 4, so it didn’t hurt him much.
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He's in a better place than Mel Gibson was.
shareI disagree, Mel’s doing just fine.
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I think Mel was persona non grata for a long long time though.
Time will tell with Smith.
That he was, but Mel still found love and support and was able to squeeze in a few films and almost immediately after being in the lion’s den, i.e. The Beaver.
Jodi Foster showed Mel a great deal of compassion by fighting for him to star in that film. And I could be wrong but I think that was when Hollywood was burning effigies of Mel on a daily basis.
But you are correct, Mel went through it, no doubt.
It totally destroyed his image. Whether or not he can get work doesn't really matter. From now on, every time we see him on screen, all we're going to think is "that's the guy that slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars and then cried about it afterwards".
Bro fucked up and now he has to live with it for the rest of his life.
agreed. his entire image in my mind has changed of him and i really had no horse in the race surrounding the events that went on
if it can have that strong of mental image repercussions on me it must be pretty trong.
his entire image went from decades of stuff he was in went from hilarious, care free cool will.
to weird ass angry Will.
Agreed. I can't take him seriously as an action star anymore. Normally, I can separate actors from the characters they play, but now, when I watch one of his movies, I no longer see the tough, capable, courageous characters of Hancock, or Agent J, or Deadshot, or Captain Hiller on the screen, I see Will Smith, who let his wife cut his balls off. I see a man who, with a mere look from her, went from laughing at a joke along with the rest of the audience, to a weak, submissive clown who made a fool of himself in public, trying desperately to be a white knight for a woman who clearly hasn't got a shred of respect left for him.
shareI feel the exact same way.
shareMaybe some. He will overcome it, I think.
shareMeh, I think he’s fine. I didn’t think the slap was such a big deal. Obviously he took a hit from the academy, but he apologized. Also, Rock was trying to get laughs at Jada’s expense.
I think it was the Academy that reacted poorly and should be ‘hit’ by this incident. Both men made mistakes, but they (mostly) owned up to them. The Academy just sought to punish Smith. They changed nothing in how they conduct things. Something like this could happen again (obviously with different people).
I know you deleted out of shame. But your statement is too stupid to let go unchecked.
Rock was just making jokes about Jada's hair. He had no clue she was going bald.
The bigger humiliation for Smith is that his wife was fucking her son's buddy.
What mistake did Rock make? None.
His career was BEING Will Smith. He is not a good actor, just popular. He is the same cocky character in most of his roles and the one's where he's not are over rated.
He should have quit trying to impress everyone around him.
He should have practiced being an outsider and going against the stream.
Instead he, like most actors, got swept up in his own hype.