As we enter awards season and start to see more movies that will be eligible for Oscars glory next year, there’s a moment from 2022’s Academy Awards ceremony that’s still being talked about more than half a year later: Will Smith slapping Chris Rock. This was after the SNL alum made a joke about Smith’s wife Jada Pinkett Smith, resulting in the King RichardActor striking the presenter, sitting back in a chair and screaming. “Keep my wife’s name out your fucking mouth!” Numerous celebrities have given their take on the Oscars slap, and now one of Smith’s Wild Wild WestCostars spoke out about forgiveness in this momentous event.
Bai Ling is who you might be from The Crow, Nixon, EntourageAnd LostAmong other projects, starred in Wild Wild West as Miss Mae Lee East opposite Will Smith’s Captain James T. West and Kevin Kline’s Artemus Gordon. Ling shared the movie’s 20-year anniversary with Smith, a steampunk Western film Smith does not like. Central Recorder that she thinks it’s time for forgiveness, saying:
Humans make mistakes. He made a terrible mistake. It must be acknowledged and corrected. He will be a better person when he returns. He will be more humble and have greater influence over others. We have to forgive — we all have made mistakes.
Bai Ling does not condone the actions of Will Smith towards Chris Rock at Oscars. However, she believes her former co-star will have learned from these events. By extension, she hopes that Smith can be forgiven for his actions; after all, everyone has done things they’ve later regretted. However Wild Wild WestSmith and Ling were the only people who worked together. The latter hopes that Smith will come out of this as an improved man.
Will Smith quit the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the days following the Oscars scandal. Soon after, the Academy ban Smith from all its events for a period of 10 years. Then in September, Smith formally apologized to Chris Rock for what he’d done, saying that he was “out of line”And “wrong.”Rock was inspired to speak out about this. “fuck your hostage video,”Unnamed sources claimed that Smith does not need Rock’s help and that Rock has no interest in speaking with Smith. “the public’s forgiveness,” not Rock’s.
Recently, the Oscars slap has attracted renewed attention because Will Smith has been promoting next movie. Emancipation. Smith has already shown the movie at a few screenings, and Apple TV+ subscribers will have access to it starting December 7. Let’s just hope EmancipationBetter than Wild Wild WestAfter turning down, Smith appeared in the movie starring in. The Matrix. Smith even called Wild Wild WestA “thorn”Barry Sonnenfeld, the director of the film, has stated that Smith was in drag in a scene in which he regretted.
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