Will Smith decides to leave the Hollywood Academy after his slap to Chris Rock at the Oscar Awards | leisure and culture

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Will Smith has decided to leave the Hollywood Academy, in charge of organizing the Oscars, by describing his performance at the 94th edition of these awards as “shocking, painful and inexcusable,” the actor reported this Friday in a statement sent by his agency. of representation to American media.

Smith takes this position two days after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that it was opening a disciplinary file and was weighing the measures to apply to the actor.

Likewise, the Hollywood Academy then urged him to issue a written statement about his controversial slap to comedian Chris Rock at last Sunday’s Oscar gala, after he joked about the alopecia of Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith .

In this sense, the interpreter has responded to the request of the Oscar organization with a statement in which he states that he will accept “more consequences” from the Academy.

The actor had 15 days to send that statement before the board of directors of this institution meets on April 18 and “take any disciplinary action”, which could be “suspension, expulsion or any other sanction allowed in the statutes”.

“The list of people I have harmed is long and includes Chris Rock, his family, many of my dear and beloved friends, attendees and viewers around the world from home,” Smith’s letter reads. who claims to be “broken”.

In addition, the winner of the Oscar for best actor in this same edition referred to his fellow nominees and also to the winners this year, whom he said he had “deprived” of celebrating their “extraordinary work.”

Response from the Hollywood Academy

Just an hour after the statement, the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, David Rubin, issued a manifesto in which he assured that “they have received and accepted the immediate resignation” by Smith.

“We will continue to advance with our disciplinary procedure against Mr. Smith for the violation of the Academy’s codes of conduct,” concludes the response from the institution, whose highest body will meet on Tuesday, April 18, to agree on a final decision regarding this controversy.

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