After months away from the media, American actor Will Smith has reappeared on television and talked about the again slap which gave the comedian Chris Rock during the gala of Oscars earlier this year, for a bad joke on his wife.
“It was a horrible night: there are many complexities and nuances behind it, pBut at the end of the day I lost my mind And I think what I would say is, you never know what someone is going through and I was going through something that night, even if that doesn’t justify my actions,” Smith reflected on the show. “The Daily Show” by Trevor Noah.Currently, Smith made these statements just days before his next film, “Emancipation”, What does his return to the screens mean? after almost a year of inactivity after the accident.
The actor starred in the delivery of the Oscar in 2022 when it hit al Rock on stage at the Dolby Theater after him will joke about the baldness of Jada Pinkett, Smith’s wife. A few minutes later, the interpreter Has received I am statuette for his performance in “King Richard: A Winning Family” (2021).
In his reappearance, Smith said he held that March 27 It was the best and worst day of her life. “I learned that we have to be kind to each other, it’s hard and I think the most painful thing for me was that I took my hardships to make the road difficult for others, I understood the phrase that says: hurt people you hurt other people,” he explained.
Despite a public apology Smith gave at the time and his resignation as a member of the Academy, this institution agreed to ban him from the Oscars for a decade.
Rumors notwithstanding, Apple will release Will Smith’s new film
After the scandal Apple confirmed last October that the release of “Emancipation“, the new film by Will Smith, after the actor was away from the media.
Some outlets assumed the slavery drama had been postponed after the widely condemned episode, which led to the exclusion of blacksmith of the Academy Awards ceremony for a decade.
Finally, the Apple company announced that this feature film It would be in theaters on December 2 and on its Apple TV+ platform a week later.
With these dates Apple could nominate “Emancipation” at the Oscars in March, one year after making history by becoming the first streaming platform to win Hollywood’s biggest Best Picture statuette with ‘CODA’.
What is the film “Emancipation” about?
The film introduces Smith as a runaway slave on a hard journey in search of freedom in northern Louisiana, USA. The character of him, Peter, is inspired by the infamous photograph of a slave whose back was maimed by lashes received on a plantation, and who was nicknamed “Peter the Whipped”.
It was directed by Antoine Fuqua, whose 2001 crime drama ‘Training Day’ earned Denzel Washington an Academy Award for Best Actor.
The film was originally scheduled to shoot in Georgia, but the production changed locations after the southern state passed an election law that critics say aims to reduce participation from black and other underrepresented communities.
