It turns out Will Smith wasn’t directly asked to leave the Oscars after Chris Rock criticized Jada Pinkett Smith for her “GI Jane 2” line, instead it was speculation.
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Deadline learned that Oscar-winning couple, Academy President David Rubin and CEO Down Hudson, spoke to a Smith rep, mulling over an idea early on at the time. King Richard The abandonment of the winner of the Dolby Theater as best male actor. Smith’s spokesperson gave the actor a speech and he, according to a well-positioned source that night, told him, “I want to fix this, I want to stay and apologize.”
The more details come to light, the more perspective emerges in the hat, it seems the darker role of Oscar-winning TV show producer Will Packer in all of this. We know for a fact that Packer spoke to Smith after the Rock incident, as did Denzel Washington, Tyler Perry, and Bradley Cooper. As for the actual content of this conversation, there seem to be many views on what happened in the fog of war. A source tells us Packer told Smith to stay and not go. This is where we can see people running into their corners as the blame game intensifies.
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Inside information, on the other hand, tells us that this was actually a “strong demand” from academy executives and not a simple suggestion that Smith leave Dolby.
These mutually exclusive perspectives further pollute the water.
When the deadline was reached today, the academy representatives did not comment on the latest developments. But sources close to the organization tell us that the statement that Smith was asked to leave “remains accurate.”
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AMPAS released a statement Wednesday stating, “While we would like to clarify that Mr. Smith was asked to leave the ceremony and refused, we also acknowledge that we could have handled the situation differently.”
Additionally, we understand that the Academy is keeping an eye on upcoming events, especially the post-April 18 meeting it has been planning since receiving Smith’s expected written response next week.
“I haven’t talked to anyone, despite what you’ve heard,” Rock said last night during the second show of his Ego Death World Tour Wednesday night at Boston’s Wilbury Theater.
Chris Rock was greeted with a standing ovation in the first show after winning an Oscar, with brief hints of an accident.
At the opening show, after being greeted by an exhausted crowd with a three-minute standing ovation, Rock asked viewers, “How was your weekend?” And “it will be serious and fun”. He then added that he would make a few lines before heading to his set, and an audience member yelled, “Let Will Smith go!” You can listen to their comments below.
At a meeting Wednesday night in Boston, just hours before Rocky took the stage, the board of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences met and voted in favor of further investigating the Smith-Rock case.
“In accordance with the Academy’s Code of Conduct and California law, Mr. Smith receives at least 15 days’ notice of his violations and sanctions and the opportunity to be heard in advance via a written response. L The academy announced yesterday the “disciplinary procedure” which began after the conclusion of a virtual meeting of dozens of governors and other participants in the AMPAS. “At the next board meeting on April 18, the Academy can take any disciplinary action, which may include suspension, expulsion or other sanctions permitted by its statute and rules of conduct “.
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Source: Deadline
