Tyler Perry was “de-escaling” not comforting Will Smith after Oscars slap – Tribeca Festival

Tyler Perry was reluctant to hear from Will Smith that Oscar punched Chris Rock today, saying he “went prematurely to Chris to make sure he was okay,” but he also felt sympathy for Smith.

During a question-and-answer session with Gail King at the Tribeca Festival, he criticized media reports of comforting Smith, who ran with a rock and buckled up for a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith who had shaved off. hair.

“There is a difference between a sedative and an escalation reduction,” Perry told King, before whom he was shocked in the midst of an extensive conversation about his life and career.

“This is my only problem. If I talk about it, it overshadows everything we talk about. “Obviously it will be a title,” said Perry King when asked if Smith would keep his stage at Tyler Perry Studios. Perry named each of the 12 stages after the one he admired.

“We can do another title,” he joked. “I’m pregnant with Tyler’s baby. This is the title “.

After his release, Perry continued: “I was there, close. I went to talk to Chris earlier because he was sick and I made sure to tell Will. “

He said that Smith, who had been banned from the Oscars for ten years, “was devastated. I couldn’t believe what happened. I couldn’t believe he did it. And I look at this man, he looks me in the eye: “What are you doing? This is your night … and all this to win an Oscar. “Then it occurred to us.

Smith received an Oscar for Best Actor King Richard.

“I think he’s thinking a lot, trying to figure out what happened,” Perry said. She referred to the “Will” section of Smith’s latest memoir, where she said the actor “was unable to protect her mother from him at the age of eight.”

“I know this feeling … and if with age this trauma is not dealt with immediately, it will come at the most inopportune and horrible time,” Perry said.

In friendships with Rock and Smith, the situation was “very difficult”.

Rocky “was a clear champion when he faced this problem. But “something very painful happened [Smith] Like This is no excuse, it was completely wrong, but something caused it. It was all as it is. “

“I feel very uncomfortable. “I don’t think this is my story,” she said.

Perry, made a The creator, prolific film and television writer, director, actor and head of his 330-acre studio complex in Atlanta spoke about the trauma of his own family growing up in New Orleans and how he overcame it, starting his career with a ‘play titled “I Know They Changed Me” about adult survivors of violence. He did a lot of odd jobs and at one point slept in his car until he was successful and eventually became the owner of the first black studio and one of the most influential black creators and entrepreneurs in the country.

He says his aspirations and success stem in large part from his unwavering commitment to his core audience. “Does crossover mean what are you going to do to please the whites?” What will you do to become more conventional? “They always denied me,” she said. “Come here to see what we are doing.

Perry noted that his annual salary is around $ 154 million this year and last year he is 99% black.

He has an amazing job and awards efficiency, criticizing directors who don’t go to the set and saying, “Hmm, I think I want to try to change the light like this and come here. I say: “Do everything at home”.

“I’ll take a shot, but three cameras are shooting at the same time and when I shoot it, I’ll edit it in my head,” he said. “From the moment you go to the set, the money burns.”

“With the waste we spend on Hollywood, we can run a small country,” he said.