Will Smith punches his first Oscar for Best Actor at his wife’s ‘baldness’ mockery

Hollywood star Will Smith (53) won his first Academy Award for Best Actor. Will Smith, who punched the presenter in the cheek for making a joke about his wife before his award, went back and forth between extreme anger and joy, making him the most talked-about figure at the Oscars.

Will Smith, Javier Bardem (‘Living with the Ricardo’s Family’) and Benedict Cumberbatch (‘The Power of Dogs’) starred in the movie ‘King Richard’ at the ’94th Academy Awards’ at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, USA on the 28th (Korea time). ), Andrew Garfield (‘Tick, Tick… Boom!’) and Denzel Washington (‘Macbeth’s Tragedy’) for Best Actor.

Will Smith said, “I am overwhelmed with emotion. “I think it’s my calling to love and protect people in my life,” he said. Sometimes you have to work with Even so, there are moments when you still have to smile and pretend that nothing is wrong,” he said, crying tears of emotion.

He continued, “Thank you to Sister Venus and Serena Williams, and thank you to the entire Williams family for trusting me to play your stories. Thank you for giving me this honor.”

‘King Richards’ is a biopic of Richard Williams, the father who raised the Venus and Serena Williams sisters as tennis empresses, and Will Smith plays Richard Williams in the play. For the first time in his acting career, he won the 75th British Academy Awards and the 27th Critics’ Choice Awards for Best Actor, the Golden Globe Awards and the Actors Guild Awards for Best Actor, and even the Academy Awards for Best Actor.

Will Smith said, “I’m sorry to the Academy, and I also apologize to my colleagues here. We ask that you invite us again next year,” he added.

Will Smith’s apology stems from his radical behavior when American comedian Chris Rock took the stage as the presenter for a feature-length documentary earlier.

Chris Rock gave a light greeting before the award and joked with Javier Bardem and Will Smith. He first sailed to Javier Bardem, saying, “I think the role of a husband here today will be difficult. Together with her wife, Penelope Cruz, she was nominated for Best Actress for her role. If her wife doesn’t win, she won’t be Javier Bardem either.”

Then he joked about the Will Smiths. Chris Rock pointed to Will Smith’s wife Jada Pinkat Smith’s bald hairstyle and looked forward to the sequel to ‘G.I. Jane’ (the female version of ‘G.I.Joe’)”, and Jada Pinkat Smith displeased her. He shook his head.

Will Smith suddenly went up to the stage, and Chris Rock was bewildered, saying, “Wait a minute, Will Smith is coming up on stage.” At that moment, Will Smith slapped Chris Rock on the cheek with his fist, went downstairs, turned to the camera mirroring him, and said, “Don’t speak my wife’s name!”

The audience became quiet. Everyone was bewildered if it was a situational play with academy-style humor, but it looked like a real situation. Ahn Hyun-mo, who was in charge of the TV Chosun live broadcast that day, said, “I think Chris Rock’s jokes were a little too strong. I think Will Smith was upset when he mentioned her wife’s name,” she saw.

Jada Pinkett Smith confessed to baldness in 2018. Jada Pinkett Smith revealed that she shaved her head last year on social media because of her alopecia, saying she “has no choice but to laugh. She’s going to be hard to hide, so I’m trying to share.”

It is speculated that Will Smith took as a mockery of Chris Rock’s joke about his wife who had no choice but to shave off his hair and was outraged.

However, even after the awards ceremony was over, netizens were curious about Will Smith’s actual assault, giving various opinions such as “Isn’t it a situational play?”, “Isn’t it a real attack?”, “Talking about hair loss makes me angry.”

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