His star has really crashed and burned, hasn't it? He tried to put his kids in movies and they can't act and are also very weird, so no one went to see them. His wife cheated on him and laughed about it. On national TV. He slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars because he told a mean, but not horribly offensive joke. No wonder no one wants to give to their charity.
He slapped him because of HER reaction. Go look at the video. He's laughing just as much as the rest of the audience before the camera cuts away. She 100% got on his ass about it so then he went and did that shit.
Are you implying that makes it better? Or worse?
Worse. He wasn't even actually angry. He did it because the woman who laughed about cheating on him on national TV gave him a dirty look. Threw away his entire fucking career because for her.
To be fair, he is probably set for life anyway. And I think his career was spiraling anyway. What good things has he been in recently?
I hear King Richard is good. I would say that might be a bit of a sign that is career wasn't really spiraling considering... You know... The night he slapped Chris Rock he was there to receive his very first Oscar in his entire career for his performance in that exact movie.
Does it matter? We know he can drop a stellar performance with the right production. Fact is, Will Smith isn't going anywhere unless he retires, he can have a career as long as Morgan Freeman's if he gets his personal life in check.
He'll be back.
Shit man, Mel Gibson disappeared for like 10 years after going all racist anti-semite on the phone yelling at his girlfriend that one time. Just laid low, then directed Hacksaw Ridge and everyone was just like "hey! He apologized, and this film was alright!"
The true moral of the story is to not believe Hollywood PR. Will Smith has been a media darling for decades. The guy could do no wrong.
Now it turns out he's just another deeply flawed rich person.
An important lesson for people who idolize celebrities and engage in parasocial relationships with them. Whether it's Kim Kardashian or Keanu Reeves, you have no idea of what they're really like, stop fooling yourself that you do.
You take what you said about Keanu back rn
Keanu's been nothing but a real G since the 80's.
Will Smith has been a cocky dick the entire time — he just had charisma so people let it slide.
You shouldn't idolize any celebrity, period. Get some real heroes for fucks sake. Your local nursing home staff are more heroic than any celebrity. One gets fame and fortune. The other gets poverty and depression. Which takes more heroism to persevere through?
To be fair, it sounds like it might have been a consensual open marriage.
Speaking of his children, does anybody remember Jaden Smith on Twitter posting super cringe shit? That was probably like a decade ago now
Judging by Jada's book and Will's reactions on interviews, someone definitely forgot to tell him about the open marriage arrangement. Dude found out about it on live TV.
I think he knew it was open he just didn’t want it to be. He is that whipped for whatever reason so he stays with her.
To be fair, it sounds like it might have been a consensual open marriage.
Retroactively maybe.
To be fair, it sounds like it might have been a consensual open marriage.
It was only consensual in the sense that if he didn't agree to it Jada would have run away with the children and hidden them in the Church of Scientology so he couldn't ever see them again.
Jayden was good in Pursuit of Happyness, idk about any other good role beyond that.
His star has really crashed and burned, hasn't it?
He’s still acting. The trailer for Bad Boys 4 came out just a couple days ago.
He got in one little fight and the donors got scared
And said, "Wifey's cuckin' with her lover and her ass in the air"
I can hear this gif...
AHHH!
Assaulting people does tend to make one less endearing.
Please donate to our... SMACK... charity. Oh, and keep my wife's motherfucking name, out yo motherfucking... Please donate... MOUTH.
Maybe they could donate their own money.
Which is weird because I thought that’s how rich people used foundations named after themselves? I thought it was mostly self-funded and a way to lower their tax burden
You lower your tax burden by as much as the taxes you would have otherwise paid on the money you gave to charity.
If you give 100$ that would have been taxed at 30%, you get a 30$ tax deduction, you're still down 70$.
Yeah, but if you control said foundation, you can then have it spent on things that you care about. It isn't the get out of tax free card that some people make it out to be, but it can probably be beneficial in some situations.
Is what I, someone who hasn't got the slightest clue about U.S. law, thinks.
Foundations aren't deductible though. You have to give it away to an honest-to-God charity approved by the IRS for it to do anything. And even then, you can never get more money by donating it than you would just keeping the money.
The post-slap life is a hard life
It's the post-slap life for us
It's the post-slap life for us
'Stead of treated
We get tricked
'Stead of kisses
We get kicked
It's the post-slap life
If Will left Jada, and went full scorched earth on her and the scientologists (e.g. Leah Remini), We'd all love him again.
I wouldn't. He's always been a cocky prick. You could see it come out in interviews sometimes.
He basically physically threatened Colbert while being interviewed on his show for his role in Ali. Will Smith is charming, so he's gotten away with a lot. The mask is off now though.
Edit: the Colbert interview was for Hancock, not Ali.
https://www.cc.com/video/ilejmp/the-colbert-report-will-smith
Ali came out in 2001, while The Colbert Report didn't Debut until 2005. link?
You're right it was an interview for Hancock.
https://www.cc.com/video/ilejmp/the-colbert-report-will-smith
So when he made a comment about how Stephen must have been beaten up at some point? I mean. That's reaching. it was awkward, but imo really doesn't rise to "basically physically threatened." Especially since Colbert has had him on his shows repeatedly afterwards, you'd think that if Stephen didn't feel safe around him, probly wouldn't have him back on.
On another note, god I miss the Colbert Report. That was peak satire.
I watched the whole thing, no where in that does he threaten anyone. He's a pompous douche promoting his movie but he doesn't remotely threaten anyone
That must be a big slap in the face.
I looked it up and today is the 2 year anniversary of The Slap. Doesn't seem like it's been that long.
That's because every day is torture in this late stage capitalist hellscape
We all know the saying, time flies when you're being tortured.
The Slappening
Did he go to this year's oscars?
No, he voluntarily returned his membership to the academy and they banned him from attending for 10 years.
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