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.
Yup, he liked the joke until he turned to her and saw the death glare. Jada has always been horrible, and this is just another example of it. It doesn’t excuse his behavior, but it does point to why he did it.
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.
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.
Imagine how insecure a person must feel to tolerate that and act in the ways he does.
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.
To be fair, it sounds like it might have been a consensual open marriage.
Retroactively. The dude found out the details on live TV. And he likely only gave “permission” because he knows Jada would run away and steal his kids if he protested. She could bury the kids in the church of Scientology if she wanted, and he’d never see any of them again. So at best, it was consent-by-coercion, which isn’t consent at all.
Jayden was good in Pursuit of Happyness, idk about any other good role beyond that.
Gotham was not bad
Gotham was great, but Jaden wasn’t in it.
I read it as Jada, oops
Was he in the show or are you talking about a movie?
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.
Yeah but a lot of people on lemmy are bad mouthing him, so he’s truly fallen on hard times.
Say what you want about the other kids, but I personally think Justice Smith has done some good work. He was great in The Get Down, All the Bright Places, and Dungeons and Dragons.
He seems like the only one in the entire family that doesn’t have his head shoulders deep in his own ass.
I can’t tell if this is a joke or not, I just googled it to confirm and Justice Smith is definitely not related to Will Smith.
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$.
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.
Foundations are typically 501c3s
My bad, that’s true. I guess it’s that private foundations are more limited in how much you can deduct. To qualify as a public charity, a foundation needs to get at least a third of its funding from the public and have other board members, so they can’t just be self-funded and self-directed. A private foundation still has to be for a qualified charitable purpose but only lets you deduct half as much of contributions.
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
That must be a big slap in the face.
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.
That’s how veiled threats work. There was nothing wrong with Colbert’s face. Smith brought up someone kicking his ass out of nowhere. Colbert understood and even said something like “I hope nobody kicks my ass this interview”. Smith later states how he’s handsome and strong. Etc.
Do you not understand how banter works? Have you never had a conversation with friends before? I mean the guy is a douche but you don’t need to just make wild shit up, there’s plenty of ACTUAL things he’s done to not like him before you start lying
Perhaps you just didn’t pick up on the threat, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. It was obvious enough for me to notice it and remember it 16 years later.
You think I just kept that interview in my pocket that long waiting for the right opportunity to… lie about Will Smith? And that seems to make you angry?
This is Jaden isn’t it? I just found Jaden Smith on Lemmy.
I mean, he also broke into his Muhammad Ali act around the same time, so it could have come from there, but I guess I see your point? I’m just not prepared to judge the guy based upon that.
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
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.
I WANT TO GET OFF MR BONES WILD RIDE
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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Shitty movie bitch and maniacal evil groomer villain, aka Scientology Abridged still exist?
