Hollywood Academy opens disciplinary proceedings against Will Smith for slapping presenter Chris Rock

MADRID, March 31 (Royals Blue) –

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Hollywood has announced the launch of “disciplinary proceedings” against American actor Will Smith after he slapped presenter Chris Rock during the Oscars.

“The Board of Governors has today initiated disciplinary proceedings against Smith for violations of the Academy’s Standards of Conduct, including inappropriate physical contact, abusive or threatening behavior, and compromising the integrity of the Academy,” it said in a statement. .

In this sense, they have apologized to the humorist, as well as to all the spectators, and have specified that the actor “has received a notice” that gives him the opportunity “to be heard in advance by means of a written response.”

Beyond these investigations, the Academy has assured that “it could have handled the situation in another way” and that it asked the actor to leave the ceremony, held at the Dolby Theater, to which the actor refused, as stated the American chain CNN.

Will Smith apologized through an official statement in which he apologized to the presenter, the organizers of the event and all attendees. The actor got up from his seat, annoyed by a joke by the presenter, in which he was referring to his wife, who suffers from alopecia, and slapped the presenter.

“Violence in all its forms is poisonous and destructive. My behavior last night at the Oscars was unacceptable and inexcusable. Jokes at my expense are part of the job, but a joke about Jada’s (his wife’s) medical condition was a tough one. bear and I reacted emotionally,” he said in the statement.

Smith noted that this act “was out of character” and “was wrong”. “I feel ashamed and my actions have not been representative of the man I want to be,” she added. In this way, he qualified the words he spoke during his speech, when he collected the Best Actor award for ‘King Richard’, in which he said that “love makes you do crazy things”. “There is no place for violence in a world of love and kindness,” Smith said.

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