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190 days ago, if you had told me Will Smith would be back in action by Christmas, I would’ve told you to go see a doctor.
That surreal March Monday came after Smith smacked Chris Rock onstage at the Oscars, won Best Actor minutes later and became an instant worldwide pariah. Then, once the Academy conducted a hilarious “investigation” of an event plainly viewed by millions, he was rightly banned from the ceremony for 10 years.
Needless to say, not being allowed into the Oscars for a decade is not a good look for a movie actor.
But in Hollywood, who cares about how their own people behave?! On Monday, Smith, 54, returned to the limelight with the abruptness of, well, a slap in the face.
Apple dropped the fancy highbrow trailer for Smith’s new movie “Emancipation,” a serious drama directed by Antoine Fuqua (“Training Day”) in which he plays an escaped slave, and announced it will be released in December during peak award campaign season.
Smith getting another Best Actor nod in a few months’ time is a very real possibility.
Remember that Apple’s “CODA” won Best Picture last year. Or maybe you forgot because the victory was vastly overshadowed by a crazed Will Smith assaulting another famous person in front of tens of millions of people and then shouting “F–k!” like a madman.
