Will Smith immediately following the latter’s on-stage altercation with Chris Rock at the Academy Awards ceremony in March.Actor and producer Perry was seen with Smith during the first break in the broadcast after the King Richard star reacted to a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett-Smith’s alopecia by slapping Rock.Following numerous apologies over the incident, Smith resigned from the Academy.
He was later banned from all Academy events for 10 years.Speaking in a conversation with Gayle King as part of the Tribeca Film Festival’s Directors Series on Monday (June 13), Perry explained that the articles saying he was “comforting” Smith didn’t tell the whole story.“There’s a difference between comforting and de-escalating,” People reports Perry as saying at the New York event. “And I left early to get to Chris to make sure he was OK.
Being friends with both of them has been very difficult.”Perry also says he labelled Smith’s behaviour as “wrong in no uncertain terms,” and that he “made sure” Smith was aware.“And I’ll tell you, when we walked over to him, he was devastated.
He couldn’t believe what happened. He couldn’t believe he did it.’ I’m looking at this man in his eyes going, ‘What are you doing?
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