Will Smith is standing behind the writers and his fellow actors on strike. On Friday, Smith shared his support for the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, describing the uproar as a “pivotal moment for our profession.” The actor joined a class run by his mentor Aaron Speier of The Screen Acting …
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“I can’t believe what my life is,” says Tom Segura. Segura has good reason to be proud. The 44-year-old comic has grinded away for decades to become one of the most successful (and prolific) comedians around. He co-hosts a pair of popular podcasts — Two Bears One Cave with pal …
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Jimmy Kimmel unsurprisingly had a whole lot more Will Smith/slap jokes prepared for this year’s Oscars, but executive producer Molly McNearney (who’s also Kimmel’s wife) explained why they were ultimately cut from the show in a new interview with Variety. “We didn’t want to make this year all about last …
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Speaking to Rolling Stone ahead of his third Oscar-hosting stint, Jimmy Kimmel relayed that him and his late-night writing team had been putting in hours and hours of prep work for cinema’s biggest night. Well, it finally came. And Kimmel didn’t disappoint. The Jimmy Kimmel Live! funnyman kicked off his …
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With blockbuster movies like Top Gun: Maverick and Avatar: The Way of Water nominated for Best Picture, more eyes will be on this Sunday’s Academy Awards — and the night’s host, Jimmy Kimmel. The Jimmy Kimmel Live! ringleader will be hosting the Oscars for the third time. He was, of …
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It was nearly a year ago that Will Smith marched onto the Dolby Theatre stage and smacked the piss out of host Chris Rock in the middle of the Oscars ceremony — all for the crime of making an off-color joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s hairdo. You surely …
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Will Smith returned to the awards stage on Wednesday evening to accept the Beacon Award at the African American Film Critics Association Awards ceremony, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The occasion was the actor’s first in-person speech at an awards show since the 2022 Oscars debacle. Smith accepted the honor …
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The Oscars have always been a battleground of sorts. In recent years, the ceremony has become a public event arbitrating issues of race, gender, and privilege in cinema and society. But throughout its 94-year history, the Academy Awards mediated some very different battles. There have been attempts to square petty …
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Serena Williams addressed Will Smith’s infamous slap of Chris Rock at the Oscars — where Smith was nominated (and won) for his role in King Richard, about Williams’ father — for the first time in a new interview with CBS Mornings. Speaking to Gayle King about the instantly viral moment …
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It’s too bad that Will Smith’s new movie, Emancipation (in theaters now, and set to be released on Apple+ Dec. 9), has to go down as his first movie since The Slap, because it doesn’t really make sense as a movie seen through that lens. This isn’t the humbled bit …
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