Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars to please his wife Jada Pinkett is never going to sleep. Jessica Chastain has opened up about how the atmosphere felt as she accepted the Oscar award after Will Smith-Chris Rock’s slap.
According to her, the atmosphere was charged via US Magazine;
A tense situation. Jessica Chastain opened up about the “weird” experience of accepting an Oscar following Will Smith‘s altercation with Chris Rock earlier in the night.
“Well … It was a weird night,” the Scenes From a Marriage star, 45, told Porter magazine in an interview published on Monday, June 27, when asked about accepting the Best Actress Oscar for The Eyes of Tammy Faye. “I walked into a very charged energy in that room, and I was trying to figure out … how to just breathe and create a calmness.”
Chastain’s big moment was overshadowed by an incident that took place earlier in the night, when Smith, 53, walked on stage and slapped Rock, 57, after the comedian made a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith. The Everybody Hates Chris creator compared the Matrix actress’ bald head to “G.I. Jane,” which the Smiths felt was a dig at her alopecia.
Despite the tense atmosphere, Chastain used her speech to speak about suicide prevention and advocate for support for the LGBTQ+ community, and she told Porter that she knew she wanted to use her time onstage to take a stand. “I’ve lost someone very dear to me to suicide,” the Molly’s Game actress said, referring to her sister Juliet, who died by suicide in 2003. “I knew I wanted to touch on that because, with everything that was going on, it was clear that we were moving into an area in our politics of intolerance and discrimination.”
She continued: “I didn’t know everything I was going to say and there were moments where I started to get emotional so I pulled it back, but I had an idea of what I wanted to use that global platform to create if I got up there.”
Jada ruined everyone’s night.
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