The Fresh Prince wants the world to love him again, writes Fiona Sturges. But he’s going about it the wrong way, with the most tortured career resurrection in recent times
Didn’t know about that. I actually try not to “meet my heroes.” It’s so depressing.
I don’t care for the slap. Like, I really, really don’t care.
I don’t see his failed comeback as punishment, it’s just evidence he can’t make anything good anymore. He’s not owed a comeback, and failing to comeback is not ‘punishment’
people said as much, hes too much like the rock, wants to be center attention in the roles hes been. alan tudyk said as much.
Uh he slapped a man for a joke about his wife that is (separately and unrelatedly) cucking him. And he raised Jaiden Smith. Nah, keep the punishment coming
No. He hasn’t been punished enough. Dude needs to fade away.
jada pinka should clamped harder on her punishment.
Someone needs to slap him off his feet on good morning america.
I used to really like him. He came across as really charismatic but after the slap and finding out that he was not in the Scientology box but had his head pressed right up against it, I figured screw this guy.
and being jada pinka “punching bag” too.
Smith is an awesome ensemble actor. He has great chemistry with his co-stars in buddy movies, be it MIB, Bad Boys, Hitch or even Independence Day. As Fresh Prince, he had a whole cast to play off. But he can’t carry a movie where he’s the only star. It becomes evident that he doesn’t have the range, and his attempts to act come across as forced. I think people already realised it and are avoiding such movies. The Bad Boys franchise proves that he’s still a bankable co-star, and hopefully he’ll accept that position in his future work, rather than soloing vanity movies.
Vanity movies, that’s what those are. Thank you for that phrase, it all makes sense now
He’s a notorious prick. He deserves all the negative attention he gets. Him crashing out repeatedly recently has only solidified his publicly perceived image as an unstable, insecure, abusive, corny, try-hard, iamverybadass, cuckold that gives everyone the ick.
He should’ve quit while he was ahead before he made every movie role a version of himself and focused on building his childrens’ futures or doing something for the greater good with his fortune. But no, he can’t let anything go. He has to try and control everything. And the more that goes sideways the more unhinged he becomes. It would be sad if he wasn’t such a selfish ass.
thats kinda make since why alan tudyk was pissed that he wasnt the lead cast over will smith. will probably has in his contract that he needed a “better actor” than he is and makes them less than a shittier role so it make will feel superior. alan seems to have bad luck passed over for will smith, and resident alien getting cancelled.
There’s something ironic about him being able to act like a mature, stable adult on film back in the day but then doesn’t follow through to be genuine in the real day once he’s older
He’s been crap for years. He should fuck off and live in obscurity on the undeserved fortune he’s already accumulated.
The real victim here is Jaden. Imagine your dad not handing you movie roles anymore because he fucked his own career. So unfair.
I loved the Left 4 Dead 2 mod that replaced the game graffiti with Jaden tweets
I think I might be OOTL. Why does everyone here hate him? I know he slapped the comedian, but it didn’t seem SO unprovoked, and AFAIK its the only thing. It’s not great that he did that, but I wouldn’t hang him for that
assaulting someone is provacation, and it makes look like a petty aggressive human.
Unprovoked‽ Bro, dude is a known less than PC comedian they brought to HOST the ceremony. Idc if he said he fucked will Smith’s wife, that’s part of the act! Would say it’s unprovoked if some nobody walked on stage and slapped Jeff Acuri? Will Smith’s has suffered less than zero consequences as proven by this vanity tour.
Asking he go to jail for a month or two isn’t calling for him to be hanged. It’s calling for actual consequences from someone who performed an entirely unprovoked act of violence. Anybody not famous would probably spend close to a year in jail if they did that to any performer.
He’s very dated and shows no self awareness about that. He was always bland, fun rap, which is fine, but it’s not highly skilled. He also recently did a truly cringy music video where he’s in his 50s and perving after 20 year old. He just don’t seem to have moved forwards from the 90s
Oh my God. That was just…terrible.
I know. When I first saw the social media comments about it I thought they must be bring unfair. Then I saw the video…
Do you think the shark gets tired of being jumped over?
he’s rich. he never has to worry about anything in his life. he doesn’t “need” a comeback.
so he has to do is chill and enjoy life. and he’s still not happy???
He’s an actor. He needs an an audience. He wants to be remembered positively, hopefully for a very long time.
he can retire. i still think of MIB and Fresh prince when I hear his name.
he already won. just don’t fuck it up by being greedy
I think what the above commenter wants to say is that it’s not about greed but the attention. I think of HP Baxter from Scooter. Looong past his peak, but when you see his show live you see that he simply loves to be on stage with the crowd cheering and dancing. I don’t wanna defend attention whores in general, just explaining it a bit.
Why?
The guys a multi millionaire … it doesn’t matter if he had a come back or not, he’s still a millionaire.
You have to be a moron to want more than that.
He probably likes being famous.
Hes still famous. Hes just risking his legacy.
