G.I. Jane

The actor appeared to take issue with the comedian's joke about wife Jada Pinkett-Smith.

“I want to be a vessel for love,” Smith said through tears. Later in the evening, Smith won best actor for his role as Richard Williams, father to Venus and Serena, in King Richard. The 53-year-old actor praised the real inspiration for his character as “a fierce defender of his family” to whoops from the audience. Tonight we are delighted to celebrate our 94th Academy Awards winners, who deserve this moment of recognition from their peers and movie lovers around the world.” Smith said just before his win, Denzel Washington told him: “At your highest moment, be careful, that’s when the devil comes for you.” Will appears to wipe tears from his eyes as he sits back down with Jada, with Denzel comforting Jada and Will’s rep by his side.” Smith then said “Keep my wife’s name out of your fucking mouth” twice as the telecast glitched for American viewers.

Right before the announcement of winners for the night's big categories, there was an altercation between nominee (and eventual Best Actor winner) Will Smith ...

Do you have a story you want us to feature? “Now, this is going to be a little bit more difficult for me to hide. Sadly, the film didn’t perform well at the box office and was included in the 18th Golden Raspberry Awards, a parody award show, from Moore’s performance. Me and this alopecia are going to be friends … period!” Baffled about what’s the connection between Pinkett Smith and ‘G.I Jane’? Well, it is because the actress has recently shaved her head. If you thought the Oscars this year was a snoozefest, think again.

Chris Rock's joke at The Oscars wasn't found funny by all, and Jada's husband Will stormed on to stage and hit him across the face.

Me and this alopecia are going to be friends … period!" Just all of a sudden, one day…it just showed up like that," she said. He added: "It’s not fair that Will was this good and didn’t get nominated. "Now at this point, I can only laugh… Later on in the evening, Will went on to win his first Oscar for his performance in King Richard and apologised on stage for his previous actions. Will Smith left viewers of the Oscars 2022 speechless as he got up on to the stage and smacked comedian Chris Rock in the face.

My first reaction to Chris Rock making a G.I. Jane joke at the Oscars about Jada Pinkett Smith's hair was shock. Not because I was offended on her behalf ...

Probably G.I. Jane’s subject matter, the integration of women into the U.S. Military and the question of whether both genders were equally qualified to serve in combat, had something to do with it too. With so little of O’Neal’s emotions or motivations onscreen in its second half, G.I. Jane feels more like a formulaic military thriller than like a fully realized study of this character and a complex social issue. The scenes between Moore and Bancroft, and between Bancroft’s character and various other Washington power players, are interesting, and so is O’Neal’s drive to prove herself. Scott might have wanted to show the way military schools strip people of their individuality until all that’s left is ruthless, single-minded killer instinct. Forget the abuse from sexist peers or commanding officers; no man or woman alive would want to subject themselves to the officially sanctioned parts of SEAL training, which includes waterboarding and other forms of simulated torture. During a conformation hearing for the new Secretary of the Navy, a female U.S. Senator (Anne Bancroft) publicly complains about the lack of gender equality in the Armed Forces. Behind the scenes, she uses the controversy to get the military to agree to a handful of test cases that would determine whether women are physically and mentally qualified to fully integrate into the Navy. Essentially, G.I. Jane is the other Scott brother’s version of Top Gun; a tale of brotherhood and intrigue inside a cutthroat military training facility. But little by little, O’Neil wins over her teammates as well as the Master Chief of the school, Jack Urgayle (played by Viggo Mortensen in a performance that suggests what it might look like if Christopher Walken imitated R. Lee Ermey). Letterman was intrigued too; he spent the next minute of the interview vigorously rubbing Moore’s head and quipping “don’t take this the wrong way but you look like a guy I went to high school with.“ Not because I was offended on her behalf — I didn’t even know Pinkett Smith suffered from alopecia until later — but because I couldn’t believe a comedian as talented and as smart as Chris Rock would stoop to such a dated, hackneyed reference. It feels extreme to call Moore’s G.I. Jane haircut a scandal, but it certainly was a huge deal in the media. (The 2022 Oscars inexplicably decided not to honor its silver anniversary alongside its endless tributes to The Godfather, Juno, Pulp Fiction, and every James Bond movie ever made.)

After a tense, emotionally draining month of war news out of Ukraine, the Oscars did what it's always done so well: distract us with trivial spectacle.

In the wake of the theater-shuttering coronavirus pandemic and the relentless rise of “Prestige TV,” there’s been a lot of handwringing about the movies’ -- and the Oscars’ -- decline. Like, dude, you just slapped someone, just own up to it and leave other people out of it.” The immediate commentary on the slap has framed it as a Hollywood family spat: Smith vs. Smith’s actions clearly have brought the Oscars back into the forefront of Americans’ minds, at least temporarily. That includes the couple discussing on a 2020 TV talk show Pinkett Smith’s romantic “entanglement” with singer August Alsina, when she and Smith reportedly were separated. “Richard Williams was a fierce defender of his family,” Smith said in his acceptance speech.

Will Smith took to the stage to hit Chris Rock after he made a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith's shaved head. By Rhona Shennan. Monday, 28th March 2022, ...

“So it just showed up like that and this is going to be a little bit more difficult for me to hide. NationalWorld is a new national news brand, produced by a team of journalists, editors, video producers and designers who live and work across the UK. Find out more about who’s who in the team, and our editorial values. We want to start a community among our readers, so please follow us on sign up to our newsletters and get a curated selection of our best reads to your inbox every day. You all know I’ve been struggling with alopecia and just all of a sudden one day, look at this line right here. Treatment for alopecia will generally depend on what type of alopecia a person is suffering from. It’s not easy to talk about, but I’m going to talk about it.” Pinkett Smith was diagnosed with alopecia in 2018. - Androgenetic alopecia, which is male and female pattern hair loss. She said: “Now, at this point, I can only laugh. Pinkett Smith continued: “I was in the shower one day and had just handfuls of hair in my hands, and I was just like, “Oh my god, am I going bald?” It was one of those times in my life where I was literally shaking with fear. Well, I haven’t talked about it. BAD says that, with alopecia areata, it is “not possible to predict how much hair will be lost” and that “regrowth of hair in typical alopecia areata is usual over a period of months or sometimes years, but cannot be guaranteed”.