Significant decline in popularity of “Will Smith”
Hollywood actor Will Smith’s popularity has plummeted since he attacked Chris Rock earlier this year, a new poll shows.
Charso Press: According to data provided to Variety by Q Scores, a company that surveys the power and attractiveness of stars and celebrities, Smith’s popularity was significantly affected by her slapping Chris Rock during a live broadcast. The 2022 Oscar ceremony has been televised.
“Smith”, 53, about an hour before receiving the 2022 Best Actor Oscar for his role in “King Richard”, the 57-year-old rock star joked about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s short hair and was greeted with a slap. The host of the Oscar ceremony left. It is still unclear whether Chris Rock knew about Jada Pinkett Smith’s alopecia.
About 1,800 Americans are polled twice a year on their feelings about celebrities. Will Smith has long ranked highly in the poll, consistently ranking in the top 10 along with actors like Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington, but between the January and June 2022 polls, “Smith” score has decreased from 39 to 24, which according to the executive vice president of “Q Score” company, is a very significant and severe drop.
Smith’s negative score increased from less than 10 to 26 (the average score is about 16 or 17) and his wife Pinkett Smith’s rating was also significantly affected, her positive score decreased from 13 to 6 and His negative score has increased from 29 to 44.
Meanwhile, Chris Rock’s scores remained constant and his positive score is still 20 and his negative score is 14, but his awareness rating increased from 66 to 84. The comedian has not yet officially spoken about the incident.
Smith apologized for his behavior the day after the Oscars and resigned from the Academy later that week. Two weeks later, the Academy banned him from the Academy Awards for a decade.
The actor then went silent until late July, when he again apologized in a video message to The Rock and his family, as well as the Best Documentary winners, whose moment in the spotlight at the Oscars was overshadowed by his slap to Chris. Rock” was placed. “There’s no part of me that thinks it was the right thing to do in that moment,” he says in the video. “No part of me thinks that’s the best way to deal with feeling disrespected or offended.”
Smith’s next film, Emancipation, is an Apple production in which he plays a real-life slave who escapes from a Louisiana plantation, and whose experiences help many abolitionist campaigns. This film was announced as one of the contenders for the 2023 Oscars, but its release has now been stopped.