Will Smith Skipping Oscars, Will Smith has accepted he will not be accessory the Academy Awards. The 'Concussion' amateur has accepted he is continuing alongside wife Jada Pinkett Smith - who ahead appear she was boycotting the commemoration over its abridgement of assortment - in not demography his bench at next month's Oscars, acceptance it would be "awkward" if he absitively to go.
Asked if he'll be attending, he told 'Good Morning America': "No, my wife's not going. It would be awkward for me to appearance up with Charlize (Theron).
"We've discussed it. We're allotment of this community, but at this accepted time, we're afflictive to angle there and say that this is OK."
While 47-year-old Will is actual "proud" of his wife's stance, he admits he had no abstraction she was planning to abode the affair until afterwards she batten out online.
He laughed: "I was out of the country at the time. And I came home, 'What happened?'
"She's acutely passionate, and if she is moved, she has to go.
"I heard her words and I was agape over. I was blessed to be affiliated to that woman.
"There's a position that we authority in this community, and if we're not a allotment of the solution, we're allotment of the problem. And it was her alarm to activity for herself and for me and for our ancestors to be a allotment of the solution."
Will himself had been angled for a Best Amateur nomination, but the amateur insists his wife didn't yield the attitude she did because he was snubbed.
He said: "There's apparently a allotment of that in there, but for Jada, had I been nominated, and no added humans of colour were, she would've fabricated the video anyway.
"This is so acutely not about me. This is about accouchement that are traveling to sit down, and they're traveling to watch the show, and they're not traveling to see themselves represented.",
Asked if he'll be attending, he told 'Good Morning America': "No, my wife's not going. It would be awkward for me to appearance up with Charlize (Theron).
"We've discussed it. We're allotment of this community, but at this accepted time, we're afflictive to angle there and say that this is OK."
While 47-year-old Will is actual "proud" of his wife's stance, he admits he had no abstraction she was planning to abode the affair until afterwards she batten out online.
He laughed: "I was out of the country at the time. And I came home, 'What happened?'
"She's acutely passionate, and if she is moved, she has to go.
"I heard her words and I was agape over. I was blessed to be affiliated to that woman.
"There's a position that we authority in this community, and if we're not a allotment of the solution, we're allotment of the problem. And it was her alarm to activity for herself and for me and for our ancestors to be a allotment of the solution."
Will himself had been angled for a Best Amateur nomination, but the amateur insists his wife didn't yield the attitude she did because he was snubbed.
He said: "There's apparently a allotment of that in there, but for Jada, had I been nominated, and no added humans of colour were, she would've fabricated the video anyway.
"This is so acutely not about me. This is about accouchement that are traveling to sit down, and they're traveling to watch the show, and they're not traveling to see themselves represented.",
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