Actor Daniel Radcliffe trended on Twitter Thursday after selecting to not weigh in on the controversy over Will Smith's slapping of Chris Rock on the Oscars ceremony Sunday.
In an interview on Good Morning Britain to advertise his new film, The Misplaced Metropolis, Radcliffe declined to touch upon the scenario.
"I am simply so already dramatically bored of listening to folks's opinions about it that I simply do not need to be one other opinion including to it," he mentioned.
After Smith slapped Rock onstage for making a joke about his spouse Jada Pinkett Smith's shaved head, many Hollywood celebrities have put of their two cents. Some, like actress Zoe Kravitz, condemned his actions, whereas others, like former One Path member Liam Payne, expressed help for him.
With so many individuals circuitously concerned within the controversy expressing their opinions on it, Radcliffe's determination to not communicate acquired reward on social media. One Twitter consumer wrote that Radcliffe's response "is strictly what everybody else must be doing."
"Daniel Radcliffe is quite a lot of us proper now," one other consumer wrote. "There are quite a lot of extra necessary issues taking place in our society and the world, I do not get why this continues to be within the headlines 4 days later."
Greater than 14,000 folks wrote concerning the Harry Potter actor on Twitter following his remark, indicating that many agreed with him.
Throughout the Good Morning Britain interview, he additionally talked about what it was prefer to attend awards ceremonies and listen to jokes made at his expense.
"Whenever you're happening stuff as a child, you are by no means fairly positive if the joke's with you otherwise you're the butt of the joke," Radcliffe mentioned. "So that you kind of have a mode of simply being like, 'I am going to simply hold smiling and laughing and possibly it will finish quickly.'"
Smith appeared to chuckle initially after Rock made the joke referring to Pinkett Smith's shaved head, which is a response to alopecia, an autoimmune illness that causes hair loss. However he then acquired up on the stage and slapped Rock, yelling "hold my spouse's title out your f***ing mouth" after returning to his seat.
A number of days later, Rock mentioned he was "nonetheless processing" the incident at certainly one of his comedy exhibits. Smith made a public apology to Rock, saying, "I used to be out of line and I used to be unsuitable."
"I'm embarrassed and my actions weren't indicative of the person I need to be," Smith wrote. "There is no such thing as a place for violence in a world of affection and kindness."
The academy mentioned it has launched a proper evaluation of Smith's actions on the awards present and "will discover additional motion and penalties in accordance with our Bylaws, Requirements of Conduct and California legislation."
Replace 03/31/22, 12:50 p.m. ET: This story was up to date so as to add extra data and background.
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