Pedro Almodóvar at the Vanity Fair party after the 94th Annual Academy Awards.
Photo: EFE/EPA/NINA PROMMER/EFE
Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, best known for films like ‘All About My Mother’ and ‘Pain and Glory’, expressed his disapproval of Will Smith’s slap in the face to Chris Rock at the 94th Academy Awards in a first-person chronicle published in elDiaro.es.
He called the incident “violent” and Smith’s speech “fundamentalist.” “I refuse to let this episode mark the gala and be the protagonist of a ceremony where a lot more things happened and were of a lot more interest,” he pointed out.
Incident between Will Smith and Chris Rock at the Oscars. / Photo: Etienne Laurent, EFE, EPA
In this letter, Almodóvar emphasizes that he was only four meters away from the altercation between the Oscar winner for best actor and the comedian. “In the overall chopped shots, I’m the little white head you see in the photo,” he said the fact unleashed by a rock joke in which he refers to the alopecia of Jada Pinkett Smith, the wife of the protagonist of “King Richard”.
The filmmaker explained “The family is not defended or protected by hosts, and no, the devil does not take advantage of the climactic moments to make his own.”having regard to Will Smith’s speech in which he asserted: “Denzel Washington warned me: the devil is coming for you at the last moment”.
Will Smith wins Best Actor Oscar after his incident with Chris Rock. / Photo: Etienne Laurent, EFE, EPA
“I was very close to the protagonists and what I saw and heard made me feel absolutely repelled,” said Pedro Almodóvar, opining that “the devil does not actually exist”, referring to the words of Will Smith and stressed it was “a fundamentalist speech that we shouldn’t have heard or seen”.
The director of “Madres Paralelas” reminds that there were important moments during the ceremony that this event cannot cover. He highlighted Drive My Car’s triumph as Best Foreign Film, which was “undoubtedly the best film of the year,” and Summer of Soul’s win as Best Documentary.
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