The slap between celebrities, nothing excuses it – but should it astonish? In an environment subject to constant pressure, excess and loss of contact with reality, it is on the contrary very strange that all these people keep their calm so much all year long and that the cracks are so episodic. , even if they occur with some regularity. In a category similar to that which pitted Will Smith against Chris Rock on Sunday – “90s headliners tearing up over a spouse” and after which the Academy of Oscars announced the opening of a investigation – remember the 2007 MTV Awards tussle between redneck rapper Kid Rock and Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee over actress Pamela Anderson. Recently divorced from Kid Rock, she had come to the ceremony with Lee, her ex-husband with whom she had kept friendly ties. Honor supposedly flouted, virility misplaced: the mechanisms do not change either. Actor Jamie Foxx joked about the altercation, saying he had to “end violence among whites”.
«Bitch slapped»
In the cinema, if the cables very frequently let go in private (Shia LaBeouf, Kiefer Sutherland, Steve Buscemi or Paz de la Huerta have all been arrested for having started fights in bars), it is however rare that they settle their accounts during a ceremony, clearly preferring the discretion of film sets (Rob Lowe and Tom Cruise during the Outsiders by Coppola, George Clooney and director David O. Russell on the kings of the desertt, Richard Pryor and pretty much all the rest of the cast in the Blue Collar by Paul Schrader). Or television, where Quentin Tarantino had, in 1997, told with a vocabulary chosen in the talk show of the black comic Keenen Ivory Wayans how he had «bitch slapped» (“sniffed like a slut”) producer Don Murphy three times, to the point of ruining his watch strap – an anecdote that earned him a heartbreaking ovation from the show’s audience. The only scandal approaching that of the last Oscars took place in 2016 at the Filmfare Awards, a superlative rout of Indian cinema where actor Irrfan Khan, annoyed by the incessant bowing of the mega star Shah Rukh Khan towards the most commercial productions of Bollywood, had gone on stage to do battle… verbally. The two actors indeed sent spikes for about ten minutes, triggering the hilarity of the public.
Update Monday March 28 at 10 p.m. after the opening of an investigation.