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Actor Harry Lennix has called on Will Smith to ‘come to grips’ and return his Oscar after Chris Rock slapped him

Harry Lennix

Actor Harry Lennix has called on Will Smith to ‘come to grips’ and return his Oscar after Chris Rock slapped him

Harry Lennix is empowering Will Smith to deliberately return his Best Actor Oscar statuette to offer to set things right for his way of behaving at the current years’ service, when he hit Chris Rock in front of an audience.

Lennix, 57, an entertainer known his jobs in motion pictures like Ray and Justice League, wrote in an opinion piece for Variety that Smith, 53, “requirements to understand the gravity of the offense he submitted” and “expedited delivery his brilliant prize back to the Academy and freely state something with the impact of: ‘Keeping in mind the 94 years of honor presented upon this honor, I don’t in great heart feel deserving of being its caretaker.’ ”

“Now, the main individual who can reclaim the uprightness of the Oscars is Smith himself,” Lennix composed, adding, “Smith’s severity stripped the whole evening of its renown.”

“The stain on the Motion Picture Academy won’t be quickly remediated. The main expect a reasonable beauty should include Smith intentionally returning his honor for best entertainer,” The Blacklist star added.

Smith, who won for his presentation in King Richard, has openly apologized for his “unsatisfactory and indefensible” conduct.

He additionally left the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

The Academy’s leading body of lead representatives casted a ballot to forbid him from going to the Oscars service – face to face and practically – for the following 10 years. Smith said accordingly: “I acknowledge and regard the Academy’s choice.”

Lennix composed that he feels the very long-term boycott is “minimal in excess of a drawn-out opportunity for a jungle gym menace; an innocuous punishment uncovers the shallowness of Hollywood ethics.”