Jim Carrey Explains Comment On Will Smith Oscars Slap: ‘I Don’t Condemn Him For It’

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Jim Carrey is expanding on his first reaction to the incident with Will Smith at the 2022 Academy Awards. The star had a very negative response to the event initially, calling it “sickening” on “CBS Mornings” Tuesday.

He once again gave his thoughts on the situation in an interview with the Associated Press, but called it part of a “larger issue.” READ MORE: Jada Pinkett Smith Appears To Laugh In Reaction To Will Smith Slap In New Video “I see it as a larger issue, and it’s an issue of the boundaries being broken – boundaries and allowances and permissiveness to certain behaviours,” Carrey told the outlet, while promoting “Sonic the Hedgehog 2”. “The fact is that license is being given to people to act out violently when they don’t like what they hear.

And it just shouldn’t be.” While the star decried the violent act, he wasn’t without empathy for Smith. “I also think that people not unlike Will, or myself, we live in a lot of pressure,” he continued. “We set up a lot of pressure for ourselves, [and] we’re encouraged by this country to never stop and never be satisfied and never look at our lives and going, ‘You know what?

I’m enough. I have enough. I’ve done enough. I don’t need nine businesses. I don’t need to be a movie producer, director, writer, actor, star and have a record company, and be on TikTok, and be on social media, and have a reality show and share my inner-most life on some therapy show.'” READ MORE: The Academy Says Will Smith Was Asked To Leave The Oscars Ceremony But Refused Carrey saw the slap as a result of all this unaddressed pressure and was worried about Smith. “It’s beyond our bandwidth.