“not a piece of s–t” after “gaining clarity” during his recent mini-prison stint — but many viewers of the 2022 BET Awards aren’t ready to let him off the hook just yet.
Smollett, 40, made his controversial return to the red carpet at Sunday Los Angeles’ Microsoft Theater — after being sprung in March when he served only six days of his 150-day sentence in March for five counts of felony disorderly conduct at Cook County Jail in Chicago.The 2015 BET nominee for best actor was ostensibly there to hype his directorial debut with BET+ streaming flick “B-Boy Blues” — but he announced some other big plans, too.“This has always been the plan, to expand my empire, so to speak,” Smollett expounded to the press corps on the scene, the Daily Mail reported. “To expand the level of what I want to do.
I got to direct multiple episodes of the show as well as my music videos, I directed all of them.”And despite his high-profile fall from grace — he was convicted of paying two men to pretend to be racist-homophobic MAGA supporters and attack him with a noose and bleach — Smollett still seems to consider himself something of a role model for the youths.“But to be able to usher in just a new generation of artists of actors of this amazing talent that’s out there that has so much to tell you,” Smollett told reporters.
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