Zoe Kravitz Reflects on Backlash Following Will Smith Oscars Comment: 'It's a Scary Time to Have an Opinion'
etonline.comZoe Kravitz has some second thoughts about the way she responded to Will Smith slapping Chris Rock onstage at the 2022 Oscars.In a since-deleted photo caption on social media from the Academy Awards earlier this year, she wrote: «Here's a picture of my dress at the show where we are apparently assaulting people on stage now.» The 33-year-old actress doubled down in a second post, «And here is a picture of my dress at the party after the award show — where we are apparently screaming profanities and assaulting people on stage now.»Now, Kravitz is addressing criticism she received from the flippant remarks in a cover story interview for 's Fall 2022 Women's Fashion Issue. «It's a scary time to have an opinion or to say the wrong thing or to make controversial art or statements or thoughts or anything,» she says.«It's mostly scary because art is about conversation,» Kravitz adds. «That should, in my opinion, always be the point.
The internet is the opposite of conversation. The internet is people putting things out and not taking anything in.»The actress and director admits that she has «very complicated feelings around it,» but acknowledges: «I wish I had handled that differently.
And that's OK.»Ultimately, she said, she's reminded that she's an artist and that «being an artist is not about everybody loving you or everyone thinking you're hot.» «It's about expressing something that will hopefully spark a conversation or inspire people or make them feel seen,» she says. «I think I'm in a place right now where I don't want to express myself through a caption or a tweet.
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