The repercussions of Best Actor winner Will Smith attacking presenter Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars are still being felt by Hollywood, especially Black stars.Emmy nominee David Oyelowo published a guest column for The Hollywood Reporter detailing the ripple effect of the now-infamous Oscars slap.
Oyelowo has been a bystander to a number of dramatic episodes at the Oscars, from “Selma” being snubbed for Best Actor and Best Director igniting #OscarsSoWhite in 2015 to his viral reaction to “La La Land” being mistakenly announced Best Picture.“But like most of us, nothing could have prepared me for what was to come,” Oyelowo wrote of the 94th annual Oscars.
“As a Black man in the public eye, you are constantly aware of the fact that your very existence is political.
You are consistently in a state of either being used as an example to perpetuate or debunk a stereotype.
Those stereotypes are tied to criminality,
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