0:02 We in America are misinformed.
0:05 Reality shows have warped our idea of
0:09 what a hero is or what the truth is.
0:11 >> You I don't want to be this character anymore.
0:13 anymore.
0:15 >> Who wants to even see us a movie about
0:18 some with some stereo
0:20 stereotypical characters? [music] What's
0:22 this always talking about keep it real?
0:25 We 25 years of keeping it real and being
0:26 real and all that. You really see that's
0:28 reflected in the movies that they made.
0:31 [music] the characters are trying to be
0:33 reflective of, you know, people in
0:37 society and the the the uh stereotype,
0:40 especially some stereotype
0:44 successful. That's gone. I ain't seen no
0:46 stereotypical that was successful since
0:47 the 70s.
0:49 >> Jim Carrey and Eddie Murphy are two big
0:51 names in comedy that you just can't
0:52 ignore. They aren't just random
0:54 celebrities who decided to expose Will
0:56 Smith for fun. These are two of the most
0:58 important figures in comedic history.
1:00 Carrie basically reinvented what it
1:02 meant to be a movie star in the 90s with
1:03 his over-the-top energy and willingness
1:06 to be completely absurd. Meanwhile,
1:07 Eddie Murphy was literally shaping
1:09 comedy before Carrie was even famous.
1:12 Eddie Murphy delirious raw. Although
1:13 stand-up specials changed the game
1:15 forever. These aren't bitter rivals
1:17 trying to get attention. These are two
1:19 men who built empires on their own terms
1:22 and have nothing to gain and nothing to
1:24 lose by saying what they said. Like for
1:27 years now, talk show hosts, people on
1:29 television, people in sitcoms have been
1:32 hired by the government to throw you off
1:34 the track, to distract you, to make you
1:36 laugh and stuff like that, make you
1:38 happy and docel so you don't know what's
1:39 really going on.
1:41 >> For three decades, Will Smith was part
1:44 of Hollywood's elite circle. His movies
1:46 grossed over 9 billion worldwide.
1:48 Studios would bend over backwards to
1:51 keep him happy. Awards shows would roll
1:53 out the red carpet for him. The media
1:54 treated him like this perfect family man
1:56 who had figured out everything. But
1:58 here's the thing about Hollywood. When
2:00 it comes to protecting people, it's not
2:02 about friendship. And it's definitely
2:04 not about morals. It's about money. As
2:06 long as Will Smith was making those
2:07 folks rich, nobody was going to say
2:09 anything about his behavior or his
2:11 marriage or any of the weird stuff that
2:12 he was doing with his kids.
2:23 ARE YOU OKAY? ARE YOU OKAY?
2:25 >> OH MY GOD, THIS IS RIDICULOUS.
2:26 >> But then the Oscars happened. [music]
2:28 The standing ovation that Will Smith got
2:30 after slapping Chris Rock was the moment
2:32 that broke the spell. It was so obvious
2:34 that the industry was prioritizing
2:36 profit over principal. They were
2:38 applauding his toxic masculinity because
2:40 the guy doing the violence made them too
2:42 much money to criticize. And that's when
2:44 Jim Carrey said something that basically
2:46 everyone was thinking. He revealed he
2:48 was sickened after seeing Smith's behavior.
2:48 behavior.
2:50 >> I was sickened. I was sickened by the
2:53 standing ovation. I felt like Hollywood
2:58 is just spineless on mass and uh it just
3:01 it really felt like oh this is a really
3:03 clear indication that we're not the cool
3:04 club anymore.
3:06 >> We all saw a wall of protection built up
3:08 around Will Smith. Anytime something
3:10 weird happened, anytime there were
3:12 rumors, anytime people wanted to ask
3:14 questions, the industry collectively
3:16 decided to look the other way because
3:17 why wouldn't they? He made them too much
3:19 money to risk. [music] And that's
3:20 exactly what Jim Carrey was pointing out
3:23 when he called Hollywood spineless. The
3:25 standing ovation wasn't about supporting
3:27 Will Smith. It was about protecting the
3:28 investment. It was about sending a
3:30 message that says, "We don't care what
3:32 you do as long as you keep making us
3:34 rich." But here's the thing about live
3:36 television. You can't edit it. And once
3:38 that moment happened, there was no going
3:40 back. The corruption became visible. If
3:42 you want to yell from the audience and
3:44 disapprove or show a disapproval or say
3:46 something on Twitter or whatever, you
3:48 you know, you do not have the right to
3:50 to walk up on stage and smack somebody
3:52 in the face cuz they said words.
3:53 >> Jim Carrey didn't just stop at
3:55 criticizing the industry's reaction to
3:58 the Oscar incident. He went deeper and
3:59 actually analyzed what he thought was
4:01 going on with Will Smith personally. And
4:03 this is where it gets really interesting
4:05 because Carrie, in his typical
4:07 philosophical way, went straight to the
4:09 psychological root of the situation. He
4:10 said [music] the whole thing wasn't
4:12 about defending Jada. It was about
4:14 frustration. Pure ego-driven
4:16 frustration. He talked about how Will
4:18 Smith created this image of himself over
4:20 decades and [music] he's trapped inside
4:22 it. Carrie essentially called it an
4:24 avatar. This fake identity that demands
4:26 constant validation that needs everyone
4:28 to see him as a protector. And when
4:30 Chris Rock made a joke about Jada, it
4:32 wasn't just a joke to Will Smith. It was
4:35 an attack on his avatar. It was someone
4:36 pulling back the curtain on the image
4:38 he'd spent 30 years building. and his
4:40 reaction was to protect that image at
4:42 all costs, even if it meant slapping
4:44 someone on live television.
4:45 >> It didn't escalate.
4:47 >> It came out of nowhere because Will has
4:49 something going on inside him that's
4:52 frustrated. And I I I wish him the best.
4:54 I really do. I don't I don't, [music]
4:55 you know,
4:56 >> I don't have anything against Will Smith.
4:57 Smith.
4:59 >> Now, if Jim Carrey was the philosopher
5:01 breaking down the psychology behind what
5:02 happened, Eddie Murphy was doing
5:04 something else. At the 81st Golden
5:06 Globes Awards, while Eddie was receiving
5:08 the Cesile Deil Award, which is
5:10 basically a lifetime achievement award
5:12 for his outstanding contributions in
5:14 entertainment, he dropped what might be
5:16 the most devastating punchline in recent
5:18 awards show history.
5:24 mind your business,
5:33 >> This wasn't just a joke. This was a
5:35 calculated jab at Will Smith. And here's
5:37 why this moment was so devastating.
5:39 Eddie Murphy doesn't do awards shows. He
5:40 doesn't do press. And he doesn't
5:42 participate in the Hollywood machine in
5:44 [music] any way. He famously hates all
5:46 this stuff. He once said, "One of the
5:48 reasons why I don't go to award shows
5:50 and stuff, the feeling of being in a
5:51 room full of famous people who all want
5:53 to win some trophy." That feeling is
5:56 such a tie feeling. Everybody's dressed
5:58 and acting and fake. Just being in a
5:59 room full of famous people is just
6:01 weird. I don't like it. So, when a guy
6:03 who has spent decades staying away from
6:05 all this Hollywood nonsense suddenly
6:07 decides to show up, accept an award, and
6:09 then use his platform to take a direct
6:10 shot at Will Smith, people pay
6:12 attention. It wasn't some comedian
6:14 trying to get viral clips. This was
6:16 Eddie Murphy, one of the architects of
6:18 modern comedy, [music] saying something
6:19 that needed to be said.
6:21 >> You just sat up there and said, "46
6:23 years in the business, 41 years doing
6:25 movies, and your career was a success
6:26 because you kept Will Smith's wife name
6:28 out your mouth."
6:30 >> Yeah. [laughter]
6:31 No, I said that's the that's the blueprint.
6:32 blueprint.
6:33 >> To really understand what Eddie was
6:35 doing that night, we got to go back to
6:38 2007 Oscars. Murphy lost best supporting
6:39 actor for Dream Girls to Alan [music]
6:42 Arin. And what did he do? He got up and
6:43 walked out. People called him a sore
6:45 loser, but Murphy's explanation was
6:47 simple. He wasn't going to sit there and
6:49 play the sympathy guy for the cameras.
6:50 He wasn't going to give them his real
6:52 disappointment as content for their
6:54 show. That moment says everything you
6:56 need to know about Eddie Murphy's
6:57 relationship with Hollywood Awards
6:59 culture. He thinks it's fake. He thinks
7:01 everyone is just acting and performing
7:03 and being something they're not. And he
7:05 wants no part of it. So when he finally
7:07 does show up at Golden Globes to accept
7:09 an award that he couldn't really refuse,
7:12 what does he do? He uses it to call out
7:14 the exact kind of nonsense that he's
7:16 been criticizing for years. Will Smith
7:18 with his Red Table Talk and his public
7:20 displays of emotion and his crying
7:21 acceptance speeches is basically the
7:23 poster child for everything Murphy hates
7:25 about Hollywood celebrities. And that's
7:27 where Red Table Talk comes in. Because
7:29 if you want to understand why Eddie
7:31 Murphy and Jim Carrey both had issues
7:33 with the Smiths, you got to look at what
7:34 that show was doing.
7:37 >> I really felt like we could be over, you know.
7:37 know.
7:39 >> Yeah. No, we were over.
7:40 >> And then what did you do, Jada?
7:44 >> Well, you know, I think from there, you
7:47 know, as time went on, I got into a
7:49 different kind of entanglement [music]
7:52 >> with August. Remember this episode where
7:53 Jada admitted she'd had a relationship
7:55 with August Alcena while she and Will
7:57 were separated and Will was sitting
7:59 there [music] like he was this hurt
8:00 husband who was going to forgive his
8:02 wife. The whole thing became a meme.
8:04 People were mocking their whole act. But
8:06 here's the thing that Carrie and Murphy
8:08 point out. This whole interview was a PR
8:10 stunt. It was a calculated decision to
8:12 turn their marriage problems to monetize
8:15 their pain to make Will Smith a victim
8:16 and a long-suffering husband who was
8:18 going to forgive his weward wife. You
8:21 and I were going through a very
8:22 difficult time. >> Yeah.
8:22 >> Yeah.
8:23 >> And we decided
8:24 >> I was done with your ass.
8:25 >> Yeah. You kicked me to the curb.
8:27 >> I was done with you.
8:28 >> Yeah. [laughter] >> We
8:28 >> We
8:29 >> Marriages have that though.
8:31 >> By being the one who forgives. By being
8:33 the one who cries on camera, will
8:35 controlled the narrative. He became the
8:37 hero of his own scandal. All those weird
8:39 rumors about his own relationship with
8:41 other men suddenly got buried under the
8:43 buzz of this interview. And that's what
8:44 Jim Carrey meant when he talked about
8:46 the fake image that Will Smith has
8:48 created. I think that it it showed me
8:50 that there were characters being played
8:52 everywhere that [music] you know that as
8:55 an actor you play characters and then if
8:57 you go deep enough into those characters
8:59 you realize that your own character is
9:00 pretty thin to begin with.
9:02 >> So now that both Carrie and Murphy have
9:04 basically opened the floodgates,
9:06 everyone's starting to ask questions
9:08 that nobody wanted to ask before. And
9:09 that's where we're going next because
9:11 there's a whole lot of stuff that's been
9:12 floating around on the internet that
9:14 suddenly feels like it deserves a closer
9:16 look. Let's start with this guy, brother
9:18 Bilal, who worked as Will Smith's
9:20 assistant. And according to what Bilal
9:22 has claimed, he walked in on Will and
9:24 Dwayne Martin doing in a hotel room.
9:26 Now, you might be thinking, why should I
9:28 believe this? But here's the thing about
9:29 Hollywood assistants. They see
9:31 everything. They're in the car. They're
9:33 in the house. They're around when
9:35 regular people aren't. And sometimes
9:37 [music] when they leave those jobs, they
9:38 share personal stories.
9:41 >> This is unlike him, right? [music] So I
9:44 I open the um door to Dwayne's dressing
9:46 room and that's when I see Dwayne and
9:48 [music] having anal sex will
9:50 >> let me process that for a second.
9:52 >> There was a couch and um Will was bent
9:54 over on the couch and Dwayne was
9:57 standing up killing him. Murder like
9:59 murder. It was murder in there.
10:00 >> The reason these allegations keep
10:02 resurfacing isn't because people are
10:04 making stuff up. It's because they hold
10:06 some truth. Jaguar Wright has said that
10:08 Will and Jada do weird rituals in their
10:10 home and that young men who came to them
10:12 for mentorship ended up fleeing in distress.
10:13 distress.
10:16 >> THEY'RE BOTH BY THEY DO WEIRD things in
10:18 their house and young men have left
10:21 their house screaming to get away from
10:22 them in their mentorship.
10:24 >> That's a heavy allegation and she's not
10:27 some random person. She's someone who
10:29 actually exposed Diddy a long time ago.
10:30 The reason I'm including this stuff
10:32 isn't because I have a vendetta against
10:34 Will Smith. It's because when two comedy
10:36 legends like Jim Carrey and Eddie Murphy
10:38 start making comments, suddenly all
10:39 these stories that were buried start
10:41 getting attention. Here's one that goes
10:43 way back. Alexis Arquette was an actor
10:45 from the Arquette family and before
10:47 passing away, she made a claim about
10:49 Will Smith's first marriage. Will was
10:52 married to Sheri Zampino back in the
10:54 early 90s and that marriage ended very
10:56 quickly. But according to Alexis, the
10:58 real reason behind this was [music] that
11:00 Sheri caught Will doing something very
11:02 messy with his manager Benny Medina.
11:04 Now, this was during the height of
11:06 Hollywood's silent era. Nobody talked
11:07 about this stuff openly. And [music]
11:09 honestly, for a guy whose entire image
11:11 was built on being this perfect family
11:13 man, having a rumor like this would be
11:15 devastating to his brand. But let's talk
11:17 about something that happened way before
11:19 any of this recent drama. Something that
11:21 actually happened on a TV set in 1993
11:23 [music] during the filming of The Fresh
11:25 Prince of Belair. Because looking back,
11:26 this might have been the first real
11:28 warning sign that people chose to ignore.
11:28 ignore.
11:30 >> And y'all need to get over yourselves.
11:33 You have a huge production company that
11:35 you only produce your friends, your
11:38 family, and yourself. So, you are a part
11:40 of Hollywood. You are a part of the
11:43 system that is unfair to other actors.
11:46 Janet Hubert played Aunt Vivien for the
11:48 first three seasons of Fresh Prince. And
11:49 then suddenly she was replaced by
11:51 Daffhne Maxwell Reed. And the official
11:53 story, the one that got published
11:55 everywhere, was that Janet Hubert was
11:57 difficult, unprofessional, and wanted to
11:59 be the star of the show. Basically the
12:01 classic Hollywood story of the evil
12:03 black woman. But here's what really
12:05 happened. According to Janet, she had a
12:07 contract dispute. She was asking for
12:09 fair pay and when she refused to take a
12:11 bad deal, the machine turned against her
12:13 and Will Smith instead of supporting his
12:15 co-star led the charge in branding her
12:17 as the [music] problem. In a reunion
12:19 episode, Janet shared the whole story
12:21 sitting beside Will Smith.
12:23 >> You know, words [music] can kill. >> Mhm.
12:24 >> Mhm.
12:27 >> I lost everything. Reputation,
12:30 everything. everything. And I understand
12:32 you were able to move forward, but you
12:34 know those words, calling a black woman
12:35 difficult [music]
12:37 >> in Hollywood is the kiss of death. >> Mhm.
12:37 >> Mhm.
12:39 >> It's the kiss of death. And it's hard
12:41 enough being a dark-skinned black woman. >> Mhm.
12:41 >> Mhm.
12:43 >> In this business.
12:45 >> Now, let's jump forward to 2012 when
12:48 Will was filming Men in Black 3 in New
12:50 York City. And this story is kind of
12:52 wild. So, Will Smith, despite having a
12:54 luxury apartment in the city, demanded
12:56 that production rent him a massive
12:58 double-decker trailer unit. We're
13:00 talking about a 53- ft thing that cost
13:03 $2 million. It had a full gym inside and
13:05 was parked on the streets of Soho,
13:07 blocking traffic, blocking businesses,
13:09 and creating a nightmare for residents
13:11 with noise and fumes. When complaints
13:13 started coming in, Will Smith refused to
13:16 move his stuff. This guy who has
13:17 hundreds of millions of dollars, who
13:19 could have just taken a car to a nice
13:22 hotel or used the apartment he already
13:24 owned, insisted on keeping this massive
13:26 trailer parked in a residential
13:28 neighborhood because that's what he
13:30 wanted. This isn't just celebrity
13:32 privilege. This is a man who genuinely
13:34 believed the rules didn't apply to him.
13:35 That's a mindset that develops when
13:37 you've been protected for 30 years and
13:39 told you're too special in the industry.
13:41 But moving ahead, let's talk about what
13:43 happened after the Oscars slap. from a
13:45 legal standpoint because this is
13:46 something Jim Carrey brought up that I
13:48 think is worth exploring. Chris Rock
13:50 could have pressed charges. What Smith
13:52 did was assault. It was caught on camera
13:54 and it was witnessed by millions of
13:56 people, but Chris Rock decided not to
13:58 file charges to avoid the hassle. And
13:59 going through a legal process,
14:01 especially when you're a celebrity, is
14:03 exhausting. You become a target for
14:05 trolls and for all kinds of nonsense.
14:07 However, Jim Carrey had a different
14:09 perspective. He said if it was him, he
14:12 would have filed a $200 million lawsuit
14:13 because the video of what happened is
14:15 going to exist forever and the person
14:17 who assaulted you should have to pay for that.
14:18 that.
14:19 >> They asked Chris, "Do you want to file
14:20 charges?" And Chris apparently said,
14:22 "No, he did not."
14:25 >> He doesn't want the hassle. I I for
14:27 announced this morning that I was suing
14:30 Will for $200 million cuz that video is
14:32 going to be there forever. It's going to
14:36 be ubiquitous. You know that insult is
14:38 going to last a very long time.
14:39 >> By not holding Smith legally
14:41 accountable, fans received an indirect
14:44 hint that violence has consequences, but
14:46 not if you're rich enough. There's also
14:48 this bigger issue of what this means for
14:50 comedy itself. Chris Rock is one of the
14:52 greatest comedians of all time. Eddie
14:54 Murphy is another. Dave Chappelle is
14:56 another. And what they all understand is
14:58 that there's this unwritten contract
15:00 between comedians and audiences. The
15:02 comedian is supposed to push boundaries.
15:04 The audience is supposed to laugh.
15:05 That's how the art form works. When
15:07 someone walks up on stage and assaults a
15:09 comedian for a joke, they're attacking
15:11 the entire craft. [music] And that
15:12 should scare everyone who values free
15:14 speech and artistic expression.
15:18 >> Chris is one of those comics that
15:21 he and Chappelle are the goats. And
15:23 they're like the youngest, oldest comics
15:24 in the world. They've been doing it
15:26 since they were kids. And I think, you
15:28 know, the contract you set up with the
15:29 audience is that these are indeed jokes
15:31 and we have to embrace our freedom of speech.
15:32 speech.
15:33 >> Here's what experts have been saying
15:35 about Will Smith's psychology because
15:37 this stuff is fascinating and also kind
15:40 of disturbing. Doug Ellen, the creator
15:42 of Entourage, tweeted something after
15:44 the Oscars incident went viral. He
15:47 called Smith a gaslighting who made the
15:49 entire night about himself. And that's a
15:51 heavy label, but when you break it down,
15:53 it makes a lot of sense. A gaslighting
15:55 narcissist is someone who manipulates
15:57 situations to make themselves the
15:59 victim, who twists narratives to serve
16:01 their image, who makes everything about
16:03 them even when [music] it's not. And
16:04 when you look at Smith's behavior, it's
16:06 all designed to position him as the hero
16:08 of his own story. This is what Jim
16:10 Carrey was getting at with his Avatar
16:12 theory. Smith spent 30 years building
16:14 this perfect image, the Fresh Prince,
16:17 the Family Man, the actor who only does
16:19 uplifting movies. And somewhere along
16:21 the way, the image became more real than
16:23 the person. He stopped being a human
16:25 being with flaws and became a product
16:27 that needed constant maintenance.
16:29 >> Your body needs to be depressed.
16:31 >> It needs deep rest from the character
16:33 that you've been trying to play. [music]
16:35 >> The tension between Jim Carrey and Will
16:37 Smith didn't start with the Oscars. It
16:40 goes back decades. In the mid 1990s,
16:42 Carrie was this wild, unpredictable guy
16:43 who had just exploded onto the scene
16:45 with Ace Ventura. That movie was
16:47 massive, like way bigger than anyone
16:49 expected. And right on its heels came
16:51 The Mask, which became an absolute
16:54 phenomenon. We're talking over $350
16:56 million worldwide. This was the era when
16:59 Carrie was everywhere, doing interviews,
17:01 making weird faces, being completely and
17:03 utterly himself. Now, here's where it
17:05 gets interesting. [music] Around that
17:07 same time, Will Smith was trying to
17:09 transition from music to movies. The
17:11 Fresh Prince was huge on TV, but he
17:13 hadn't really cracked movies yet. And
17:15 apparently when they were casting The
17:17 Mask, Smith was one of the actors being
17:18 considered for the role of Stanley
17:21 Ipkis. But here's what allegedly
17:23 happened next. Smith basically wasn't
17:25 too happy about losing that role to
17:27 Carrie. And this was happening at the
17:28 same time when Carrie was basically
17:30 becoming the biggest comedy star on the
17:32 planet while Smith was still trying to
17:34 figure out his movie career. You've got
17:36 to imagine that situation. [music] Smith
17:38 had been famous since he was a teenager
17:40 and suddenly there's this new guy
17:42 stealing the spotlight. Some people say
17:43 that Smith never forgave Carrie for that
17:45 moment. The role that Carrie got became
17:48 a massive hit and cemented his status as
17:50 a top tier movie star. Smith had to wait
17:52 a little longer for his breakthrough
17:53 with movies like Bad Boys and
17:55 Independence Day coming a couple of
17:57 years later. But those two, three years
17:59 of waiting, they created bitterness.
18:02 >> I I don't believe in icons. Uh I don't
18:04 believe in personalities. I believe that
18:07 peace lies beyond personality, beyond
18:10 invention and disguise, beyond the red S
18:12 that you wear on your chest that makes
18:15 bullets bounce off. I believe that it's
18:16 deeper than that. I believe we're a
18:19 field of energy dancing for itself.
18:22 And uh
18:23 I don't care.
18:26 >> The 2023 Golden Globes fiasco is even
18:28 more significant than people realized at
18:30 the time. The ceremony was hosted by
18:32 Jared Carmichael. And during the show,
18:34 he did this bit about Will Smith that
18:36 honestly made everyone in the room
18:37 uncomfortable. He presented [music]
18:39 Smith with this fake award called the
18:41 Rock Hudson Award for best portrayal of
18:43 masculinity on television.
18:46 >> While we were on commercial, uh, we
18:49 actually presented Will Smith with the
18:51 Rock Hudson Award for best portrayal of
18:54 masculinity on television. So, please
18:55 give it up to Will Smith, you guys.
18:58 Please, please. Now, if y'all don't
19:01 know, Rock Hudson was a closeted actor
19:03 from the old studio system era. He was
19:05 famous for playing these hyper masculine
19:07 leading men, but he was actually in real
19:09 life. So, Jared was basically comparing
19:11 Will to Hudson. And here's the thing, if
19:13 Will or Jada had gotten upset, [music]
19:15 it would have looked like they were
19:16 admitting the joke was true. So, they
19:18 just sat there and smiled while the
19:20 audience tried to figure out if they
19:21 should laugh. But that was just the
19:23 warm-up. The main event was Eddie
19:24 Murphy's speech.
19:31 Mind your business
19:39 >> This guy is a legend and he doesn't do
19:41 this stuff often. And when he took a jab
19:44 at Will, people went crazy. But here's
19:45 what I think people missed about that
19:47 moment. Murphy later clarified that the
19:49 line wasn't just a joke to him. He said
19:51 it worked because he was making a point
19:53 about Will Smith's toxic masculinity and
19:55 everyone who heard it understood exactly
19:56 what he was saying. [music]
19:58 >> I don't imagine that Eddie Murphy is
20:00 ever nervous about getting up there and
20:02 speaking his mind, but the the punch
20:04 line in particular tonight. H how did
20:05 you prepare? Were you ready for it? Do
20:06 you feel like it landed the way you
20:07 wanted it to?
20:10 >> I thought I thought it went fine. It
20:12 wasn't a punchline. It was just like the
20:15 end of the end of my little acceptance
20:17 speech. I thought it worked. That joke
20:17 worked, didn't it?
20:20 >> Yeah. didn't think so.
20:20 >> Got laughed.
20:21 >> They got laughed.
20:22 >> They got laughed.
20:23 >> After everything that happened, Will
20:25 Smith released a movie called
20:27 Emancipation, which turned out to be a
20:28 huge disaster. [music]
20:30 The box office was disappointing and the
20:32 awards attention was basically
20:34 non-existent. And that's a big deal
20:36 because for 30 years, Will [music] Smith
20:38 was the safe bet. Studios knew his
20:40 movies would make money. Audiences knew
20:42 they could expect a certain quality. But
20:44 after Jim Carrey and Eddie Murphy
20:46 started speaking out, something changed.
20:48 How the play in a movie called
20:50 Emancipation and you can't emancipate yourself.
20:51 yourself.
20:53 >> Fans willingness to just blindly support
20:55 everything Smith does. It's gone. A
20:57 person commented saying, "Will likes
20:59 humiliating people in public and not
21:01 just Chris Rock, but his own son. Jada
21:03 slowly faded into the shadows after
21:05 humiliating Will with the entanglement,
21:07 and Jaden will eventually humiliate them
21:08 both with a tell- all book or
21:10 interview." Another one added, "When
21:12 these people think they can do anything
21:13 they want and don't have any real
21:16 morals, the truth comes to light. I hope
21:18 they all are made accountable. Now,
21:19 here's the thing. Will Smith is still
21:21 trying to get back in the good graces of
21:23 the industry's power players, and
21:24 they're still keeping him at arms
21:26 length. Not because they morally object
21:28 to what he did, but because supporting
21:30 him is now a major risk. [music] The $9
21:32 billion man, the guy who was too big to
21:34 fail, is discovering that there's a
21:36 limit to how much bad behavior the
21:38 industry will tolerate. Not because they
21:40 have principles, but because they have
21:42 bottom lines. And when supporting Will
21:44 Smith starts looking like bad business,
21:45 suddenly everyone's a lot more careful
21:47 about how they associate themselves with
21:50 him. Also, for the first time in 30
21:52 years, Will Smith has nowhere left to
21:53 hide. But what do you guys think about
21:56 this whole situation? Are we finally
21:57 witnessing Will Smith's real
21:59 personality? Drop your thoughts in the
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