Hollywood actress Zoe Kravitz, who recently saw a surge in popularity over her acclaimed performance as Catwoman on the latest Batman instalment, was dragged on social media for sharing her thoughts on the infamous 2022 Oscars slap.
Zoe Kravitz gets backlash for criticising Will Smith
Much like many other celebrities, Kravitz was very critical of Will Smith’s gob-smacking behaviour when, in reaction to a joke about Jada Pinkett-Smith’s haircut which, it was recently revealed, was the consequence of alopecia, he walked on stage at the ceremony and slapped iconic comedian Chris Rock in the face.
Smith issued a public apology a day later and his wife, whom he was ‘protecting’, called for healing in a recent Instagram post.
Kravitz, in a number of posts, shaded Smith for reducing the prestigious Oscars to an occasion “where we are apparently screaming profanities and assaulting people on stage now.”
Social media digs up Kravitz’ old comments about Jaden Smith
While much of her captions garnered applause from her colleagues and fans, others were far from impressed with Kravitz’ comments. Especially, considering the fact that in a 2013 interview with V Magazine, she had made questionable claims about Jaden Smith who, at the time, was 14 years old.
Kravitz was on a promo circuit for the movie, After Earth, she co-starred in with Jaden and describing her on-screen relationship with the then-14-year-old, she left eyebrows raised and years later, her words came back to haunt her.
Kravitz, who was aged 24 at the time, described Jaden as a mature boy with “so much personality and so much swag.”
“He is so much cooler than I am. And he’s so handsome, I was always like, when you’re older, you know, we’ll hang out…Nope, that’s inappropriate, you’re 14,” she said at the time.
Of course, this recycled moment in Kravitz’ past was the start of a ‘cancel’ call from social media users who brought up more claims about the star.
zoe kravitz supports known abuser alexander wang, made predatory comments about 14 year old jaden and dated ezra miller when they were 17-18 and she was 20+ but wants to speak about will and draw the line at a slap pic.twitter.com/M6u7KDz1BU
— dom fike’s gf (@ftsyre) March 29, 2022
zoe kravitz is funny. will never forgetting working at essence and us trying to book her for interviews/covers/events/etc and her team declining bcuz we "aren't her audience" 🥴
— Bradford (@brxdford) March 29, 2022