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By: Thomas Cluck
Tennis, a sport so typically distant from the silver display screen and in style tradition in Hollywood and throughout America, was prepared for its shining second on the Academy Awards.
The hit movie King Richard, starring Will Smith, was concerning the father and coach of two of the best tennis gamers of all time Serena and Venus Williams, Mr. Richard Williams. The film was extremely acclaimed and poised to win a number of Oscars.
The stage was set. Serena and husband Alexis Ohanion, founding father of tech big Reddit, have been there. So was sister Venus Williams on the purple carpet in Los Angeles, California. The legendary, nearly too epic to be true story of the 2 sisters from close by Compton that revolutionized the sport of girls’s tennis, was going to be delivered to the US as soon as once more.
King Richard was nominated for the distinguished prize of the evening, Greatest Image, and its star Will Smith received the Greatest Actor in a Main Function prize. It was a profitable evening and a validation from the academy of the movie.
However nobody is speaking about that.
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As an alternative, the web and social media have been ablaze with the information that King Richard’s personal Will Smith, the man who received finest actor for the movie, punched host Chris Rock. Positive, the encounter is getting extra consideration than the Oscars or any awards present has gotten in years mixed. They’ve been failing, dying. Hollywood executives love the brand new buzz. Certainly it couldn’t have been deliberate or staged in any respect…
However Will Smith shouldn’t have let that be the story. He simply received a profession award. An incredible movie needs to be acknowledged. Richard Williams and the story of how Venus and Serena grew to become Venus and Serena needs to be being talked about. Let’s not neglect that.