In her cover story forWSJ. Magazine’s Fall 2022 Women’s Fashion issue, the 33-year-old actress addressed some of the online backlash she received for sharing her take on the incident, saying, “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.”
“It’s mostly scary because art is about conversation,” Kravitz added. “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.”
Kravitz initially captioned a since-deleted photo post of her look from the March ceremony, “Here’s a picture of my dress at the show where we are apparently assaulting people on stage now.”
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Along with her initial post on social media, Kravitz wrote alongside a second photo at the time, “And here is a picture of my dress at the party after the award show -where we are apparentlyscreaming profanities and assaulting people on stagenow.”
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Zoë Kravitz coversWSJ. Magazine’s Fall 2022 Women’s Fashion issue.CAMPBELL ADDY for WSJ. Magazine
The outburst led to months of fallout for Best Actor-winner Smith, whoresigned from the Academyof Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and wasbanned from attending Academy eventsfor 10 years.
A source told PEOPLE this week, “Will is doing good. He spends a lot of time with Jada. He is veryhappy about her constant support. They are very close and back each other up. Family is everything to them.”
Smith feels like he “learned a lot in the past few months,” the insider added, while another source said, “Will is happy about the support he always gets from Jada.”
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“It’s about expressing something that will hopefully spark a conversation or inspire people or make them feel seen,“The Batmanstar added. “I think I’m in a place right now where I don’t want to express myself through a caption or a tweet. I want toexpress myself through art.”
She is also “torn about what to say right now, because I’m supposed to just talk about it,” Kravitz admitted.
“I have very complicated feelings around it,” the actress and director said. “I wish I had handled that differently. And that’s okay.”
source: people.com
