being a Hollywood super couple is no
walk in the park as double the power
usually means double the attention in
Tinseltown Will Smith and his outspoken
other half Jada have gotten used to that
over the course of their 20-year
marriage though that doesn't mean they
always know how to handle the heat of
the spotlight
a series of public scandals combined
with a period of professional decline
has led to their stock dropping
significantly in Hollywood to the point
that the community they were once very
much a vital part of has started to turn
their back on them
this is why Hollywood can't stand Will
and Jada Pinkett Smith anymore high
hopes Fresh Prince of bel-air is
original Aunt Viv actress Janet Hubert
has a long history of feuding with the
Smiths and that came to a head in 2016
when she advised the couple via the Los
Angeles Times
you're not kings and queens you are not
royalty you're simply entertainers
that's not how the Smiths always see it
however especially will back in 2007 the
men in black star told Daily Mail that
his ambition was to be the first black
president in American history saying I'm
going to be President of the United
States I always wanted to be the first
black president but Barack Obama stole
my idea that's okay with me
Barack can go first and then I'll take
my turn that's true what can I do
Smith restarted the rumor mill towards
the end of 2015 when he said if people
keep saying all the crazy kinds of stuff
they've been saying on the news lately
about walls and Muslims they're going to
force me into the political arena it's
certainly not unheard of for an
entertainer to achieve political Heights
but given some of their other
controversial connections and recent
setbacks it might be a tougher road for
Smith to travel Oscar boycott backlash
when Will Smith didn't get a Best Actor
nomination for 2015's concussion
despite the Oscar buzz that surrounded
the biographical football film Jada
announced her intention to boycott the
Oscars where the lack of diversity in
nominees and will ultimately supported
his wife stamps in the press I think
that diversity is the American
superpower well some Riley to the cause
like director Spike Lee some of the
Smith's peers took a different stance at
the American Black Film Festival
Awards Jamie Foxx said that they needed
to hashtag act better if they expected
to win awards an even Oscar host Chris
Rock took a swipe at her in his opening
monologue Oscars like me boycotting
Rihanna's panties I was invited in other
words if this was an effort to establish
a political platform for the pair it
didn't receive the kind of resounding
praise they were probably hoping for
kooky kids it's no secret that Will and
Jada have raised their children to
embrace their unique identities but when
the two youngest willow and Jaden spoke
to T Magazine in 2014 it became very
clear just how eccentric these celeb
children had become in the chat Jaden
revealed that his goal in life was to
beat the most craziest of all time well
willow touted her ability to manipulate
time saying I mean time for me I can
make it go slow or fast however I please
and that's how I know it doesn't exist
because of this and other interviews
snippets the kids have been consistently
blasted for being spoiled and
self-centered by the press their
personal philosophies notwithstanding
Lulu and Jaden's careers and music and
acting have become front and center of
the Smith family's energy lately and the
two have had mixed successes in both
mediums Will and Jada is hands-off
attitude towards their kids oddball
behaviors became troublesome for the
pair in 2014 after a picture of their
daughter in bed with a shirtless 20 year
old man sparked a police investigation
the Los Angeles Department of Children
and Family Services were called to look
into the snap of the then 13 year old
Willow which was taken and posted online
by actor Moises arias but removed
shortly afterwards the Smiths cooperated
with the authorities over the
investigation
but Jada took a different approach when
they came to the press she later said of
the incident here's the deal
there was nothing sexual about that
picture or that situation you guys are
projecting your trash onto it and you're
acting like covert pedophiles and that's
not cool even so such negative attention
has certainly taken a toll on the
family's public profile controversial
connections as much as the general
public enjoys poking fun at Scientology
the truth is that when the religion
first decided to base itself in
California it made studio execs
uneasy the church had been offering
acting classes for those looking to make
it big in the business for a long time
but their ambitions became clear in 2016
when they opened their very own movie
studio right on Sunset Boulevard while
Will and Jada never confirmed that they
were members their dealings with
Scientology were exposed in tax records
which highlighted a 1.2 million dollar
payment made to one of the churches
schools by the Smiths trust in 2010 when
the school closed down in 2013 the
couple got all their money back and have
since associated themselves with
Christian and Baptist churches instead
but mud sticks in Tinseltown but that
wasn't the last of their eyebrow-raising
financial conflicts the Smith's rep took
another blow in 2015 when controversial
leader of the Nation of Islam Louis
Farrakhan revealed that the couple of
donated a hundred fifty thousand dollars
to help fund a rally for the group which
had links to domestic terrorism
the former Fresh Prince has spent his
career strategically avoiding
controversial roles in order to minimize
risk but by associating himself with a
controversial political group he made it
a little bit harder for Hollywood to
keep on flogging his nice guy stick
which might be why audiences have become
resistant to cough up for tickets to see
either of them box office bluster the
days when Will Smith was considered a
sure thing in Hollywood are now well and
truly behind us with his 2016 Christmas
turkey collateral beauty the final nail
in his a-list coffin the Films opening
numbers were the lowest ever recorded by
a wide release Will Smith vehicle and
Studios began to see the pattern
emerging as clearly as everybody else
could Will had been through another
nightmare just 12 months prior when his
buzzy performance in concussion wasn't
acknowledged by the Academy nor did it
turn a profit that followed on from the
monumental flop that was after Earth the
2013 sci-fi flick starring Will
alongside his son Jaden the would-be
blockbuster cost a hundred thirty
million dollars to make and only managed
to claw back 60 million dollars in u.s.
receipts and Jada's projects don't fare
much better either in fact the most
success Jada has had in her career to
date is when the audience hasn't been
able to see her
voicing hippopotamus Gloria in the
animated Madagascar franchise the only
meaty role of any kind she's been able
to sink her teeth into recently has been
in the realm of tell
when she played fish Mooney on Gotham in
the end no matter how brightly a
Hollywood star shines when they burn out
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