Cinema lover, Nicolas Bedos was in front of his television this Sunday evening for the Oscars ceremony and must have been very proud: CODA, which won the statuette for best film, is adapted from The Bélier Family, whose little sister Victoria wrote the screenplay. But one sequence especially shocked him extremely: that of Will Smith going up on stage to hit the presenter after a dubious joke about his wife.
Suffering from alopecia, Jada Pinkett Smith had indeed seen Chris Rock making fun of her shaved hair. A sequence which did not make her laugh much and which provoked the fury of her husband. He apologized a few minutes later when he received the Oscar and then repeated his message on Instagram. But not enough to calm the fury of Nicolas Bedos, devastated that we can use violence against words.
“Hear here and there people throw back to back, or rather face to face, a very bad JOKE and a huge DONUT. To see once again, year after year, the sanctification of a growing number of subjects and the criminalization of words of humor, of writing on the sickly momentum of virtual trials“, he wrote on Instagram.
A great defender of freedom of expression, even black humor, Nicolas Bedos has often been criticized for his positions or some of his jokes. However, he does not accept that violence is exercised. “Having to remember that if words sometimes hurt, DISTURB, dismay, provoke debate, with rare exceptions (punished by law), words do not kill“.
“The blows, them, KILL, they reduce to SILENCE, they give birth to TORPOR, the negation of the SPIRIT”, he recalled, hoping “to soon read THE in-depth book on this dangerous conflict that the time maintains with the WORDS in the name of an alleged MORALITY. To the point, for some, of justifying physical VIOLENCE, which is not very moralI”.