Barbara Mori and Camila Sodi reacted to Will Smith's slap: “Machismo disguised as heroism”

Mexico has become a benchmark for opinions when it comes to controversy. What will apparently be a long list, now includes Camila Sodi and Bárbara Mori, both protagonists of the television stories Rubí, who forcefully disapproved of the slap that Will Smith gave Chris Rock, after the comedian aired a joke about the alopecia that Jade Pinkett Smith suffers from.

With a very modern and feminine vision, Thalia's niece was questioned about the topic that has not stopped ringing in the media and social networks since last Sunday, March 27 with the Oscars 2022. In front of the cameras of Venga La Alegría, the latest protagonist of the Fábrica de Sueños version, Televisa, about the story of the “most popular brazen of Mexican television” assured that machismo should not be disguised as being a hero.

“It's a shame that machismo disguises itself as heroism, like wanting to save his family and all the choro that was mentioned that he is love, but I think it starts by example. So under no reason or circumstance is violence allowed, so it is an act that I believe that the Academy and all those present and all those who watched it on television condemn it,” he said upon arrival at the airport in Mexico City.

For her part, Bárbara Mori also decided to mention a few words about the scandal that, although it had occurred in Mexico, has not ceased to be a trend in the Latin country, due to how transgressive it was the moment in which currently the winner of the 2022 Oscar for Best Actor offered an apology on his social networks, both for the academy and for the comedian Chris Rock.

“It's difficult because Mr. Smith is a person that I admire a lot and he seems like a great guy to me and I think that sometimes we get carried away by our impulses and do things that aren't right [...] It's beautiful to defend your wife but you can't defend your wife by violating a human being, that's what I think,” said the protagonist of films like My Brother's Woman, Thirty, single and fantastic and You Are My Problem.

The actress continued to give an idea that it would have been perfect for the situation not to end the way it happened, since despite the physical aggression she also agrees with Smith about the lack of respect that was explicitly in the joke that caused the entire revolution on social media.

“Violence doesn't fit anywhere. I was thinking today, because obviously because it is a topic of conversation, what would have been good for him to do to defend his wife? Maybe stand on stage and take the microphone and say 'what you're doing isn't right, because you're disrespecting my wife and that's why we're the way we are', but don't hit her you know, it doesn't hit anyone,” he added.

For the protagonist of the most acclaimed version of Rubí by critics and the public, responding to violent acts with more violence does not bring anything good, so despite her good intentions in the end the human irrationality won him, so his momentum was that seen at the Academy Awards, where that action completely overshadowed his victory.

“If you attack me and I respond with aggression, there is no understanding here, growth, there is no teaching. It's aggregation with aggression and what's going to come out of it? , nothing. If he defended his wife and his family then that was beautiful, but he let himself be carried away by an impulse”, he concluded.

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