Aunt Viv is out for “Fresh” blood.
Janet Hubert, who played Will Smith’s original Aunt Vivian on “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” called out Jada Pinkett Smith in a YouTube video posted Monday for threatening to boycott the Oscars.
Pinkett Smith
had blasted the Academy Awards for snubbing her husband and other black
actors in this year’s nominees on Martin Luther King Jr. Day - which
incensed Hubert.
“First of all, Miss Thing, does your man not have a mouth of his own
with which to speak?” the 60-year-old said, just getting warmed up for
her four-minute online rant.
“The second thing, girlfriend, there’s a lot of s--- going on in the
world that you all don’t seem to recognize. People are dying. Our boys
are being shot left and right. People are starving. People are trying to
pay bills. And you’re talking about some motherf---ing actors and
Oscars. It just ain’t that deep,” she added.
Hubert also criticized Smith’s wife for asking other black actors and
actresses to “jeopardize their career and their standing,” especially
after the Pinkett-Smith family built their entire fortune in Hollywood.
“I find it ironic that somebody who has made their living, and made
millions and millions of dollars from the very people you’re talking
about boycotting just because you didn’t get a nomination, just because
you didn’t win,” said Hubert. “That is not the way life works, baby ...
You ain’t Barack and Michelle Obama. Ya’ll need to get over yourselves.”
She also called out Smith’s hypocrisy in running his own Overbrook
Entertainment production company that works with his friends and his
family.
“You are a part of Hollywood. You are a part of the system that is unfair to other actors, so get real,” Hubert said.
There’s been bad blood between Hubert and Smith ever since the “Fresh
Prince of Bel Air” actress was replaced by replaced by Daphne
Maxwell-Reid in 1993 - which Hubert has held Smith responsible for ever
since.
Hubert even boycotted a “Fresh Prince of Bel Air” reunion in 2011,
telling TMZ that, “I will never do anything with an a--hole like Will
Smith.”
She added, “He is still an egomaniac and has not grown up. This
constant reunion thing will never ever happen in my lifetime unless
there is an apology, which he doesn’t know the word.”
Hubert harkened back to that dust-up in Monday’s YouTube post.
“Karma must be a b---- because here you are,” she said. “You’ve had a
few flops ... there are those out there who really deserve a nod - maybe
you didn’t deserve a nomination.”
But Hubert said she’s not just expressing sour grapes.
“It’s not about being bitter - it’s about being right,” she concluded.
“The only Oscar I care about right now is Oscar Mayer Weiner with
mustard and relish.”
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