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.
There’s been bad blood between Will Smith (c.) and Janet Hubert (r.) since she was replaced on “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” in 1993.
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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