“Jada can’t wait to do the GI Jane sequel!” With this joke, Chris Rock set off a chain reaction at the Oscars in the spring that made the event scandalous. The progress is well known: Will Smith saw his wife offended, stormed onto the stage, slapped the comedian and shouted a few wild words after him.
Perhaps not everyone who watched TV understood immediately why Smith felt so offended or why his wife Jada Pinkett Smith was so vilified. The actress has been suffering from alopecia areata, a pathological form of hair loss in which the hair falls out in a circle, for years. For some time she has therefore appeared with a hairless hairstyle.
GI Jane: Golden Raspberry for Demi Moore
That’s what Demi Moore does in Ridley Scott’s 1997 film The Jane Files. But that doesn’t happen there because of illness, because Moore plays a female lieutenant in the US Navy and wants to prove to the tough guys there that she can survive the overly intensive training program as the first woman.
As is usual for men in the US military, their hair had to fall. This brought the actress – at that time still a kind of darling of the yellow press because of her provocative roles in “Unveiling” and “Striptease” – headlines, but after the film’s meager box office and largely devastating reviews also a Golden Raspberry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4Zm_ok-iII
Now the film is on TV again (Tuesday, August 23, Kabeleins) and everyone can see for themselves whether the great Ridley Scott (“Alien”, “Blade Runner”, “Thelma & Louise”, “Gladiator”) actually only shot an involuntarily funny, sadistic-reactionary commercial for the military, which only asserts its feminist impetus, as critics unanimously stated, at least in Germany. And by the way, you can check whether it was really worth it for Will Smith to get so angry and thus endanger his own career.