Remember when comedian Kevin Hart gave up his job hosting the 2019 Oscars because he defended anti-gay tweets he had posted in 2010 and 2011? Well, looks like he’s finally ready to wave a white flag.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, in his new Netflix series Kevin Hart: Don’t F*ck This Up, Hart faces backlash from the incident and later says he could have handled it differently.
During the series, in the midst of the controversy, Hart’s publicist says, “He needs to just shut up and put his head down for the next few weeks…. What he needs to remember is he’s feeding 50-60 people. When he takes a shitter, everybody takes a shitter and that’s a big issue now.”
After stepping down from his Oscars hosting gig, Kevin Hart told his team he didn’t want to keep addressing the controversy because it would be “making it OK to go backward.”
“I don’t want to go backward. I just want to go forward,” he told team members at his Hartbeat Productions company. The comedian also attempted to redeem himself with an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show but it ended up backfiring.
“What I thought was going to blow over ended up becoming a bigger mess than I expected,” Hart said. “Everybody is telling me my approach is wrong…There’s a lot of cooks in the kitchen but there’s only one person in the hot water.”
Looking back on the drama, Hart said, “what I thought it was it wasn’t, and my approach to dealing with it because of the assumption that I had is just wrong.”
“I missed an opportunity to say simply that I don’t condone any type of violence in any way, shape or form to anyone for being who they are. I f*cked up…Instead I said, ‘I addressed it.’ I said, ‘I apologized.’ I said, ‘I talked about this already.’ I was just immature.”
While Hart did issue an apology to the LGBTQ community, fans and followers of the comedian have pointed out that his homophobia runs deeper than a series of anti-gay tweets and that his refusal to apologise again only makes it worse.
At least Kevin Hart can acknowledge he should have handled the Oscars situation differently and we can only hope it’s one very big lesson learned for the comedian.
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