Awards reveals are, traditionally, a ripe backdrop for extraordinary superstar incidents.
Some are so controversial they’re nonetheless referenced many years on. In 1997, an encounter between Hollywood funnyman Jim Carrey and ’90s starlet Alicia Silverstone is considered one of them.
The 1997 MTV Movie Awards have been an astonishing snapshot of the late Nineties. The ceremony featured Mike Myers as host, performances by Jewel and Bush and a gong handed to Tom Cruise for his function in Jerry Maguire.
Carrey, then aged 35, was sweeping the awards for his hit comedy movie The Cable Guy. One of his three wins, nonetheless, was overshadowed by a single on-stage act he determined to improvise.
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The Mask actor’s title had been known as as the winner of Best Villain and Carrey took the alternative for a bit of efficiency artwork.
Clueless star Silverstone, then 20, was presenting the award and when Carrey accepted it, he planted an enormous shock kiss on his fellow actor.
Silverstone appeared to brush off the seemingly consensual kiss, however the cameras caught a quick look of shock that glinted throughout her face.
Carrey instantly launched right into a comedic routine for his acceptance speech, telling the crowd: “I don’t mean to cause any waves, but this popcorn is stale” – referring to the iconic MTV trophy formed like a popcorn field.
But Silverstone wasn’t the solely goal of Carrey’s amorous behaviour. Later throughout the present, he tried to seize Will Smith and pull him in for a kiss as he made his solution to the stage to simply accept the Best Kiss award.
While the actress has by no means publicly addressed the 1997 kiss, some studies have claimed over the years that Silverstone was “embarrassed” and “humiliated” by the stunt. Carrey is believed to have apologised to Silverstone backstage.
Other studies at the time speculated the incident was truly pre-planned.
Despite the claims Silverstone was sad about Carrey’s act, a photograph of the pair after the awards present posing amicably might throw chilly water on this principle.
Either means, it took 25 years for Carrey to face backlash for the 1997 kiss. And all it took was Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars.
Carrey had reacted to the slap heard round the world and criticised Smith for taking the shine away from different Oscar winners.
“I was sickened,” Carrey informed CBS’ Gayle King. “I was sickened by the standing ovation. Hollywood is just spineless en masse and it really felt like this is a really clear indication that we aren’t the cool club anymore.”
Social media had a feed frenzy, with previous clips of his 1997 kiss with Silverstone resurfacing on apps resembling Twitter and TikTok.
Fans weren’t proud of Carrey weighing in on the state of affairs, which some labelling him “hypocritic”.
One incensed individual tweeted at the time: “Jim Carrey says Will Smith ‘should have been’ arrested for hitting Chris Rock How about when Jim Carrey forcibly kissed Alicia Silverstone when he was going up on stage to accept an award?”
Another wrote: “Imagine being Jim Carrey sickened by a slap while also being the same Jim Carrey who forcefully kissed Alicia Silverstone.”
Carrey has by no means damaged his silence on the kiss with Silverstone and didn’t touch upon the resurfaced footage in 2022.
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