The Tonys has a violence policy and Nish Kumar is subjected to racist heckling; something is amiss in the entertainment world
This is not about Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars last month. Nobody needs to read more about that. It’s swimming in cold water, it’s how good Succession is: we know, so why hasn’t anyone mentioned it before?
But that one rash moment and its afterlife is part of a bigger picture, a sense that something is not quite as it was. Last week, the Hollywood Reporter revealed that the organisers of the Tony awards, the New York ceremony that recognises excellence in Broadway theatre, sent an email revealing they now have a policy for dealing with violent incidents: “In the event of an incident, the perpetrator will be removed from the event immediately.”
