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The difference in Jada Pinkett Smith's 2020 Red Table Talk apology vs her 2023 promotion tour is wild once you time the pauses
In 2020 she took 4 seconds between sentences and looked down 3 times per minute, but in 2023 she barely paused at all and stared straight into the lens for a full 8 seconds straight, which tells me the first one was real grief and the second was rehearsed damage control - has anyone else noticed that shift in pacing across different types of apologies?
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miasanchez1h ago
The 8 second stare is the biggest giveaway actually. I watched that segment twice to make sure I wasn't crazy, and her blink rate drops to almost nothing during that part. Like, human beings naturally blink when processing grief or even just thinking about what to say next, so that total lack of blinking feels like she was counting down in her head. Did you notice if her hands did anything different between the two interviews? Because I remember in the 2020 one she kept touching her necklace and rubbing her thumb against her fingers, but in 2023 her hands just stayed dead still on the table the whole time.
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