Isla Fisher is seemingly backing after astonishingly hit him during the Oscars ceremony on Sunday.
As celebrities continue to respond to the controversy, Wedding Crashers star Isla, 46, has shown her support for the comedian by sharing a number of photographs of the 57-year-old.
Posting a publicity photograph of the former Saturday Night Live host to her Instagram Stories, Isla tagged him and included the hashtag #comedylegend.
In another post, the Keeping Up With The Joneses actress shared a second shot of Chris, alongside her husband of 12 years, 50-year-old Sacha Baron Cohen.
Accompanying the candid shot, Isla simply added a single red love heart.
The show of support comes after fellow funnyman Will, 53, ‘for $200million’, if he’d slapped him.
Appearing on US breakfast show CBS This Morning, the Sonic star, 60, said he was ‘sickened’ that the actor was applauded, and allowed to give a six-minute speech after winning best actor following the incident.
Jim said: ‘I was sickened, I was sickened by the standing ovation. I felt like Hollywood is just spineless en masse and it just really felt like this is a really clear indication that we’re not the cool club anymore.’
He added that Will ‘should have been’ arrested following a joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith, but the comedian declined to file charges.Â
Jim continued: ‘He didn’t want the hassle. I’d have announced this morning that I was suing for Will for 200 million dollars because that video is going to be there forever, it’s going to be ubiquitous. That insult is going to last a very long time.
‘If you want to yell from the audience and disapprove or show disapproval or say something on Twitter, whatever. You do not have the right to walk up on stage and smack somebody in the face because they said words.’
Following the incident, Will issued an apology on his Instagram account in which he called violence of any kind ‘poisonous’ while calling his actions ‘inexcusable’.
He wrote: ‘Violence in all of its forms is poisonous and destructive. My behaviour at last night’s Academy Awards was unacceptable and inexcusable.
‘Jokes at my expense are a part of the job, but a joke about Jada’s medical condition was too much for me to bear and I reacted emotionally.
‘I would like to publicly apologise to you, Chris. I was out of line and I was wrong. I am embarrassed and my actions were not indicative of the man I want to be.’
He added: ‘There is no place for violence in a world of love and kindness.’
and launched a formal review into the incident.
