You can always expect the unexpected when it comes to award shows. Just today (Monday, 28th March), actor Will Smith slapped Chris Rock across the face at the 94th Academy Awards and it didn’t look like it was scripted.
The 53-year-old actor, who is nominated for an Oscar this year for his performance as Richard Williams in the 2021 film “King Richard”, shocked everyone after he got up on stage and hit Chris Rock after the comedian made a joke about Will’s wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith.
Will Smith punches Chris Rock and tells him to “keep my wife’s name out of your fucking mouth” during the #Oscars pic.twitter.com/tYf7S6OIy4
— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) March 28, 2022
Chris Rock was presenting the award for Best Documentary and apparently made a joke about Jada’s shaved head saying, “Jada, love ya, G.I Jane 2, can’t wait to see it.” The joke made by Chris is a reference to the 1997 action-drama G.I Jane where the main character played by Demi Moore had a shaved head.
Jada actually did not appear too happy about the joke which resulted in Will getting up on stage and shocking everyone in the audience with the slap. Chris appeared too shocked afterwards but still kept calm and smiled. “Will just smacked the s*** outta me”, he said.
Will walked back to his seat where he shouted a warning to Chris to leave Jada out of the jokes. Jada actually announced last year that she shaved her head after struggling with alopecia so it’s understandable as to why she and her husband did not find the joke funny.
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Twitter has been blowing up about the incident including sharing photos of the other celebrities reacting to the altercation and to no surprise, there’s already lots of memes of it.
During commercial breaks, fellow actor friends Denzel Washington and Tyler Perry comforted Will and Jada. Will later apologised for the incident during his acceptance speech when he won Best Actor for his role in “King Richard”.
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Will Smith apologizes for his incident with Chris Rock during his acceptance speech for Best Actor at the #Oscars:
“Love makes you do crazy things… I hope The Academy invites me back.” https://t.co/txHp3uLljK
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) March 28, 2022
