In March 2022, Will Smith interrupted the Oscars presentation to slap Chris Rock, after a joke about hair curto from his wife Jada Pinkett Smith, Hollywood star, who suffers from alopecia.
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A few minutes later, Smith received the Oscar for Best Actor for “King Richard: Creating Champions”. He later apologized to Rock, but was banned from the awards show for a decade.
The comedian did not file any complaints and has remained silent about what happened, until now.
Rock addressed the topic this Saturday, in the show “Indignação Seletiva”, broadcast on Netflix, in which he stated that the actor was unhappy for having been betrayed by his wife.
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“People ask, 'Did it hurt?'. It still hurts,” he jokes. “Will Smith is significantly bigger than me. Will Smith played Muhammad Ali in a movie. Do you think I auditioned for this role?”
According to Rock, Smith had been the target of ridicule after an episode of his wife's podcast, in which the two talked about infidelity.
“Why would I do that?” Rock argued, insisting that after the podcast episode, Pikett Smith was called a “predator,” among other names. The comedian further stated that he tried to console Smith after the affair became public.
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Rock pointed out that Jada Pinkett Smith's hostility toward him began a few years earlier, when she asked him to boycott the Oscars because Will Smith wasn't nominated for the 2015 film Concussion.
She said that “a grown man should leave his job because his husband was not nominated for 'Concussion.' So (Smith) gives me a concussion,” he joked, making a pun on the film.
"What the hell? Did I make a joke about this? Who gives a fuck? The way things are; She starts, I finish. Nobody was picking on her.”
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Rock, who at times seemed genuinely angry, said before the slap that he has always admired Will Smith, first as a rapper and then as an actor.
“He made some good films. I've rooted for Will Smith my whole life,” Rock said, adding that he now roots for the slave owner who whips Smith's character in his latest film, “Emancipation.”
(To AFP)
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