Will Smith’s Oscar Slap: What We Know, What We Don’t and What’s Next
02.04.2022 - 03:31
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resigned from the Academy and agreed to accept additional disciplinary measures from the organization, as well as from SAG-AFTRA, but he has granted no interviews to address the situation. Rock, who resumed his stand-up tour in Boston on Wednesday night, said he is still “processing” what happened.
And the Academy is facing new questions about what its leadership did and didn’t do just after the incident. Let’s try to make sense of the Slap Heard Round the World.
You’ve heard it and seen it a thousand times in the last week. When Chris Rock took the stage of the Dolby Theatre to present Best Documentary he made an unscripted joke about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, saying that he’s excited to see her in “G.I.
Jane 2.” It was a reference to her close-cropped hairstyle, though an individual close to Rock told TMZ that the comic was unaware of Pinkett Smith’s struggles with alopecia that has led to severe hair loss. Oscars producer Will Packer confirmed in his sit-down with “Good Morning America” that Rock’s joke was an ad-lib that was not listed on the Teleprompter.Smith walked up to the stage and slapped Rock across the face, then twice shouted at him as he sat back down, “Keep my wife’s name out your f—ing mouth.” What happened next — in the roughly half hour before Smith accepted his Best Actor Oscar for “King Richard” with a tearful speech that did not include an apology to Rock — remains very much in dispute.
In particular, many have questioned why the Academy allowed Smith to remain in his seat after making physical contact with Rock on stage. The LAPD issued a statement that Rock had declined to press charges against Smith, and Packer said in his “GMA” interview that the police were ready to arrest Smith on
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