There are just over two weeks left until the 2023 Oscars and the slap that Will Smith gave Chris Rock at the 2022 award ceremony is still kicking in the air. The moment came as quite a shock to both the attendees and the industry, and indeed , Smith is banned from the Hollywood Academy for the next 10 years.
Although the protagonist of The prince of Bel Air He publicly apologized to Rock four months after the assault and has described the moment as a “horrible night”, it seems that the interpreter has decided to take it with humor.
The actor has shared a video on TikTok in which he appears reacting to the video of a tiktoker about knowing what inanimate objects think of you. “It sounds crazy, but it will change your life,” she begins by saying. “Did you know that you can pick any object, look at it, and ask what it thinks of you?” he points out as Smith looks intrigued.
“So, for example, you can take a pen and ask him how he sees you or what he thinks of you, and you will get an answer in your mind from your intuition,” he adds. At the end of his speech, the actor takes his statuette for Best Actor that he won for his role in the williams method at the controversial 2022 ceremony, looking at her intrigued in a clear reference to the moment she starred in shortly before winning the award.
Smith is not the only one who has taken the incident humorously, even Rock himself has joked on more than one occasion with the slap that the interpreter gave him. ″How was your weekend? ”, Rock then asked those attending his show just four days after the Oscars ceremony.
“I don’t have a lot of shit to say about what happened, so if they came here for that… I had written a whole show before this weekend,” the comedian clarified first of all, according to EFE at the time. “I’m still processing what happened so I’m going to talk about that shit at some point. It will be serious. It will be fun, but right now I am going to tell some jokes, ”added the comedian before doing his usual number.
Barely two months later, in the month of May, during his UK tour he joked about the hit: “I’m fine, if anyone was wondering… I’ve got most of my hearing back.” He also then said that he would not speak of the incident again until he was “paid”.
