Will Smith is “still remorseful” for slapping Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars and has “unsuccessfully” tried to make amends with the comedian, a source said. People this week.
The actor, 54, shocked the world when he slapped Rock, 58, onstage after he made a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head, with Rock breaking off Will and Jada’s relationship and tackling the slap in the new Netflix show, Selective. Indignation.
A source told the publication that Smith has “felt terrible for so long,” adding: “He has unsuccessfully tried to make amends with Chris the best way he could.”
‘But beyond that, family is important to him and [Smith] he leaned on them. Everything has helped him look inward and mature. He is better, but he is still sorry.
“Will listened to those who tried to help him and feels like he’s become a better person.”
Remorse: Will Smith is ‘still remorseful’ for slapping Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars and has ‘unsuccessfully’ tried to make amends with the comedian, a source told People this week.
Answer: Chris’ long-awaited public response to being slapped by Smith has received high praise, with some calling it the “greatest brutal takedown” ever.
Chris’ long-awaited public response to being slapped by Smith has received high praise, with some calling it the “greatest brutal takedown” ever.
An industry source told People that Rock “is at the top of the Netflix special.”
They added: “He said what he had to say and doesn’t give a shit about the reaction either way.” He is not worried.
‘People have been waiting [Rock’s] reaction for a year. For the most part, I think it was well received. People don’t expect sugarcoating from Chris Rock.
During his new Netflix standup special that premiered live on Saturday night, Rock responded verbally to Smith a year after the incident that saw Smith kicked out of the Academy.
In a nearly two-minute segment, Rock shot Smith’s decision to slap him onstage at the awards ceremony, making Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith the butt of his joke about her cheating on him.
‘Everyone called him a b**ch, and who is he hitting? Me,’ Rock joked to a crowd that included a friend of Meghan Markle’s who he was seen laughing backstage, according to Page six.
The comedian also took aim at the former ‘Suits’ actress during his special, saying she was ‘acting dumb’ for not realizing that the royal family are the ‘OGs of racism’.
Rock’s tirade has since been hailed on social media as “the best/perfect way” to get back at Smith for their career-changing moment.
The comedian made audience members and live viewers wait until the final ten minutes of ‘Chris Rock: Selective Outrage’ before addressing the slap.
“You all know what happened to me, when Suge Smith hit me,” the comedian joked. Rock said: ‘It still hurts. I have ‘Summertime’ ringing in my ears.’
Digs: When mentioning Jada on the show, he touched on their affair and his frustration that he was the one who “beared the brunt” of the couple’s marital problems
Bringing up Jada on the show, he addressed their affair and his frustration that he was the one who “brought the brunt” of the couple’s marital problems.
“Will Smith practices selective outrage,” Rock said, nodding to the special’s title.
‘Everyone who really knows knows that I had nothing to do with it. She didn’t have any entanglements… She hurt him a lot more than he hurt me.’
The slap came last year after Rock made a joke about Pinkett-Smith’s bald spot, caused by alopecia.
Rock had joked that Pinkett-Smith was rocking a ‘GI Jane’ look, prompting her husband to storm onto the stage and slap him, and he later repeated: ‘Keep my wife’s name out of your fucking mouth!’
During his new stand-up special, Rock joked about his struggle in the year since.
‘Anyone who says ‘words hurt’ has never been punched in the face,’ he said.
But I’m not a victim, honey. You will never see me on Oprah or Gayle crying,” Rock said. He joked that he ‘took that shit like [Manny] Pacquaio.
The crowd in the audience roared with laughter as those at home took to social media to weigh in.
“Like most comedians, I am continually grateful for the existence of Chris Rock. Thank you comedy gods,” wrote fellow comedian Jim Gaffigan.
Listen to me when I tell you. THIS IS THE WILDEST MIC DROP OF ALL TIME. NUF RESPEC’, the Twitter user wrote.
That user was referencing the microphone drop at the end of his special when he responds to those who have asked why he didn’t slap Smith back, saying, ‘You know what my parents taught me? Don’t fight in front of the whites.
This comes after ppeople called Chris for get a fact about Will Smith bad for a joke he made during his Netflix special.
Chris joked that he felt the slap and brought up some of Will’s movie roles to illustrate that one of them was an action star and the other was a funny guy.
He said: ‘I know you can’t tell it on camera: Will Smith is significantly bigger than me. We’re not the same size, okay? Will Smith makes movies shirtless. You’ve never seen me make a movie shirtless.
Deliberate? Fans have criticized Chris Rock for ‘deliberately’ choosing Jada Pinkett Smith’s hometown of Baltimore to film his new Netflix special.
‘If I’m in a movie with open heart surgery, I have a sweater on. Will Smith played Muhammad Ali in a movie.
The comedian compared his roles in cartoons, saying, “even in the animated movies, I’m a zebra, he’s a fucking shark.”
This is in reference to the 2004 movie Shark Tale.
But fans of Chris pointed out that Will didn’t play a shark, but instead voiced a fish, a blue-striped cleaner fish named Oscar to be precise.
The fans too criticized chris rock for “deliberately” choosing the city of Baltimore – Pinkett Smith’s hometown – to film his new Netflix special.