Comedian Chris Rock made a mockery of being slapped by star Will Smith at last year’s Oscars in a live comedy special, saying he enjoyed seeing Smith take a beating in his latest film.
And the Netflix network transmitted the episode directly from the Hippodrome Theater in Baltimore, where Rock said that he watched the movie “Emancipation” (or “liberation”) only to see Smith being beaten during the events of the film and he was exclaiming in joy, saying, “Hit him again” and “There is a place that has not hit him in it.”
And in March 2022, Smith went on stage at the Oscars and slapped Rock after the comedian made a joke about the appearance of Will Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. Smith, the hero of “King Richard”, then returned to his seat in the audience, and later won the award for best actor.
Rock remained silent about the incident until near the end of the hour-long special, then accused Smith of “selective rage,” as the special was titled.
Rock indicated that Smith’s wife sowed the seeds of tension between them, in part because of her call to boycott the Oscars in 2016 when Rock was the host. Pinkett Smith said she was protesting that her husband and other black actors were not nominated.
Rock mocked Pinkett Smith at the Oscars at the time and mocked her again last year.
Rock also touched on marital problems that Smith and his wife have spoken about publicly. Pinkett Smith admitted that she had an affair, which she described as “trouble” in 2020.
“I didn’t get into any trouble,” Rock said. “I (Smith) hurt him far more than he hurt me.”
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