Will Smith slapping Chris Rock after he made a joke about the actor’s wife Jada Pinkett Smith before accepting the Best Actor gong is no doubt the most talked about moment of the 94th annual Academy Awards ceremony. And a live image of the moment the Hollywood stars at the Vanity Fair Oscars’ viewing party found out about the altercation has now surfaced online, thanks to journalist Derek Blasberg, who posted the snap to his Twitter page. The photo shows the shocked reactions of Jason Bateman and his wife Amanda Anka, Taika Waititi, Sienna Miller and her beau Oli Green, Sarah Paulson and directors Ron Howard and JJ Abrams and his wife Katie McGrath.
Will Smith won his very first Academy Award after a dazzling in front of an audience total implosion where he hit the host
Smith slapped Oscars moderator Chris Rock for poking a fun at his better half Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head
Pinkett Smith has straightforwardly experienced going bald condition alopecia, and seemed unglued about the live TV gag
Her entertainer spouse at first seemed to giggle however at that point ran on to arrange seconds after the fact and slapped Rock
A picture existing apart from everything else stars at the Vanity Fair supper learned about the smack has been posted on the web
The unimaginable photograph shows the stunned responses of stars like Jason Bateman and his better half Amanda Anka, Taika Waititi, Sienna Miller , Sarah Paulson and chiefs Ron Howard and JJ Abrams
This is the sensational second a portion of Hollywood’s greatest stars responded with shock as they figured out that Will Smith had slapped comic Chris Rock during the Oscars the previous evening.
An unprecedented photo showed a large group of A-listers from Jason Bateman to Sienna Miller and Sarah Paulson to JJ Adams learning about the occurrence while at the Vanity Fair Oscars seeing party.
The picture shows the responses of Bateman and his significant other Amanda Anka, Taika Waititi, Miller and her lover Oli Green, Sarah Paulson and chiefs Ron Howard and Abrams and his better half Katie McGrath.
The articulations as the news tore included Thor chief Waititi’s open mouth, Bateman’s dazed look and Paulson wildly looking on Google as she showed the response to Miller on her telephone.
Mill operator seemed to have run over with her sweetheart Green, as she investigated Paulson’s shoulder at the fresh insight about the occurrence that will perpetually stamp the 94th yearly Academy Awards service.
The image was tweeted by Vanity Fair design author Derek Blasberg, who composed:
‘In the mean time, this is everyone at my table at the Vanity Fair Oscar supper manically researching wtf Will Smith just shared with Chris Rock.’
It comes after Smith, 53, seemed to take more time to a gag Rock made in front of an audience about his significant other Jada Pinkett Smith’s short hair style, bringing about him walking in front of an audience to go after Rock prior to swearing subsequent to sitting down.
Many stars passed up the honors service in Hollywood and on second thought watched from a spectacular supper facilitated by the magazine, who later held an elegant get-together for the greatest stars including Smith himself.
No way! A live image of the moment the Hollywood stars at the Vanity Fair Oscars’ viewing party found out about the altercation has now surfaced online, thanks to Derek Blasberg, who posted the snap to his Twitter page (L-R Katie McGrath, Jason Bateman, Taika Waititi, JJ Abrams, Ron Howard, Oli Green, Sienna Miller, Sarah Paulson, Amanda Anka)
Chris, a veteran stand-up who has previously made jokes about Will and his wife, upset Smith when he compared his wife’s hair to that of G. I. Jane’s, who has a shaved head. Pinkett Smith suffers from hair loss condition alopecia.
While the Academy audience witnessed the moment in real time, the stars at the Vanity Fair dinner were shocked to hear of the slap moments after it took place.
Speaking at the party P Diddy opened up about his plea for resolution:
‘I was just as shocked as everybody else, but I had just went on how I was feeling, and I thought it was very important to bring love into the room. I think we know both of those guys’ character, and, you know, sometimes s**t happens.’
Meanwhile, Minnie Driver said: ‘We all got to witness something extremely personal. I feel terrible that there was so much emotion happening, that was infront of everybody else. It felt deeply personal.
White Men Can’t Jump actress Rosie Perez said:
‘I just hope they work it out. I don’t even want to go to there, you know what I mean. I just hope they work it out.’
Leslie Odom Jr took a more serious note when asked for his thoughts.
‘This business can sometimes feel like walking around with your skin ripped off,’
he said.
‘It’s a very vulnerable thing, and so I think we saw two artists with their hearts open. It’s a vulnerable moment, sometimes it’s messy, but it’s always beautiful when it’s the truth.’
Derek posted the incredible snap alongside the caption: ‘Meanwhile, this is everybody at my table at the Vanity Fair Oscar dinner manically googling wtf Will Smith just said to Chris Rock’
Reaction: Twitter users quickly reacted to the image, hailing it more iconic than Ellen DeGeneres’ Oscars selfie in 2014′
Meanwhile, Michaela Jane Rodriguez, showed her support for the actor, and said:
‘I was cheering for Will. He’s one of the only black men in that position to have won an award like that, it was really well deserved. I’m here for him.
When asked about the moment, she added:
‘Sometimes when you’re speaking about somebodies wife, you can’t really help that. That’s what I’ll say.’
Henry Goulding added: ‘I think they’re both legends, there’s something deeper to be discussed. I hope they both step up man to man and figure it all out. Which I’m sure they will.
While Karomo Brown said: ‘Sometimes as celebrities we look at them as if they aren’t human beings, so we poke and poke. That was a high emotion night for Will Smith regardless, but we need to know at a certain pointe everyone breaks.
Shook! Many joked about the photo in the comments section of the post
‘But I think these are two men that will come together, figure it out and say enough in enough, I’m sorry. You know what I mean? I’ve never been in that situation. I can’t condone violence of any nature, but I can understand protecting those you love.’
Will and Jada’s son Jaden appeared to back his father in a since-deleted tweet.
He wrote:
‘And That’s How We Do It.’
The 23-year-old rapper later shared a selfie and said his dad’s acceptance speech for his first Oscar for Best Actor reduced him to tears. In the second deleted post, he wrote:
‘My Dads Speech Made Me Cry.’
Reinvisioned: The moment was not disimilar to Ellen DeGeneres’ iconic Oscars’ selfie in 2014
Hip-hop legend 50 Cent shared a meme of the moment Will struck Chris with ‘Everybody Hates Chris’ across it, the name of the sitcom the 57-year-old stand-up narrated.
The ‘Candy Shop’ hitmaker joked in the caption: ‘B**** don’t you ever play with me. LOL.’
By contrast, director Judd Apatow hailed the attack
‘pure out of control rage and violence’ and said Will ‘
could have killed’ Chris. In a since-deleted post, he wrote: ‘He could have killed him. That’s pure out of control rage and violence. They’ve heard a million jokes about them in the last three decades. They are not freshman in the world of Hollywood and comedy. He lost his mind.
‘Seems like Will Smith’s plan to get comedian and the world to not make jokes about him is not going to pan out. The Williams family must be furious. Pure narcissism.’
Referring to Demi Moore playing GI Jane in the 1997 film, he added:
‘Also — GI Jane was gorgeous. What exactly is insulting about being compared to a ripped, stunning Demi?’
‘I think they’re both legends, there’s something deeper to be discussed. I hope they both step up man to man and figure it all out. Which I’m sure they will’
While One Direction star Liam Payne told reporters: ‘I believe whatever he felt that he did, he had the right to do.
‘I had to leave my chair I’ll be honest with you, it cut me really deep. Will apologised upon receiving his Oscar and no charges will be made.
There are already calls for the star, 53, to be stripped of the award hours after becoming only the fifth black actor in history to collect the biggest prize in Hollywood for his portrayal of Richard Williams, the father who raised tennis champions Venus and Serena Williams, in ‘King Richard’.
In a rambling acceptance speech a sobbing Smith admitted that ‘love makes you do crazy things’ – but tellingly failed to apologise to Rock for his assault, only apologising to Academy and his fellow nominees. Rock has told LAPD he will not press charges.
Around 40 minutes earlier the comedian had made a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head. He said: ‘Jada, GI Jane 2, I can’t wait to see it’. Ms Smith has been grappling with hair loss since revealing her alopecia diagnosis in 2018.
The 50-year-old actress rolled her eyes and her husband, considered a shoo-in for the Best Actor gong, appeared to be laughing along with the gag. A giggling Chris Rock then said ‘uh oh’ seconds later as Will Smith suddenly stormed on to the stage and slapped him around the face, with an audible smack. Rock then began rubbing his cheek and said: ‘Wow, Will Smith just smacked the s**t out of me.’
Most of the assembled audience of the world’s biggest stars assembled last night at The Dolby Theatre in LA – and millions of people watching around the world – initially believed it was a prank, continuing to laugh at what had happened.
But Smith’s meltdown continued when he returned to his seat as he repeatedly screamed: ‘Keep my wife’s name out of your f***ing mouth’. The crowd then fell into stunned silence as it became crystal clear the attack was genuine. Chris Rock replied to him saying: ‘I’m going to, okay?’ before laughing uncomfortably saying: ‘That was the greatest night in the history of television’. Smith’s sweary rant was muted by directors because the show’s live broadcast is slightly delayed in the US.
But it was aired in full to some international audiences with the uncut clip already been viewed more than a million times on social media and YouTube in the past few hours.
Any questions over whether the altercation was genuine were answered when just over half an hour later Smith was given the Best Actor award and apologized for the assault. LAPD has since said that Mr Rock has declined to press assault charges – but they will be willing to investigate if he decides to pursue.
In his acceptance speech a crying Smith said: ‘Love makes you do crazy things’, as he clutched his Best Actor Oscar statuette.
In what should have been the greatest moment of his career, Smith accepted the award and said: ‘You gotta be able to take abuse, and you gotta be able to have people talk crazy about you. In this business, you gotta be able to have people disrespecting you and you gotta smile and you gotta pretend like that`s OK.
‘Denzel (Washington) said to me a few minutes ago, he said, ‘At your highest moment, be careful. That’s when the devil comes for you.’
It’s like I want to be a vessel for love. I want to say thank you to Venus and Serena. I want to say thank you to Venus and Serena and the entire Williams family for entrusting me with your story. That’s what I want to do. I want to be an ambassador of that kind of love and care and concern.
He went on: I want to apologize to the Academy, I want to apologize to all my fellow nominees. Art imitates life. I look like the crazy father, just like they said. I look like the crazy father just like they said about Richard Williams. But love will make you do crazy things’. He added: ‘I’m hoping the Academy invites me back. Thank you’.
Smith’s relationship with his wife had been the butt of jokes during awards season. At the BAFTAs in London a fortnight ago host Rebel Wilson targeted the couple when he won won the Leading Actor award for his role in King Richard. The assembled audience at the Royal Albert Hall, which didn’t include the star who stayed in LA, groaned as she said his ‘best performance in the past year was being OK with all his wife’s boyfriends’ – a nod to Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith’s open relationship.
It came after he recently admitted his wife had ‘never believed in a conventional marriage’ and claims she had an affair. This may explain why he reacted so sensitively to Rock’s joke about her.
Full LAPD statement on Smith slapping Rock
Late Sunday night, the LAPD issued a statement saying that Rock had not filed a police report against Smith, but that if he chooses to do so, police will investigate.
‘LAPD investigative entities are aware of an incident between two individuals during the Academy Awards program,’ the statement said. ‘The incident involved one individual slapping another.’
It was not immediately clear whether the Academy would penalize Smith in any way for his outburst.
The slapping incident occurred after Rock cracked jokes about the ‘GI Jane’ haircut — referring to the Demi Moor character who famously had a shaved head — of Pinkett Smith.
The shocking scene, broadcast live around the world, stunned both the live audience at the Dolby Theatre and TV viewers.
After Smith strode out on stage and slapped Rock with an open right hand, Rock staggered and exclaimed ‘wow, Will Smith just smacked the s**t out of me.’
Smith, visibly emotional, walked back to his seat in the audience and shouted: ‘Keep my wife’s name out of your f***ing mouth.’
The incident that sparked it all, was when Rock looked at Jada, who has a shaved head, and said: ‘Jada, can’t wait for GI Jane 2’, prompting the actress to roll her eyes. Pinkett Smith has been grappling with hair loss since revealing her alopecia diagnosis in 2018.
After being slapped, Rock appeared shocked and flustered as he tried to resume presenting the best documentary feature category.
‘That was the greatest night in the history of television,’ Rock said, before awkwardly returning to presenting best documentary, which went to Questlove’s ‘Summer of Soul (…or When the Revolution Was Not Televised).’
Vanity Fair executive editor Ramin Setoodeh, who was tweeting live from the ceremony, said that someone who works for the Oscars told him that Rock was not interrupted by Smith at rehearsals yesterday.
‘It was not supposed to happen. It was real,’ he wrote.
After the slap seen round the world, Smith was seen being comforted and consoled by Denzel Washington and actor-producer Tyler Perry.
Bradley Cooper also pulled Smith aside and was seen in close conversation with him.
Setoodeh, watching from inside the theater, said that Smith’s publicist approached him and spoke to him during a commercial break.
It meant Smith again took the stage shortly after what seemed likely to be one of the most infamous moments in Academy Awards history.
Smith’s acceptance speech vacillated between defense and apology.
‘Richard Williams was a fierce defender of his family,’ Smith said in his first remarks. ‘In this time in my life, in this moment I am overwhelmed by what God is calling on me to do.’
He continued: ‘I’m being called on in my life to love people and to protect people and to be a river to my people.’
Smith shared what Washington told him: ‘At your highest moment, be careful because that’s when the devil comes for you.’
Ultimately, Smith apologized to the academy and to his fellow nominees, but not to Rock.
‘Art imitates life. I look like the crazy father’ said Smith. ‘But love will make you do crazy things.’
Inside Will Smith and Chris Rock’s long-running feud: Comedian first made joke about actor’s wife Jada at 2016 Oscars and has continued take jabs at the couple
Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars left the audience and viewers at home in a state of shock.
But it’s not the first time that the movie star has been antagonized by the comedian.
In fact, a feud has been brewing between the pair over the past five years thanks to repeated jokes made at Will’s expense.
When hosting the Oscars back in 2016, Chris got himself into trouble with the actor when he used Will’s wife Jada Pinkett Smith as joke material in his opening monologue.
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