Will Smith Taught a kid How To Slap Before the Oscars debacle
In footage obtained by TMZ, a video from last year shows Oscar winner Will Smith demonstrating the art of a fake slap to a group of children.
The young man, supposedly named Chris, an unfortunate
coincidence, asked Smith how he fakes fights in his famous movies.
Naturally, the apparent slap addict showed it to him.
While Smith didn't actually slap Chris, it was an eerie
foreshadowing of the series of unfortunate events that was the 94th Academy
Awards.
At the 2022 Oscars on Sunday night, Smith slapped comedian
Chris Rock in the face after he made a bawdy joke about Jada Pickett Smith's
baldness.
"Get my wife's name out of your fucking mouth!" Smith screamed,
twice, from his ringside seat in a bewildered post-Rock brawl. Will has
since apologized for his actions including to Rock, and on Tuesday morning
Jada finally responded to the controversy by posting about this being "a
season of healing and I'm here for it" on Rock's Instagram account.
her.
The shocking slap, televised to homes around the world,
was a hit on Twitter where internet pranksters created a mint of slap
memes.
Late night host Jimmy Kimmel even referred to the altercation as "the
old 'Hitch' smack," referring to Smith's 2005 knee-slapping comedy.
Kimmel, who originally thought the hit was staged, said he
quickly realized it wasn't fake at all.
“In one stunning moment, the night went from ‘Oscars So What?’
to ‘Oscars So WHAAAAAT?!’” he joked on his show “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
Other late-night comics also chimed in, including "The Tonight
Show" host Jimmy Fallon, who said it was "It's nice that we all come
together and say 'shit' at the same time."
“Get ready for next year's 95th Academy Awards Duel to the
Death of Oscar Slaptacular. Five nominees go in, one goes out," joked
Stephen Colbert, host of "The Late Show."
But this isn't the first time Smith has struck out.
In 2012, the "King Richard" actor slapped prankster Vitalii Sediuk
posing as a journalist when he tried to kiss Smith on the cheek at the
Moscow premiere of "Men in Black III."
"What the hell is your problem, man?" Smith berated Sediuk
before grazing his face with a backhand.
