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Will Smith punches Chris Rock on stage at the Oscars.

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CheeseMuffin · 28/03/2022 04:10

I think I speak for us all when I ask WTF just happened?

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/mar/27/will-smith-punch-chris-rock-wife-joke-gi-jane-video-oscars

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NdefH81 · 28/03/2022 06:48

@learningalways

That was 100% real. Absolutely real. I can't see why anyone would think any of that was fake.
Those of us who have worked in PR
autienotnaughty · 28/03/2022 06:48

@RantyAunty

There's always been talk of his toxic behaviour behind the scenes. The public just got to see it.
Which one will or Chris?
NdefH81 · 28/03/2022 06:49

Will smith DID hit him. That’s not the fake bit.

But the entire scenario will have been pre agreed

Motnight · 28/03/2022 06:49

Wow. Can't see that it was staged - why would something like that be staged?

Interesting to see what Will says about this. The whole Will Smith fairy-tale is taking a bit of a beating at the moment with the open marriage thing and the being caught out lying about it.

HereWeGoAgain322 · 28/03/2022 06:50

Its not the first time chris Rock has mocked Jada. He deserves it.

debbrianna · 28/03/2022 06:50

This is where I stand with Jada p. Chris rock has a whole famous documentary about black women's hair and the politics around it. The misogynior. He talks about his own daughter and hair identity.

Jada is scared of award shows. I have watched her talk about bring uncomfortable being in crowds and ways taking her son to help her coupe with anxiety. This is before the alopecia.

Jada wore the head wraps for while, then revealed she was tired and her daughter will shaved her head too to help her mum deal with hair loss.

This is all public.

Chris rock was out of line
Will Smith is out of line.

The disrespected person hear is Jada Pinket

LetHimHaveIt · 28/03/2022 06:50

Just busily screen-shotting some of the absolute gold on here in case the thread is deleted . . .

ZoyaTheDestroyer · 28/03/2022 06:51

@SpinningTheSeedsOfLove

This is going to be a really overwhelming and boring two weeks of discourse. Utterly predictable shit will be said.

I agree this will happen, @Nancydrawn. The Guardian is probably waking up its usual columnists for 500 words before breakfast. The Mail has Jan Moir on speed dial. Spiked magazine pundits will be frenetic. Nick Ferrari will ask Keir Starmer about it at 9am. And oh god, Lorraine Kelly …

I can’t believe I have to go to work and won’t be able to find out what the Loose Women think of it all.
NdefH81 · 28/03/2022 06:51

@Motnight

Wow. Can't see that it was staged - why would something like that be staged?

Interesting to see what Will says about this. The whole Will Smith fairy-tale is taking a bit of a beating at the moment with the open marriage thing and the being caught out lying about it.

Would we be talking about the Oscar’s if this hasn’t have happened Would the Oscar’s be in the headlines?

No!

It was becoming stale and out of date

Now - we are talking about it, and leading headline

That is why

jungledoc · 28/03/2022 06:51

I don’t think violence is the answer, but Chris Rock in not a comedian and was a real bully with what he said. It was nasty. He could say anything up on stage and the people on the receiving end are just meant to sit there and take it.

This is kind of the standard thing that happens at these shows though.

HumousWhereTheHeartIs · 28/03/2022 06:51

It was definitely not staged. The LAPD and the Academy have issued statements. I think this could be the end of Will Smith's career. He is clearly very angry, violent and arrogant.

Habitatty282 · 28/03/2022 06:52

The thing about the joke, he compared her to GI Jane, an absolutely gorgeous, strong, incredible woman. Demi Moore was iconic in that role, so beautiful. Jada could have taken that as a compliment, said 'thankyou' and stroked her head or something like that, empowered all the women out there with alopecia. I have disabilities and the best thing you can do is laugh about them. It was a pretty tame joke.

jungledoc · 28/03/2022 06:53

I don’t really like these events where celebrities have to sit and smile through nasty jokes that are usually meant to be shocking rather than witty/funny.

For some weird reason I think the powers that be have decided that this is the best way to make the celebs seem "normal" & can take a joke.

jungledoc · 28/03/2022 06:54

Those of us who have worked in PR

Not good PR

Dita73 · 28/03/2022 06:54

Chris Rock was a bastard for making that “joke” and Jada looked utterly humiliated. If Will Smith was my husband I would die of pride. He saw that his wife was hurt by what was said and he wasn’t standing for it. Chris Rock wanted a reaction and he got one! It was only a matter of time before someone smacked Chris Rock or some other comedian who thinks it’s ok to make personal jokes about people. Yes they put themselves in the public eye so they can be seen as fair game but for laughing at someone with a medical condition and mocking their appearance is an unbelievably low and shitty thing to do. Good for Will I say

mnnewbie111 · 28/03/2022 06:56

I too would slap him if he said something like that about so fine I loved. Not funny

mnnewbie111 · 28/03/2022 06:56

someone

lemmein · 28/03/2022 06:56

@Sushi7

Another celeb who thinks he’s above the law and he clearly is because a “normal” person would end up in a cell. It’s not a nice joke, but Will LAUGHED and then assaulted an innocent man. I used to really like Will Smith when he was younger. However, now there’s something about him and his family that give me the creeps.
Agreed - they have a cult-vibe about them.
jungledoc · 28/03/2022 06:56

It was only a matter of time before someone smacked Chris Rock or some other comedian who thinks it’s ok to make personal jokes about people

So Ricky Gervais won't be doing the Golden Globes again then!

MrsPear · 28/03/2022 06:57

H just went very northern Albanian and said it’s real as every man knows to not insult someone’s wife as it equals trouble. Then he asked why slap?!

NdefH81 · 28/03/2022 06:57

@jungledoc

Those of us who have worked in PR

Not good PR

This is brilliant PR

The Oscars are being talking about internationally
Controversy
Drama

They nailed it

jungledoc · 28/03/2022 06:59

Regina Hall joked about their open marriage & I bet that didn't help as it's embarrassing.

HumousWhereTheHeartIs · 28/03/2022 06:59

In work in tv. Had this been staged, there would have been a camera on Jada Pinkett-Smith getting her reaction and Will would have been mic'd up.

Habitatty282 · 28/03/2022 06:59

Dita73 you'd die of pride?!! Wow!! I would be utterly mortified and ashamed if my DH did that. There's other ways of defending the ones you love, violence is never the answer.

LetHimHaveIt · 28/03/2022 07:00

'Would we be talking about the Oscar’s if this hasn’t have happened
Would the Oscar’s be in the headlines?

No!

It was becoming stale and out of date

Now - we are talking about it, and leading headline

That is why.'

You are talking abject nonsense. Oscar winners - especially the 'Big Five' - are always headline news. Always.

Precisely no-one in their right mind, would think an onstage smack-down between two black men, was a good idea 'to boost ratings'. No-one in their right mind would think Chris Rock and Will Smith agreed beforehand, to such a career-damaging set-up.

I don't for a minute think you're in PR, unless it's in the same way my next-door-neighbour who does the Facebook page for her dad's handyman business and her own MLM bollocks, thinks she's 'in marketing'.