He hasn't commented but he's liked other people's (Ricky Gervais)

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It wasnt set up, Chris Rock was in complete shock following the incident, he could barely get his script out. if it was planned he'd get back on track much fast and brushed it off with a good joke.
Also I dont believe Will Smith is a good enough actor for this to be staged.

Can't stand Smith. Completely unacceptable what he did and I can't believe he was allowed to remain in the building. His later "god needs me to protect people" speech was another nauseating slap in the face.

I doubt it was staged. The Oscars might do a lot of crazy things for ratings and attention, but engineering assault on live television is too far, even they wouldn't stoop that low, and I doubt Smith or Rock would agree to such a stunt. Any celebrity with honour and dignity wouldn't dare participate in something like that. Although the Academy must be secretly loving the attention this has brought them. The last big incident at the Oscars to my knowledge was the whole Moonlight/La La Land Best Picture mix up which was 5 years ago. Nothing major has happened since then unless I'm forgetting something. And at the end of the day it isn't the Oscars without some drama.

As for the incident itself, both were in the wrong. Rock shouldn't have made that joke considering him and Jada aren't friends atm. He made jokes about her and Will back when he was hosting the 2016 Oscars. There's a time and place and last night's Oscars wasn't it. He should've known it wasn't gonna go down well with either of them. But Will should've kept his cool, be the bigger person and dealt with it privately. Assaulting him on national television was not a smart thing to do. This pretty much overshadowed his own Best Actor Oscar win.

Why on Earth would an actor as big as Will Smith be the one to stage something like this though and potentially sabotage his career, his Oscar and his golden reputation, that's the bit that doesn't make the theory make any sense.

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Those big houses and lifestyles ain't cheap.

And to add, what Tony said about this altercation now completely overshadowing his winning the Oscar, there's no way he did this on purpose and wanted to have people talking about it instead of how wonderful he is and his Oscar win

He's already worth a fortune, he hardly needs to pull a stunt to make cash, he's one of the highest earning actors around

The Smith's are a bore for the most part now. Yes Will carries most of the talent, but Jada wasn't a bad actress many moon's ago. Also Jaden was a good child actor. He was pretty good In the Pursuit of Happiness, and decent enough in The Karate Kid remake. As for Willow, i remember she had that annoying whipping hair song about 10 years ago, not sure if she's done anything since.

the only aspect that makes me think it could be staged is the fact that Smith got up there all angry and then slapped the guy. Surely it should have been a punch

no hes always been a slapper,
remember when that Ukrainian tried to kiss him on the red carpet, he slapped him also.

Also when he played the role of JOhn Prescott in that New Labour movie he punched a fan

The guy is out of control

it's just a weird action when your angry :shrug:

i'm from a john prescott generation :laugh:

Chris Rock should never have made such a personal ‘joke’, and Will shouldn’t have hit him but let his displeasure be known AFTER the show, both to Chris and the media.
If Will goes around slapping people in public when he’s riled, what may he be like behind closed doors? D:

Not more than me you're not. John Prescott was my MP for most of my life.

From what I understand of how it works in America... unless it's caused serious injury, it's up to the victim whether or not to pursue charges with the police, if they don't want to pursue it then the police won't pursue it. In the UK the police can decide to pursue it whether the victim wants to or not. Have to say in this case I doubt they would though, due to no injury being caused and there being a provokation. (That's not an excuse for getting violent but it would make a difference here, a totally unprovoked assault is always going to be concerning to the police).

He does what his paymasters say. Otherwise they can ruin him in a second.

Not everything is a conspiracy Alf.

Why would anyone have a vested interest in Will Smith slapping Chris Rock? You couldn't even use it as a "racism false flag".

The only "conspiracy" in this is that I think it's really got more to do with Will and Jada's apparent issues of the last couple of years, and very little to do with poor Chris Rock's rubbish G.I. Jane joke. Caught in the crossfire of some unrelated frustrations, IMO.

In their World it is.

Yeah quite possibly

Hollywood hasn't been acting rationally since Trump became President.

You must have noticed?

How is old Harvey Weinstein getting on by the way?

I mean you're posting that like it proves something about this incident?

Somewhere far down the line, it just might be, in a tiny way.

Jada is the bad one in all this, she has publicly taken away Wills masculinity for years and when he did nothing last night she let him know she wasn't happy which led to him going onto the stage

Of course it ends up being the woman's fault eventually [emoji90]

Oops!

I suppose she made him slap that reporter as well. :rolleyes:

Chris Rocks face always looks like it's bracing for contact tbf [emoji28]

Don't they have like a Polyamorous kinda relationship though? I know she was seeing some other dude, but if her and Will have an understanding on that front, surely it's their business?!

What % are you thinking this was staged? Out of 100%.

She told an interviewer that she was cheating on him and if he even cared about her he would have known, and then went onto to humiliate him in that interview which is very much a toxic thing to-be doing and shows you she isn't a very nice person to be with