Will Smith and Chris Rock stun the Oscars into silence
The Oscars 2022 is in full swing – and a clash between Will Smith and Chris Rock has stunned everyone.
While presenting the Oscar for Documentary Feature, Chris Rock made a joke about Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, comparing her hair to G.I. Jane.
Jada, who previously revealed her alopecia diagnosis which leads to hair loss in 2018, looked unimpressed with the joke, and shortly afterward her husband was onstage and allegedly striking Rock.
Smith then shouted "keep my wife's name out your fucking mouth" twice. You can see an uncensored clip of the moment below.
VIA JAPANESE TELEVISION: The uncensored exchange between Will Smith and Chris Rock pic.twitter.com/j0Z184ZyXaMarch 28, 2022
"Will Smith just smacked Chris Rock and said 'Keep my wife's name out of your FUCKING mouth!' twice after he joked that Jada looked like GI Jane 2," writes Kyle Buchanan, who is attending the ceremony, on Twitter.
Per Vanity Fair: "During the commercial break, reports Rebecca Ford, Denzel Washington pulled Smith over to the side for a conversation, and was kneeling with his arm around Jada Pinkett Smith when the show came back from commercial. Meanwhile in the lobby, people huddled around their phones watching replays of the incident. 'I don't think that's a joke,' one woman said. Two others added, 'Look, we went to rehearsals, and that was not in Chris Rock’s script.'"
The apparent altercation was followed by Puff Diddy introducing a tribute to The Godfather for its 50th anniversary.
This will surely be the biggest talking point of the 2022 Academy Awards, but other notable moments have included Jason Momoa apparently burping into the mic, the first live performance of Encanto's "We Don’t Talk About Bruno," Zack Snyder's Justice League
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