Chris Rock’s brother wants Will Smith’s Oscar revoked, isn’t accepting his apology

Like many individuals on Oscar night time, Kenny Rock watched what occurred to his brother Chris Rock by way of a video posted on social media. Previous to viewing it, he thought perhaps the scene of actor Will Smith slapping his brother was staged. However when he noticed the video and heard Smith cursing, he knew it was actual.

“It eats at me watching it over and over since you’ve seen a beloved one being attacked and there’s nothing you are able to do about it,” Kenny Rock instructed the Instances in an interview. “Each time I’m watching the movies, it’s like a rendition that simply retains going again and again in my head. My brother was no risk to him and also you simply had no respect for him at that second. You simply belittled him in entrance of hundreds of thousands of folks that watch the present.”

Within the wake of the incident, Kenny Rock stated he would really like the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences to take disciplinary motion in opposition to Smith, together with taking away his lead actor Academy Award for his efficiency in “King Richard,” and bar him from attending future Oscars.

Smith has confronted mounting scrutiny because the extraordinary March 27 confrontation throughout the 94th Academy Awards on the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

After Rock made a joke evaluating the coiffure of Smith’s spouse, Jada Pinkett Smith, to Demi Moore’s buzzcut within the 1997 film “G.I. Jane,” Smith received out of his seat, walked onto the stage and slapped Rock within the face.

Some have referred to as the joke insensitive as a result of Pinkett Smith has talked about her struggles with hair loss attributable to alopecia.

However Kenny Rock, an actor and entrepreneur, stated he doesn’t imagine his brother knew that Pinkett Smith had alopecia.

“The joke was humorous,” Kenny Rock stated. “It wasn’t hilarious humorous, however I do know that if he knew that she had alopecia … he wouldn’t made a joke about that. However he didn’t know.”

One other individual near Rock who was not approved to remark additionally stated the comic didn’t know that Pinkett Smith had alopecia previous to the slapping incident.

After slapping Rock, Smith stayed on the ceremony and accepted his lead actor Oscar lower than an hour later. Throughout his acceptance speech, Smith tearfully apologized to the academy and his fellow nominees for his actions, however to not Rock.

“I might need checked out it in another way had he initially apologized when he received on the stage and cried and accepted the award, however he didn’t, so, proper there that tells me that it’s one thing else,” Kenny Rock stated.

It was solely days after the ceremony in a resignation letter to the academy that Smith publicly included Rock and his household as a part of his apology.

Kenny Rock says he doesn’t settle for Smith’s apology and, to his information, Smith has not personally reached out to him or his household.

“No, I don’t settle for it as a result of I don’t assume it was real,” Kenny Rock stated. “I feel his publicist and the folks that work below him in all probability suggested him to try this.”

Smith’s publicist didn’t instantly return a request for remark.

The 42-year-old actor is one in all Chris Rock’s six siblings. A number of of them have rallied behind their brother, both by talking out on what occurred or by way of their reactions on social media. Final week, comic Tony Rock additionally stated on Twitter he didn’t settle for Smith’s apology.

Kenny Rock stated he first heard concerning the slapping incident as he was using the A Practice in Brooklyn. His buddy was making an attempt to succeed in him to ask him the place he was and if he noticed what occurred, however the sign was not clear on the prepare.

Since then, he’s seen the video of the slap greater than 20 instances.

Kenny Rock stated Smith and his brother have recognized one another because the late ’80s or early ’90s, and he thought they’d a “fairly good relationship” previous to the slapping incident.

The youthful Rock stated that he thinks the academy ought to have eliminated Smith from the Oscars instantly.

“He ought to have been escorted out of there,” he stated. “I maintain them accountable for that. He might have went up there and did something you wished to my brother. It might have been a lot worse than what he did.”

The academy declined to remark on Kenny Rock’s feedback.

The group plans to maneuver ahead with disciplinary proceedings in opposition to Smith for violations of its requirements of conduct on April 18. The academy has apologized to Chris Rock, its nominees, company and viewers and stated that it had requested Smith depart the ceremony.

“Mr. Smith’s actions on the 94th Oscars had been a deeply surprising, traumatic occasion to witness in-person and on tv,” the academy stated.

It’s unclear what disciplinary actions might be taken in opposition to Smith. Whoopi Goldberg, one of many academy’s governors, stated on the discuss present “The View,” “We’re not going to take that Oscar from him.”

“He belittled my brother. He had no respect for him,” Kenny Rock stated. “In my view, he embarrassed himself by doing that and his legacy by doing that.”