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Will Smith and Chris Rock have a history that predates the Oscars slap
Rock declared that the Smiths, in addition to Black director Spike Lee “went mad” over the difficulty as there have been no Black appearing nominees that 12 months.
“Jada boycotting the Oscars is like me boycotting Rihanna’s panties,” Rock stated throughout his opening monologue. “I wasn’t invited.”
Rock went on to joke that he understood Pinkett Smith’s anger.
“Jada’s mad her man Will was not nominated for ‘Concussion.’” Rock stated in reference to the 2015 soccer movie Will Smith starred in. “I get it. It isn’t honest that Will was this good and did not get nominated. It is also not honest that Will was paid $20 million for [the 1999 film] ‘Wild Wild West.’”
Pinkett Smith commented on the jokes days later when requested about them by paparazzi.
“Hey look, it comes with the territory, we gotta hold it transferring,” she stated. “We bought lots of stuff we gotta deal with, lots of stuff happening in our world proper now. We gotta hold it transferring.”
Smith and Rock’s relationship goes again to the Nineteen Nineties. Rock visitor starred on Smith’s hit sequence “The Recent Prince of Bel-Air” the place he performed a personality named Maurice and Maurice’s sister Jasmine.
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