Laughing it off? New footage circulating across social media appears to show Jada Pinkett Smith laughing at Chris Rock after Will Smith slapped him onstage at the 94th Annual Academy Awards.
In the clip, which has been steadily making the rounds on TikTok and beyond, the Red Table Talk host, 50, can be seen seemingly rocking forward with laughter as her husband, 53, walked back to his seat after smacking Rock across the face for making a joke about her closely shorn hair. “Will Smith just smacked the shit out of me,” the comedian, 57, said at the time.
However, things took a tense turn when Smith yelled at Rock, making clear to audience members and viewers at home that the smack was not part of a planned bit during the ceremony. “Keep my wife’s name out of your f—king mouth,” Smith shouted at the time.
The Saturday Night Live alum nervously replied, “Wow, dude. It was a G.I. Jane joke,” referring to the comment he’d made only moments earlier when comparing Pinkett Smith to Demi Moore’s buzzcut in the 1997 film of the same name.
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