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We asked the artists doing Will Smith’s Oscars slap tattoos: ‘Why?’
It has been an absolutely wild week in the entertainment world, thanks to the chaos that ensued at the Oscars.By now, everyone and their cat has heard about – and formed an opinion on – Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the 94th Academy Awards.There is certainly nuance around the controversy – did Chris know Jada Pinkett Smith has alopecia when he joked about her hair? Should Will have been kicked out of the ceremony minutes before he won his first Oscar? What does Jada actually make of it all?But while most of the Oscars viewers were reeling for hours after watching the shock attack, others had a different reaction: this needs to be a tattoo.This week we reported on two tattoos depicting the now-infamous slap which were going viral on social media, and Metro.co.uk has now spoken with the artists behind the masterpieces.Oscar Aguilar Jr, who is based in New Jersey, says he immediately knew upon watching the shocking clip that it was something that needed to be immortalised.‘The first thing that came to my head [when I saw it] was what happened with Kanye and Taylor Swift,’ he said, referring to the notorious 2009 affair that saw the rapper take the mic from then-teenaged Taylor to declare Beyonce deserved her award.‘It was the same thing,’ he said, describing it as ‘a monumental moment on TV.’‘I wanted to capture that moment in the most simplistic way.’Almost immediately after seeing the clip on social media, Oscar drew a quick sketch of what it could look like as a tattoo, and before too long had a client eager to get it on his skin.And the next morning, just hours after the ‘monumental moment’ had aired across the world, it was done.Oscar shared an edited video of the unveiling to his Instagram, complete with lights
