Zoë Kravitz Blasts Will Smith -- Then Gets Called Out For Perving On Jaden!

The fallout for Will Smith continues. Following the dramatic slapping incident with Chris Rock at the 94th Academy Awards on March 27, the 53-year-old actor’s upcoming film projects have been put on hold. Will’s Netflix film Fast and Loose was “quietly moved to the back burner” by the streaming giant, per a report from The Hollywood Reporter published on April 2. Bad Boys For Life (a.k.a. Bad Boys 4) will also be “paused” by Sony, despite Smith already receiving 40 pages of a script. HollywoodLife has reached out to both Sony and Netflix for comment on the respective films.

Oscars 2022 incident that saw actor Will Smith slap his brother.Tony reportedly referenced the incident on two occasions during his latest comedy show.He told the audience: "If you think you gonna walk up on this stage, this ain't the motherf***ing Oscars."And if you walk your a** you here, you ain't nominated for s**t but these mothef***ing hands!“Oh, we are going to pop the rest of the year. Every time you see me do a show, pop!"Tony later added: "I didn't want to start the show like that!"You gonna hit my motherf***ing brother because your b***h gave you a side-eye?"The moment in question took place last Sunday after Chris made a joke about Will’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, sporting a buzzcut.The actress has a condition called alopecia which causes hair loss.Moments after the jibe, The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air actor was seen storming the stage and hitting Chris across the face.Will has since offered Chris a public apology as he stressed that he “deeply regrets” his behaviour.In a statement shared with his 63 million Instagram followers, Will explained why the joke was “too much for [him] to bear”.He wrote: “Violence in all of its forms is poisonous and destructive.“My behaviour at last night’s Academy Awards was unacceptable and inexcusable. “Jokes at my expense are a part of the job, but a joke about Jada’s medical condition was too much for me to bear and I reacted emotionally.“I would like to publicly apologise to you, Chris.

Jerrod Carmichael made his hosting debut on “Saturday Night Live” this weekend and used his monologue to address the elephant in the room — the Will Smith/Chris Rock Oscars slap, and the endless social dialog that has erupted from it.

Saturday Night Live took on the Will Smith Oscars slap in a number of sketches across the show.Before winning the Best Actor award for his role in King Richard, Smith took to the stage to slap Chris Rock over a joke the latter made about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head. In 2018, Pinkett Smith revealed she has alopecia.Host Jerrod Carmichael dissected the incident in his cold open on Saturday Night Live without directly mentioning Smith, Rock or the word “slap”.“I’m not going to talk about it,” Carmichael said. “I want to be clear up top.

Will Smith has resigned from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, days after he released an apology for slapping Chris Rock during the Oscars. Smith announced his resignation Friday, saying he had "betrayed the trust of the academy" in a statement provided to Fox News Digital. "I have directly responded to the academy’s disciplinary hearing notice, and I will fully accept any and all consequences for my conduct.

Oscars as he won the award for Best Actor at the star-studded event. But earlier that night, the King Richard actor took to the stage and slapped comedian Chris Rock for making a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith.Jada had shared last year how she had shaved her hair following a battle with alopecia.Following his remark, Will took to the stage and slapped Chris before telling him to not speak his wife’s name.He could be heard shouting from his seat: “Keep my wife’s name out your f***ing mouth.”Denzel, 67, was one of the first people to console Will in the immediate aftermath.Will, who faces disciplinary action from the Academy, announced his resignation from the awards body on Friday (1 April).Denzel has since spoken publicly about the events which took place at the awards ceremony for the first time at a Leadership Summit in Washington DC.During the actor's tearful speech for last Sunday, Will told the audience that Denzel issued him a word of caution, saying: “In your highest moments, be careful; that’s when the devil comes for you.”According to reports, Denzel has since confirmed the comments he made to his pal.“There’s a saying when the devil ignores you, then you know you’re doing something wrong," he explained."The devil goes, ‘Oh, no, leave him alone, he’s my favourite.’"He added: “Conversely, when the devil comes at you, maybe it’s because he’s trying to do something right.

slapped comedian Chris Rock in face at the Oscars over a joke about his wife.In a sketch taking place at the Oscars, host Jerrod Carmichael plays a seat filler who gets opportunity to meet one of his heroes, Will Smith, played by Chris Redd. The two strike up an innocuous, friendly conversation and the filler asks Smith for a selfie when suddenly the audio of Chris Rock’s “G.I.

Will Smith following his altercation with Chris Rock at this year’s Oscars.During the ceremony on March 27, Rock made a “joke” on stage about Smith’s wife Jada Pinkett Smith, referring to her as “G.I. Jane” because of her shaven head.

Jerrod Carmichael is making his Saturday Night Live debut!

It was probably inevitable — Saturday Night Live did its own interpretation of the altercation between Will Smith and Chris Rock at the Oscars. The skit did not show the slap, instead focusing on Will Smith, played by Chris Redd, who is having a conversation with a seat filler, played by host Jerrod Carmichael, during Chris Rock’s speech.

If you were expecting to hear a lot about Will Smith’s slap of Chris Rock at the Oscars on March 27, tonight’s Saturday Night Live cold open didn’t have a lot to offer.

“Thank you. Thank you very, very much. I’m not going to talk about it,” actor-comedian Jerrod Carmichael said up top, in his first opening monologue as host of SNL. “I want to be clear up top: I’ve talked about it enough, kept talking about it, kept thinking about it. I don’t want to talk about it, and you can’t make me talk about it.”

Jerrod Carmichael made his hosting debut on this weekend and used his monologue to address the elephant in the room — the Will Smith/Chris Rock Oscars slap, and the endless social dialog that has erupted from it.And, to show just how endless the debate and controversy has been, he doesn't, not once, need to say Smith or Rock's name.«I'm not going to talk about it. I want to be clear up top. I talked about it enough. Kept talking about it.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeIf you were expecting this week’s “Saturday Night Live” to kick off with a sketch parodying the Will Smith/Chris Rock slap at the Oscars, you may have been disappointed by the cold open. The slap was indeed mentioned, but it was just one of several topics brought up as the show once again turned to a Fox News parody to lead the episode.This week, it was another go at “Fox and Friends,” featuring hosts Steve Doocy (played by Alex Moffat), Ainsley Earhardt (Heidi Gardner) and Brian Kilmeade (Mikey Day). The hosts welcomed Clarence Thomas (Kenan Thompson) and wife Ginni Thomas (Kate McKinnon) — whose support of the January 6 attempted coup has become a lightning rod for scandal.

A comedian said he felt let down by Will Smith’s Oscars attack after it overshadowed the three awards won by Coda.

extraordinary attack on presenter Chris Rock during the awards ceremony ended all that. And if Smith believes his resignation from Hollywood’s film academy this weekend might draw a line under the affair, he will be disappointed. Although the 53-year-old is unlikely to be stripped of his best actor statuette, his commercial appeal to producers has been seriously damaged.

Gallery: ‘He was rude, dismissive and entitled!' These are the worst chat show guests EVER! (BANG Showbiz)But, he added: "You gonna hit my mother******** brother because your b**** gave you a side-eye?" Will apologised to Chris after he struck him at the Oscars, conceding that his behaviour was "unacceptable and inexcusable". The Hollywood star - who won the Best Actor gong for his role in 'King Richard' - posted an apology on his Instagram. He said on the photo-sharing platform: "Violence in all of its forms is poisonous and destructive.

Pedro Almodóvar, whose film Parallel Mothers was nominated for two Oscars, is one of the latest celebs in Hollywood to weigh in on Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at this year’s Academy Awards.

It looks like Netflix is trying to put some distance between itself and Will Smith following his behavior at this year’s Oscars.

Another Rock has spoken out regarding Slapgate; Chris Rock‘s brother, Tony Rock. Defending the most infamous moments of the Oscars 2022, when Will Smith slapped Chris across the face after a joke he made about Jada Pinkett-Smith‘s hair. The slap heard around the world has continued to cause reverberations, and Tony didn’t hold back when he discussed the moment in a new stand-up routine.

With such a great controversy as the Oscar slap, consequences and reprisals are sure to come in the aftermath. While Will Smith has side-stepped some punishments from the Academy by quitting the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences—though an inquiry will still go forward regardless, and there could still be further penalties applied—others in Hollywood are still considering their options.