Final yr, one incident dominated the dialog across the Academy Awards: Will Smith slapping Chris Rock onstage after Rock made a joke about Smith’s spouse, Jada Pinkett Smith. On the Oscars 2023 ceremony, a yr later, the slap is way from forgotten.
Smith is banned from attending the Academy Awards ceremony for 10 years in consequence. Academy president Janet Yang instructed Self-importance Truthful that this yr’s could be a “slap-free present,” however there’s no telling how lengthy we’ll be referencing the surprising second. Host Jimmy Kimmel introduced up the elephant within the room throughout his opening monologue, quipping that if anybody needed to slap Kimmel, he’d should get previous numerous superheroic protectors within the viewers, together with the Mandalorian (Pedro Pascal), Spider-Man (Andrew Garfield), and “the Fabel…man” (Steven Spielberg). And if all of them fail? They’re going to should reply to Guillermo. No, not Greatest Animated Function winner Guillermo del Toro—Guillermo Rodriguez, Kimmel’s longtime TV sidekick.
He certainly will not be the one one tonight to allude to the slap heard ‘around the Web, both.
Rock has actually had lots to say about The Slap up to now yr, commenting on whether or not it harm (sure), Smith’s measurement (huge), and extra.
