Will Smith Oscars slap: New video reveals Jada’s surprising reaction after husband storms stage
New video of Will Smith’s Oscars slap has emerged, revealing Jada Pinkett Smith’s reaction in the moments after the incident that has rocked Hollywood.
It shows her sitting back and apparently laughing in her chair after her husband hit comedian Chris Rock for cracking a joke about her hair.
Pinkett Smith, who has alopecia, appeared at the awards show with a shaved head and rolled her eyes when Rock joked she would star in GI Jane II. It was after this that Smith stormed the stage.
The fresh video appears to have been taken by an attendee at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood is taken from a different angle of the incident to the one beamed around the world and which has since broken YouTube records.
It was uploaded on TikTok where it went viral.
Though her face cannot be seen clearly, Pinkett Smith appears to laugh in the immediate aftermath of the slap, as Rock reacts by saying: “Wow, Will Smith just smacked the s**t out of me”.
The actress, 50, glances briefly at her husband as he shouts for the first time: “Keep my wife’s name out your f***ing mouth”.
However, she keeps her eyes fixed on Rock as Smith repeats his demand at a louder volume.
Pinkett Smith then appears to chuckle again as Rock by saying: “The greatest night in the history of television”.
Rock on Wednesday night told an audience at his sold-out comedy show in Boston that he was ‘still processing’ being slapped on stage by Smith at the Oscars, in his first public response to Sunday’s shocking incident.
Dressed all in white, Rock, 57, took to the stage at the Wilbur Theatre and asked the excited crowd: “Sooooo, how was your weekend?”
With the crowd all handing over their cell phones before the show began, the former Saturday Night Live star was greeted with a long standing ovation in the first of two sets he performed Wednesday as part for his Ego Death Tour.
However, the usually-uninhibited funnyman quickly shut down any hopes he would crack jokes about the slap heard round the world to the 3000 fans in the audience, some of whom reportedly paid nearly $1000 for a ticket.
“Let me be all misty and s***,” he said, with tears in his eyes.
“I don’t have a bunch of s*** to say about that, so if you came here for that…” he said, and paused.
“I had written a whole show before this weekend.
“I’m still processing what happened, so at some point I’ll talk about that s***. It’ll be serious. It’ll be funny, but right now I’m going to tell some jokes.”
Rock skirted the subject again in his second set but seemingly confirmed that he has not spoken with Smith since being smacked in the jaw on live television.
“I haven’t talked to anyone, despite what you heard,”Rock said.
— with Daily Mail UK
