Will Smith joined a popular social media trend and appeared to humorously allude to the occasion when he slapped Chris Rock during the 2022 Academy Awards.
In a recent TikTok video, Will Smith, who is 54 years old, seemed to make a reference to his controversial slap of Chris Rock at the 2022 Academy Awards, which occurred when the latter made a joke about Will’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. The incident went viral, and Will went on to win an Oscar. The actor posted a duet clip with Sam Rossi, also known as Miss Money Working, who had created a video encouraging users to ask an inanimate object for its thoughts on them. She explained that this works because everything has consciousness in her original video.
In the duet video, Will was seen sitting on a couch while watching Sam Rossi explain on screen how one can ask any object, be it a car, pen, money or anything else, for its opinion of oneself, and the answer will come from intuition. After she finished, he slowly brought his Best Actor Oscar statue, which he won for his role in King Richard, into view. With a curious expression on his face, he seemed to contemplate asking the Oscar for its thoughts on him, especially after the slap incident, and began to speak just as the video ended.
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The video garnered a lot of reactions from fans, with many applauding Will’s ability to make light of the regrettable move he had previously acknowledged. Some shared their opinions on what the Oscar might say, with one fan suggesting, “What have we learned?” and another person wondering, “You OK, bro?” in response to the Oscar.
Almost a year after the headline-grabbing slap incident, Will has posted his latest video. In the aftermath of the incident, Will issued an apology to all those affected, including Chris and his family. He also uploaded a six-minute video in which he expressed his deep remorse and explained that he was trying to acknowledge his mistake without feeling ashamed of himself. “I’m human, and I made a mistake, and I’m trying not to think of myself as a piece of s*it,” he said in the video.
As a consequence of the slap, Will was banned from the Academy Awards for a decade. In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly in November, he expressed concerns that the negative situation might have affected the success of his 2022 film, Emancipation. “The only discomfort my heart has around that is that so many people have done spectacular work on this film,” he said. “I definitely lose a couple of winks of sleep every night thinking that I could have potentially penalized my team, but I’m going to do everything I can to make sure everyone gets seen in the light that they deserve.”
