Academy Awards (Oscars 2022)

No idea - don't know the in's and outs of his business affairs but just watching the clip of the slap its screams fake.

Granted the shout up at the stage after the fact seems legit but had really connected I think Rock would have been more unsettled in his stance. He walked towards will and almost braced himself.

Just my opinion on what I have seen - couldn't really give to F's for these type pf people. not my thing.

It so was not. Makes 0 sense to stage something like that....what for?

Using the “f” word on national tv here is a no no!

the fact they cut it out but you could still see him say F***, was hilarious.

this wasn’t staged, this was Jada getting her knickers in a twist. Ordering her more famous husband to do something, and it went downhill from there.

he knew he was in crap hence the tears.

Rock anticipated (and naturally so) that the man approaching him with purpose was possibly going to do something, hence Rock kind of rode some of the slap. The slap/strike was in no way staged/fake...Smith did what he intended with meaning.

We will never really find out the truth I feel.

Easiest way to keep face is if they agree to say its staged, everyone comes out intact from it.

The idea out there that it was fake because he would have punched not slapped if he was genuine. Good god what a stupid line of thinking.

People have been sued for less.

'Had' will smith assaulted chris rock the amount of money on the line would be ridiculous. The Pay out for the physical damage and the public embarrassment caused would prob be 100million plus. Sounds stupid but this is hollywood where everything is stupid.

Each to their own but for me it was a fake slap - everything else that happened afterwards is open to debate but not the slap or lack their of.

this is the problem - he's so out of touch with reality he doesn't realise what he's done or how he's perceived.

his sense of entitlement is disgusting, he thinks he can do whatever he wants.

Chris Rock was asked by police if he wanted to press charges against Smith, but he said no.

That question never even would have reached him if it was staged.

Edit: The LAPD even released a statement on it:

So the LAPD themselves have confirmed it was a slap and therefore an actual incident, not a faked/staged event.

And you believe everything you read online. Statement released by an agent more than likely

Maybe it was an early April fool

So, partly staged...how can this be partly staged....either it is staged or not....

The slap was staged, but the rest may not have been.....how is this sense?

OK, can we put to bed that it was staged.

It was not staged.

A) there is phone footage from the press gallery upstairs, taken by controllers and reporters filming the aftermath in the next ad break, the commentary and the assistants scurrying about and the people taking Smith aside to talk to him off camera, it's clear nobody there considered it staged.

B) if it was staged, what was the point of it? What entertainment value or point to be made came from such a contrived incident? Absolutely none.

C) if it was to have been staged, that means it would have had to be included in the production design and editorial. And while admittedly, the Academy did allow some desperate shyte to pass as entertainment in the show, there's no way they would have sanctioned an assault and a rant, in any circumstances. Because, back to point B above, what possible value would it add, what point would it be making?

It wasn't staged. It was a truly bizarre and outrageous spontaneous moment. Both parties at fault. People's families are out of bounds and also you don't belt people.