Chris Rock is reportedly not pleased with Will Smith’s new movie, Bad Boys: ‘Ride or Die’.
According to reports, Rock is not over being slapped by Smith at the Oscars. In the new film, there is a “slap scene” in which Rock says it’s “reminiscent” of the Oscars incident.
A source close to Rock says, “Chris thinks it’s a pretty cheap stunt and he’s telling people how lame he finds it,” the source said. “It’s a classic case of Will making light of a horrific situation. Will’s playing the victim. It was the lowest point of his career, but that’s no excuse.”
The source added, “It aggravates him that people keep bringing it up. He suffered as much as Will has and now Will has turned it into a funny scene in his movie. As far as Chris is concerned, it’s more proof that Will’s a total piece of work who deserves all the crap he’s gotten.”
Chris Rock isn’t the only one who believes Smith has some explaining to do. Smith has since apologized to Rock, however, sports analyst Stephen A. Smith says that’s simply not enough. During a recent episode of The Stephen A. Smith Show he expresses, “I’m not nearly as interested in seeing Will Smith in the movies than I am of seeing him doing an actual sit-down interview with somebody to explain why he did what he did,” he said.
“I don’t care if it’s with [blogs]. I don’t care if it’s with Oprah. Because you know it ain’t gonna be me, right? He ain’t gonna sit down with me because some questions are gonna get asked. But I don’t care who it’s with. You gotta provide an explanation as to why that happened. It can’t be that you went to therapy and you learned the error of your ways, or you’ve addressed some of the demons that were plaguing you mentally and emotionally and spiritually. That’s not good enough! And even though we weren’t the ones that were slapped literally, ladies and gentlemen, figuratively, the Black community was slapped.”
He continued: “We know you wouldn’t have smacked Ricky Gervais,” he continued, “Bill Maher, Bill Burr, or a host of others. We know you wouldn’t have done that. No apology necessary. I’m just saying a lot of folks ain’t get over that. A lot of folks find it hard to just go to the movies to watch you. I’m one of those people, and I never missed a Will Smith movie.”
The film earned $104.6 million globally in its opening weekend.