Why People Think the Slap Heard Around the World was Faked | Will Smith and Chris Rock at the Oscars
Photo: Will Smith and Chris Rock at the Oscars I woke up to dozens of messages from my friends and news alerts about the slap heard around the world: Will Smith smacked Chris Rock live at the Oscars. What?? I couldn’t believe my eyes. The uncensored clip of the slap and the obscenities that followed had accumulated over 27 million views by 7 am Monday morning, only seven hours after the Oscars themselves had ended. Instantly, I headed over to social media to see what people were saying. And to my surprise, dozens of comments and posts were calling the incident staged. That, for me, was almost more shocking than the actual incident itself. After watching it about a billion more times, I just couldn’t fathom why people would think it was faked. So, instead of deciding everyone else is wrong, I thought I would research the event and write about it instead.
- 3/29/2022
- by Z Murphy
- Hollywood Insider - Substance & Meaningful Entertainment
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