Everyone will remember this Sunday, March 27, 2022 when during the Oscars ceremony, Will Smith skidded live. After a tasteless joke about the bald head of Jada Pinkett-Smith made by Chris Rock who came to present an award, the actor rose from his seat to violently slap the comedian. After this unprecedented incident, Will Smith apologized but is subject to sanctions from the Academy and many professional projects are currently on stand-by. On his side, Chris Rock still hasn’t come back on this humiliation, but he could do it on one condition.
Chris Rock ready to talk but not immediately
Indeed, after having dealt a violent slap to Chris Rock, Will Smith apologized for his gesture when he received the Oscar for best actor a few minutes later for his role in The Williams Method. But that wasn’t enough because we learned that the actor was barred from the Oscar ceremonies for the next 10 years.
For his part, after this humiliation live on television, Chris Rock did not wish to speak or very little. Just hours after the slap, the comedian saw ticket sales for his one-man show soar. The day after the ceremony, the 57-year-old comedian had just said on stage in front of his audience that‘he didn’t have much to say and he was still digesting what had happened. Adding however, that to “at some point i’m going to talk about this m€$*% and it will be serious and funny but not tonight“.
Waiting for a substantial offer?
If we could imagine that Chris Rock would soon address this case, it seems that this is not the case. And for good reason: according to TMZthe comedian reportedly told his audience last Friday thathe would only talk about the slap on one condition: to be paid.
I’m well. I have a whole show to do, and I won’t talk about it until I get paid. Life is beautiful. I recently got my hearing back.
It seems like Chris Rock is waiting for an interesting offer to come his way to revisit the slap incident at the Oscars. He is in no hurry since after the ceremony, the artist fills the halls for his one-man show. For its part, the American media imagines that the entourage of Chris Rock would have been approached by various television channels, but that the offer was certainly not big enough.