Chris Rock doesn’t like Oscar reference in “Bad Boys 4”
Will Smith and Martin Lawrence seemed to subtly allude to Smith’s infamous slap at the 2022 Oscars in “Bad Boys 4,” but Chris Rock was not impressed.
The scene is set towards the end of the new action film and shows Lawrence’s character Marcus repeatedly slapping Mike (played by Will) to snap him out of the daze he was in in the middle of a serious argument.
As TMZ noted, many took this as Smith’s way of responding to the Oscar slap in his first major film comeback since the controversial encounter.
However, sources say the scene only reopened old wounds for Rock, as he suffered Smith’s slap in real life at the 2022 Oscars.
“Chris thinks it’s a pretty cheap trick and tells people how lame he thinks it is,” a source told In Touch. “This is a classic case of Will making light of a terrible situation. Will is playing the victim. It was the lowest point of his career, but that’s no excuse.”
Rock, who has “kept a low profile” since the viral moment, “finds Will’s attention-seeking disgusting,” the insider added.
“It annoys him that people keep bringing it up. He suffered just as much as Will did and now Will has turned it into a funny scene in his movie. For Chris, this is further proof that Will is a complete idiot who deserves all the crap he’s gotten. Chris isn’t going to let up. If there’s an opportunity to get revenge on Will later, he’ll take it.”
Smith, 55, was banned from attending the Oscars for 10 years after he walked onstage during the 2022 ceremony and slapped Rock, 59, after the comedian made a joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.
“Jada, I love you,” Chris said. “GI Jane 2, I can’t wait to see it.”
The joke was a reference to Jada’s hair, which the actress openly admitted is the result of her battle with alopecia. The joke infuriated Smith, who got up from his front seat to walk up to Rock and slap him on stage for all to see.
When he returned to his seat, he yelled at Rock, “Keep my wife’s name out of your damn mouth.”
The shocking exchange occurred just minutes before Smith accepted his Oscar for best actor for King Richard.
The first Oscar of his career and one of the biggest awards of the evening.
Four months after the slapping attack, Smith finally officially apologized to Rock in a YouTube video.
“Chris, I apologize to you. My behavior was unacceptable and I am here whenever you are ready to talk,” Smith said.
Rock followed up with a scathing segment on Will and Jada in his 2023 comedy special “Selective Outrage,” which came out a year after the Oscar smackdown. Rock omitted Smith, telling the “Men In Black” star that his anger was misguided and should have been directed at his wife for her “entanglements.”
“His wife fucked her son’s friend…she hurt him a lot more than he hurt me,” Rock joked.
“Everybody called that man an asshole,” Rock added of Smith. “They called his wife a predator… And who did he hit? Me! A n— he knows he can beat up.”
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