{"id":1404560,"date":"2022-03-28T10:15:58","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T14:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1404560"},"modified":"2022-03-28T10:16:06","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T14:16:06","slug":"leslie-odom-jr-on-will-smith-hitting-chris-rock-two-artists-its-always-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leslie-odom-jr-on-will-smith-hitting-chris-rock-two-artists-its-always-beautiful\/","title":{"rendered":"Leslie Odom Jr. on Will Smith Hitting Chris Rock: &#039;Two Artists &#8230; It&#039;s Always Beautiful&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fleslie-odom-jr-on-will-smith-hitting-chris-rock-two-artists-its-always-beautiful%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1404560&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Actor and singer Leslie Odom Jr. told\u00a0<em>Vanity Fair<\/em> Sunday evening after Oscar winner Will Smith appeared to slap comedian Chris Rock onstage that the shocking spectacle was \u201ca vulnerable moment\u201d between \u201ctwo artists,\u201d which was \u201calways beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smith initially appeared to laugh after Rock made fun of his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, for her alopecia, a condition that causes hair loss. Rock suggested that she star in\u00a0<em>G.I. Jane 2<\/em>, referring to Demi Moore, who shaved her head in the original.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Then, Smith climbed onstage, walked up to Rock, and struck him in the face before returning to his seat. Rock, stunned, exclaimed: \u201cWow! Will Smith just smacked the shit out of me!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smith, from the audience, yelled: \u201cKeep my wife\u2019s name out your f*ckin\u2019 mouth!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rock responded: \u201cWow, dude! It was a\u00a0<em>G.I. Jane<\/em> joke.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Smith repeated: \u201cKeep my\u00a0wife\u2019s name out your f*ckin\u2019 mouth!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to, OK? Wow. OK. That was a \u2026 greatest night the history of television,\u201d Rock continued.<\/p>\n<p>After the incident, security did not remove Smith, nor was he arrested. He went on to deliver an acceptance speech after winning Best Actor for portraying Richard Williams, father to tennis stars Venus and Serna Williams, in\u00a0<em>King Richard<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The audience applauded his speech.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to\u00a0<em>Vanity Fair<\/em>\u00a0afterwards, Odom described the altercation as an authentic and \u201cbeautiful\u201d interaction between \u201cartists.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Leslie Odom Jr. comments on the Will Smith and Chris Rock incident. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VFOscars?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#VFOscars<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NOI1ZwK4xZ\">pic.twitter.com\/NOI1ZwK4xZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VanityFair\/status\/1508294245114945541?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis business can sometimes feel like walking around with your skin ripped off, you know\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s a very vulnerable thing. And so, I think we saw two artists, you know, with their hearts open. It\u2019s a vulnerable moment. Sometimes it\u2019s messy, but it\u2019s always beautiful when it\u2019s the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOooh, that was lovely,\u201d an interviewer exclaimed.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of <\/em>Breitbart News Sunday<em> on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neither-Free-nor-Fair-Presidential-ebook\/dp\/B08PNN54BB\">Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election<\/a>. His recent book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerstreet.com\/titles\/joel-b-pollak\/red-november\/9781546099840\/\">RED NOVEMBER<\/a><em>, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelpollak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@joelpollak<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor and singer Leslie Odom Jr. told\u00a0Vanity Fair Sunday evening after Oscar winner Will Smith appeared to slap comedian Chris Rock onstage that the shocking spectacle was \u201ca vulnerable moment\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1404560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1404560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1404560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1404560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}