{"id":1419697,"date":"2022-04-05T11:00:13","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T15:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1419697"},"modified":"2022-04-05T11:00:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T15:00:16","slug":"bad-boys-director-michael-bay-says-will-smiths-oscars-assault-was-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bad-boys-director-michael-bay-says-will-smiths-oscars-assault-was-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Bad Boys\u2019 Director Michael Bay Says Will Smith\u2019s Oscars Assault was \u2018Wrong\u2019"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fbad-boys-director-michael-bay-says-will-smiths-oscars-assault-was-wrong%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=1419697&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--><p class=\"subheading\">Michael Bay, who directed Will Smith in the 1995 blockbuster <em>Bad Boys<\/em>,\u00a0said Smith\u2019s physical assault on Chris Rock at the Oscars was \u201cwrong\u201d but added that \u201cthere are babies getting blown up in Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, it\u2019s wrong to begin with,\u201d Michael Bay <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/michael-bay-will-smith-slap-bad-boys-director-babies-in-ukraine-193239571.html\">told<\/a> Yahoo Entertainment while on the road promoting the bank heist-gone-wrong thriller <em>Ambulance<\/em>.\u00a0\u201cBut that\u2019s all people are talking about. And I don\u2019t really care. Hollywood gets really self-absorbed. There are babies getting blown up in Ukraine right now. We should be talking about that.\u201d<\/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><b><i>***LANGUAGE WARNING***<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This type of thuggish behavior has no place in civilized society. Will Smith needs to be charged for assault. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MydlQBTqBT\">pic.twitter.com\/MydlQBTqBT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brigitte Gabriel (@ACTBrigitte) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ACTBrigitte\/status\/1508294636670009344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Bay was happy to vouch for Smith on a personal level after the two joined to help make\u00a0<em>Bad Boys\u00a0<\/em>one of the biggest stars on the planet before pointing out Smith damaged his reputation as one of the nicest guys in Hollywood through nobody\u2019s fault but his own.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve worked with him, he is not that guy,\u201d Bay said, before admitting he thought the slap was a comedy routine until he saw Smith return to his seat and start yelling abuse at Rock.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20485478\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/04\/wi\/ap\/01\/real-news-smith-hits-presenter-chris-rock-stage-award-documentary-featur.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Will Smith, right, hits presenter Chris Rock on stage while presenting the award for best documentary feature at the Oscars on Sunday, March 27, 2022, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo\/Chris Pizzello, File)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never seen him lose his cool like that. I thought it was set up \u2019cause I saw the smirk, and I\u2019ve been on set when Will screws with people, when he\u2019s joking with people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cListen, it was a slap. It wasn\u2019t a punch. He\u2019s very good at fighting, he\u2019s trained at that \u2026 But it\u2019s wrong to begin with.\u201d<\/p>\n<h5><em><span>Follow Simon Kent on Twitter:<\/span> <a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SunSimonKent\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @SunSimonKent<\/a> <span>or e-mail to: skent@breitbart.com<\/span><br \/><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Bay, who directed Will Smith in the 1995 blockbuster Bad Boys,\u00a0said Smith\u2019s physical assault on Chris Rock at the Oscars was \u201cwrong\u201d but added that \u201cthere are babies getting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"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-1419697","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\/1419697","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\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1419697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419697\/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=1419697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1419697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}