{"id":1754737,"date":"2022-11-29T10:19:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T15:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1754737"},"modified":"2022-11-29T10:19:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T15:19:14","slug":"will-smith-explains-oscars-slap-says-it-was-rage-that-had-been-bottled-for-a-really-long-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/will-smith-explains-oscars-slap-says-it-was-rage-that-had-been-bottled-for-a-really-long-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Smith Explains Oscars Slap, Says It Was \u2018Rage That Had Been Bottled For A Really Long Time\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\">36<\/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%2Fwill-smith-explains-oscars-slap-says-it-was-rage-that-had-been-bottled-for-a-really-long-time%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=1754737&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>Actor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/will-smith\">Will Smith<\/a>, 54, spoke with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/trevor-noah\">Trevor Noa<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/trevor-noah\">h<\/a> on \u201cThe Daily Show\u201d Monday, blaming his violent outburst against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/celebrities\">Chris Rock<\/a> on an underlying \u201crage\u201d that had been festering for some time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was gone, dude,\u201d Smith told Noah about the incident, <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2022\/tv\/news\/will-smith-daily-show-trevor-noah-oscars-slap-1235443683\/\">according<\/a> to Variety. \u201cThat was a rage that had been bottled for a really long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The actor attempted to explain his behavior, saying, \u201cyou just never know what somebody is going through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was going through something that night,\u201d Smith told the audience. \u201cThat doesn\u2019t justify my behavior at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just gotta be nice to each other, man,\u201d he continued. \u201cIt\u2019s hard. I guess the thing that was most painful for me, is I took my heart and made it hard for other people. I understood the idea when they say hurt people hurt people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cMen in Black\u201d star also discussed his childhood, saying he was brought back to being \u201cthe little boy that watched his father beat up his mother, all of that bubbled up in that moment. That\u2019s not who I want to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smith also recalled how it felt to watch the scene with his young nephew.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s the sweetest little boy. He stayed up late to see his Uncle Will. We are sitting in the kitchen, he\u2019s on my lap holding the Oscar, [and he asked] \u2018why did you hit that man, Uncle Will?\u2019\u201d he recalled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy you trying to Oprah me?\u201d the actor remembered thinking. \u201cI was like, it was a mess. I don\u2019t want to go too far into it to give people more to misunderstand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Noah attempted to stick up for Smith by saying \u201ceverybody can make a mistake,\u201d the actor got emotional and said, \u201cI understand how shocking it was to people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/will-smith-says-he-totally-understands-and-respects-if-people-arent-ready-to-see-his-new-film\">Smith told Variety<\/a> that he understands if people don\u2019t want to see his new movie, \u201cEmancipation,\u201d but hopes it won\u2019t affect the rest of the cast and crew.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI completely understand that, if someone is not ready, I would absolutely respect that and allow them their space to not be ready,\u201d Smith said. \u201cMy deepest concern is my team \u2013 [director Antoine Fuqua] has done what I think is the greatest work of his entire career.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m hoping that the material \u2013 the power of the film, the timeliness of the story \u2013 I\u2019m hoping that the good that can be done would open people\u2019s hearts at a minimum to see and recognize and support the incredible artists in and around this film,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Will Smith, 54, spoke with Trevor Noah on \u201cThe Daily Show\u201d Monday, blaming his violent outburst against Chris Rock on an underlying \u201crage\u201d that had been festering for some time.\u00a0 \u201cI was gone, dude,\u201d Smith told Noah about the incident, according to Variety. \u201cThat was a rage that had been bottled for a really &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1754741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1754737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754737","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\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1754737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1754741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1754737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1754737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1754737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}