Chris Rock’s Brother Kenny Says Will Smith Needs To Be Stripped Of His Oscar Over The Slap: “It Eats At Me Watching It Over And Over Again”
Chris Rock’s brothers are standing by his side! Just days after Tony Rock called out Will Smith for smacking the Oscars host on national TV, Chris’ other brother Kenny is speaking out to do the same.
While speaking with the LA Times, Kenny explained that he would like to see Will Smith stripped of his new best actor Oscar: “It eats at me watching it over and over again because you’ve seen a loved one being attacked and there’s nothing you can do about it,” Kenny Rock told the outlet. “Every time I’m watching the videos, it’s like a rendition that just keeps going over and over in my head.”
Kenny Rock said although his brother’s GI Jane joke about Will’s wife Jada Pinkett Smith was funny to him, he said his brother didn’t know about her medical condition and told the Times he would like to see the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences take back the best actor Oscar Smith won that night for his performance in “King Richard.”: “The joke was funny,” Kenny Rock said. “It wasn’t hilarious funny, but I know that if he knew that she had alopecia … he wouldn’t make a joke about that. But he didn’t know.”
Kenny adds that he does not accept Smith’s apology and, to his knowledge, Smith has not personally reached out to him or any one else in his family: “No, I don’t accept it because I don’t think it was genuine,” Kenny Rock said. “I think his publicist and the people that work under him probably advised him to do that.”
As we previously reported, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and Smith’s peers have condemned his actions. Smith has apologized to Rock while Rock said during a recent stand-up show in Boston that he is still processing what happened.
Following his public apology, Smith announced his resignation from the Academy on Friday as the academy conducts a formal review of the incident.
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