Marlon Wayans Is Confident Will Smith & Chris Rock Will Make Amends & Says: ‘Will’s Going Through Something’
Fellow actor and comedian Marlon Wayans is jumping in on the Will Smith and Chris Rock Oscars slap convo and is confident that the two friends will make amends, noting, “Will’s going through something.”
Catching up with Marlon — who says he’s been friends with Chris since he was 14 and Will since he was 20 — tells People magazine, “Will has been such a classic dude, and I love them both.” Marlon continues, “Chris Rock, he’s always Chris Rock; you’ve got to expect that from Chris Rock. And sometimes when you’re best friends, worst things happen and I wish it didn’t happen. … [I] hope they seek out and work it out.”
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But from a comedian’s point of view, Marlon argues, “You’ve got to be able to crack jokes. You don’t know what somebody’s going through … he cracked the wrong joke on the wrong day. And sometimes you hit the wrong person in the wrong moment. … It was just bad timing.” But like the rest of the world, Marlon agrees that that the two should “sit down and talk about it.” He adds, “They definitely will [make amends], because from Chris there’s no beef at all, what’s in his heart. That was actually a light joke. Very light. So, I mean, obviously Will’s going through something. Sometimes worst things happen on the best day, and this is one of those examples.”
Marlon also says that in his community, “We all respect each other as artists, as individuals, as Black men, as men in general, and this is not the way we conduct ourselves. A room full of love in our community. We all respect each other as artists, as individuals, as Black men, as men in general, and this is not the way we conduct ourselves, fellas, and we get better. That’s all. You can have mistakes sometimes. Mistakes, that’s the best thing to have because moving forward we know that’s never going to happen again.”
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