A week after Will Smith famously strode on stage and slapped Chris Rock as Rock was presenting at the Academy Awards, questions still remain about the incident and its aftermath.
Here are just a few of them:Will Smith's careerFrom a family-friendly rapper to a sitcom star on"The Fresh Prince of Bel AIr" and later a box office giant, Smith has built his career on being a likeable on screen and off.Which is one of the reasons many initially hailed him for being his wife's"protector" when he hit Rock after the comic and actor made a joke from the Oscars stage about Jada Pinkett Smith's close-cropped hair.
During a comedy show for his"Ego Death Tour" at Boston's Wilbur Theater, he briefly addressed the slap."I don't have a bunch of s*** about what happened, so if you came to hear that, I had like a whole show I wrote before this weekend," Rock said."And I'm still kind of processing what happened, so at some point I'll talk about that s***. And it'll be serious and it'll be funny, but right now I'm going to tell some jokes.
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