After everything that’s happened between Will Smith and Chris Rock since the Oscars slap ‘around the world, Whoopi Goldberg would still love to see them team up for a future on-screen project.
Whoopi’s thoughts came during Monday’s episode of “The View,” when the hosts discussed Chris Rock’s new Netflix special, which aired live-streamed Saturday night. In it, Rock vented on Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, finally giving his honest thoughts on the slap. Whoopi admitted that she was unable to watch it all, as she was performing her own comedy, but noted that “there is little Chris Rock that I don’t appreciate.”
The moderator of “The View” also argued that, in reality, “this situation is never going to find a good way to calm down,” even for the long term, because “there is no justification for what happened.” That said, she hopes for a collaborative future between Smith and Rock.
“There’s no way to justify this, you can’t have any apologies, it’s just going to be ‘time will tell’.” That’s the way it goes,” said Whoopi. “So, you know, I don’t know if they’ll run towards each other, but, you know, I’d still like to see them in a movie together. ‘Cause I think they’d be funny as hell! But that’s me.
Meanwhile, Whoopi’s co-hosts all agreed that The Rock got the last laugh by airing his thoughts on the situation in a Netflix special and making millions of dollars for it. Host Ana Navarro applauded Rock for listening to Will Smith’s opening order at the Oscars, when he told Rock to “keep my wife’s name out of your f—ing mouth!”
“He called her all kinds of other things, but she didn’t say much!” Navarro joked.
In the special itself, Rock commented that the slap had nothing to do with him, but rather that it came from Smith’s frustration over his relationship with his wife, recalling their “confused” state. Which was aired by the couple on the “Red Table”. talk.”
“Will Smith practices selective outrage. Everyone who really knows knows I had nothing to do with it. I didn’t have any complicity,” Rock said in the special. “I don’t normally talk about this s-s, but for some reason these n-s put it on the internet. It hurt him more than it hurt me.
You can watch the full segment from “The View” in the video Here,