{"id":23953,"date":"2024-04-11T11:46:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T11:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/11\/will-smith-to-address-the-elephant-in-the-room-ahead-of-comeback-cough-oscar-slapgate-cough\/"},"modified":"2024-04-11T11:46:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T11:46:02","slug":"will-smith-to-address-the-elephant-in-the-room-ahead-of-comeback-cough-oscar-slapgate-cough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/11\/will-smith-to-address-the-elephant-in-the-room-ahead-of-comeback-cough-oscar-slapgate-cough\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Smith To Address The &#8220;Elephant In The Room&#8221; Ahead Of Comeback (Cough Oscar Slapgate Cough)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"738\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2024-04\/6emi5kso_will-smith_625x300_11_April_24.jpeg?resize=1200,738&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Will Smith To Address The &#8220;Elephant In The Room&#8221; Ahead Of Comeback (Cough Oscar Slapgate Cough)\" title=\"Will Smith To Address The &#8220;Elephant In The Room&#8221; Ahead Of Comeback (Cough Oscar Slapgate Cough)\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"ins_storybody\"><!-- \n\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"sp-cn ins_storybody\" id=\"ins_storybody\">--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\">\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv_cont\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"ins_instory_dv_caption sp_b\">Will Smith pictured at an event. (Image courtesy: IANS)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hollywood star Will Smith says he will handle his infamous Oscars slap &#8220;head on&#8221; ahead of his Hollywood comeback with <i>Bad Boys: Ride or Die<\/i>. The 55-year-old actor stars alongside Martin Lawrence in the upcoming film and is preparing to embark on a big campaign ahead of the release.<\/p>\n<p><i>Bad Boys: Ride or Die<\/i> is the actor&#8217;s first big project since he slapped Chris Rock at the Academy Award in 2022. &#8220;This film is Will&#8217;s big comeback, and his team is going all out to get him out there,&#8221; a source told The Sun newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>The source shared that Smith plans to address the &#8220;elephant in the room&#8221; during the promotional campaign for the movie, reports femalefirst.co.uk.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He will deal head-on with the slap and how he has changed since then. It&#8217;s likely he will also speak about his marriage to Jada, after they secretly split up more than six years ago,&#8221; the source said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The slap is still a bit of an elephant in the room, and Will is going to tackle it head-on. He is booked to appear on a number of big US TV shows and will be an open book.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People love a redemption story, and Will has done a lot of work on himself. He also has a huge fan base who want him back in the thick of the action.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Will Smith had apologised to Rock for his behaviour at the Oscars.The actor in a statement had promised that he would make amends for his mistake.<\/p>\n<p><i>(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/entertainment\/will-smith-to-address-the-elephant-in-the-room-ahead-of-comeback-cough-oscar-slapgate-cough-5419352#publisher=newsstand\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Smith pictured at an event. (Image courtesy: IANS) Hollywood star Will Smith says he will handle his infamous Oscars slap &#8220;head on&#8221; ahead of his Hollywood comeback with Bad Boys: Ride or Die. The 55-year-old actor stars alongside Martin Lawrence in the upcoming film and is preparing to embark on a big campaign ahead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2024-04\/6emi5kso_will-smith_625x300_11_April_24.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[619],"tags":[3047,203,3513,29211,22945,29212,29210,7004,29213,8347,29208,29209],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23955,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23953\/revisions\/23955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}