Zoë Kravitz didn’t forgive him. Jim Carrey really didn’t forgive him. It’s no surprise, then, that Chris Rock’s own brother isn’t letting Will Smith off lightly.
In a new interview with The Los Angeles Times, Kenny Rock discussed how the infamous slap has continued to affect him since it happened. “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,” he said.
After the Oscars, Smith apologised on social media for his actions and resigned from the Academy. That’s not enough for Kenny though. “I might have looked at it differently had he initially apologised when he got on the stage and cried and accepted the award, but he didn’t, so, right there that tells me that it is something else,” he said.
That’s why Kenny, one of Chris’s six siblings, has refused to accept Smith’s apology. “I don’t think it was genuine,” he insisted. “I think his publicist and the people that work under him probably advised him to do that.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Kenny also called for the Academy to take back the Oscar Smith received for King Richard, as well as bar him from attending any future Oscars ceremonies.
He also said he doesn’t believe that Chris knew about Jada Pinkett Smith’s alopecia. “The joke was funny,” he said. “It wasn’t hilarious funny, but I know that if he knew that she had alopecia… he wouldn’t have made a joke about that. But he didn’t know.”
For Smith, the comments of one of Chris Rock’s brothers is the least of his problems. Netflix has reportedly backed out of a project with the actor, putting a film called Fast and Loose on the back burner.
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