“[He] doesn’t have a mean bone in his body,” a source told TMZ of Rock, whose “G.I. Jane” joke about Pinkett Smith was met with an onstage slap from Will Smith.
Will Smith smacked Rock, 57, for poking fun at his wife on Sunday night.
“Jada, I love you, ‘G.I. Jane 2,’ can’t wait to see it,” Rock quipped onstage as he prepared to present Best Documentary. Smith, 53, laughed off the remark at first, but once he saw Pinkett Smith’s furious reaction, the “King Richard” star became incensed himself and stormed the stage to accost Rock in defense of his spouse.
Once he returned to his seat, Smith repeatedly shouted at Rock, “Keep my wife’s name out of your f–king mouth!”A.M.P.A.S. via Getty ImagesGetty Images for Critics Choice Rock calmly responded, “That was the greatest night in the history of television” — and promised not to mention Pinkett Smith, 50, again.