The organization that puts on the Academy Awards is stressing that the slap heard ‘round the world wasn’t scripted.
Hours after Will Smith jumped onto the Oscars stage and slapped Chris Rock over a joke about wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s baldness, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences insisted that the viral moment was not planned and also not OK.
“The Academy does not condone violence of any form,” the group said in a statement early Monday morning.
