Will Smith was known as out on-line after a 2016 interview about rejecting Django Unchained over violence resurfaced.
Will Smith discovered himself again within the scorching seat Wednesday (August 13) after a 2016 interview clip resurfaced on-line, racking up greater than eight million views in a single day and reigniting debate over his previous and current views on violence.
Within the viral throwback, initially recorded by The Hollywood Reporter, Smith defined why he handed on the lead function in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, citing a conflict in imaginative and prescient with the director.
Whereas he was initially on board, Smith mentioned the movie’s concentrate on revenge didn’t sit proper with him.
“We sat for hours and hours and hours about it. I like it, I needed to make that film so badly, however with that story, I felt the one method I might make that film is it needed to be a love story, not a vengeance story,” Smith mentioned within the clip.
“I don’t consider in violence because the response to violence,” he added. “It must be for love… violence begets violence.”
Will Smith on turning down DJANGO UNCHAINED: “For me I simply could not hook up with violence being the reply.” pic.twitter.com/xlPllvpka7
— Todd Spence (@Todd_Spence) August 13, 2025
That stance didn’t age effectively within the eyes of many on-line, particularly after Smith’s now-infamous slap on the 94th Academy Awards.
Social media customers wasted no time declaring the contradiction between his anti-violence feedback and his onstage assault of Chris Rock throughout the 2022 Oscars.
One consumer wrote, “‘…and that’s once I determined to slap the s### out of Chris Rock.’” One other chimed in, “He can smack a n#### publicly however he can’t kill a slavemaster.”
A 3rd added, “This bums me out as a result of I believe he was in the correct for slapping Chris Rock and I want he utilized that very same logic in the direction of revolution.”
Will Smith Says “Love Will Make You Do Loopy Issues” After Oscars Slap
The slap, which occurred throughout Rock’s presentation for Finest Documentary Function, was in response to a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head, a results of her alopecia analysis.
Smith went on to win Finest Actor for King Richard later that night time.
Satirically, throughout his acceptance speech, Smith mentioned, “Love will make you do loopy issues.”
The unique Django Unchained function finally went to Jamie Foxx, who starred alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Christoph Waltz within the 2012 movie
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