Terry Crews Says Chris Rock ‘Saved Hollywood’ By Keeping Calm After Will Smith’s Oscars Slap

Terry Crews Says Chris Rock ‘Saved Hollywood’ By Keeping Composure After Will Smith’s Oscars Slap

Terry Crews is the latest celebrity to weigh in on the Will Smith and Chris Rock altercation. While speaking with the The Hollywood Reporter, Crews expressed that he didn’t want to pick sides between his two friends, but he did praise Chris Rock’s composure in the moment and declining to “demonize”Smith. 

“Both Will Smith and Chris Rock are dear, dear friends of mine,” he expressed to the reporter in the story published Friday.

“I love them both as brothers, but there was a time in my life [where] I was Will Smith at that moment, and let me tell you, I’ve done worse than Will.” “Way overkill, just … the punishment did not fit the crime. Like, people were like, ‘What in the world are you doing?’ My wife even had to be like, ‘You got to promise me you will never go off like this.”

 

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He continued, “You did not need to pick this man up and put him on his head, on the concrete.”

He went as far as to say that Rock, 57, “saved Hollywood” with his potential to keep his calmness during the live broadcast after Smith, 53, slapped him across the face in front of millions of people. 

“When I look back, by what Chris did, by just deciding to hold everything together, it actually, I think in a lot of ways saved Hollywood,” Crews explained to THR.

“Because if there would’ve been a brawl on that stage, I don’t know if Hollywood would’ve ever gotten any respect again, you know? It’s hard to even imagine what would’ve happened.”