Chris Rock publicly confirmed this week that, after the notorious slap from Will Smith a minimum of 12 months’s Oscars, he turned down a proposal from AMPAS to host subsequent 12 months’s present.
The Academy didn’t reply to a request for remark.
Deadline first reported the provide, and Rock’s refusal thereof, in June. The comic has hosted the occasion twice, in 2005 and 2016.
Rock made the general public assertion at Arizona Monetary Theatre in downtown Phoenix final evening. He additionally mentioned he had been provided a Tremendous Bowl business, however declined that as properly.
Based on the Arizona Republic, Rock joked that internet hosting the Oscars subsequent 12 months can be like asking Nicole Brown Simpson “to return to the restaurant.”
“He’s larger than me,” Rock mentioned of Smith. “The state of Nevada wouldn’t sanction a combat between me and Will Smith.”
Rock mentioned at a Madison Sq. Backyard present in June that he shook Smith’s blow off almost as quickly because it occurred.
He mentioned, “I’m not a sufferer. Yeah, that sh*t harm, motherf*cker. However I shook that sh*t off and went to work the subsequent day. I don’t go to the hospital for a paper lower.”
