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Nope not a stunt. Would you consider a few things that inform my opinion and tell me where I am wrong?

If it were a stunt, it would need to have a writer, a writer who could have done so much more with it than what we saw. This was badly written and makes the woke-istas look bad. Actors are good at delivering lines but not at writing them. Chris Rock had no comeback really, though he tried. He can be funny but he is not like a Robin Williams, someone who can improvise instantly. He was genuinely surprised by Smith’s approach (or Rock has suddenly become a really good actor, better than any of his films). Smith is shown laughing at the joke just moments before. It is that “wife” who is NOT laughing. What did she say to Will Smith when the camera turned away?

Another evidence pointing toward my contention is that Smith uses profanity which a writer could never have gotten past the Academy.
“Keep my wife’s name out of your effing mouth!”
For it to be a stunt, one would have to believe that the writer, whoever it may be, wanted Smith to show outrage in this way and the actor is very convincingly delivering the line. It was Will Smith who wrote that line and delivered it for an audience of one, that woke, offended GI Jane to whom he is married. She is a typical feminist who still needs her man to stand up for her because she is too weak and cowardly to go up there and slap the man herself.

My final evidence is the “apology” by Smith later when he wins an “award”. Very amateurish apology for a writer to write about a stunt, but fine if it was actually sincere. He waited till next day to issue an apology to Rock though.
These are not the desired headlines for a planned stunt:
“Smith Apologizes to All Except Rock.”
“Slap Overshadows Oscar Win.”
“Is Will Smith’s apology after the Oscars slap enough?”

Maybe Ricky Gervais can school Rock on the rigid rules for insulting Hollywood actors. Maybe it was a publicity stunt, but the members of the Academy who were present at the meeting about it afterward certainly acted as if it was real and they talked around and around about “advocating” “condoning” “violence”. It is axiomatic that all publicity is good publicity, but a writer should have made the Academy look good and certainly should have made the King Richard movie look good.

Was this written by someone who did not look up that that woman has a condition, alopecia? Chris Rock thinks he is complimenting her! GI Jane was a Demi Moore movie where she shaves her head as part of Navy Seal training.

Correction and contradiction is heartily welcomed with my thanks!