Dave Chappelle supports Will Smith's comeback despite slamming him over Oscars slap - Daily Mail

Dave Chappelle has supported Will Smith's comeback pursuing his Oscars slap - little than 2 months aft branding him 'just arsenic disfigured arsenic the remainder of us' successful the aftermath of the incident.

The comedian, 49, proudly posed up with the Oscar-winning actor, 54, astatine an beforehand screening of his upcoming movie Emancipation connected Monday - contempt slamming him implicit slapping Chris Rock, 57, astatine the 2021 ceremony.

Chappelle and Smith joined a loved-up Rihanna and A$AP Rocky, film prima Tyler Perry and much to airs for the amusive snap.

Smith is trying to revive his vocation arsenic helium returns with his archetypal large task since helium shocked Academy Awards viewers earlier this twelvemonth erstwhile helium slapped Rock on signifier aft helium made an ill-advised gag astir his woman Jada Pinkett Smith.

Back successful September, Rock and Chappelle poked amusive astatine Smith's slap on the opening nighttime of their UK tour.

Dave said: 'Will did the content of a cleanable idiosyncratic for 30 years, and helium ripped his disguise disconnected and showed america helium was arsenic disfigured arsenic the remainder of us. 

'Whatever the consequences are… I anticipation helium doesn’t enactment his disguise backmost connected again, and lets his existent look breathe. I spot myself successful some men.' 

Chris antecedently declared: 'The motherf****r deed maine implicit a bulls**t joke, the nicest gag I ever told.' 

Independence Day prima Smith's on-stage slap sent shockwaves astir the world, with the prima aboriginal saying helium was left incensed by a gag Rock made astir his wife's deficiency of hair, which she shaved disconnected to screen up hairsbreadth nonaccomplishment she had experienced. 

Despite sweeping the Oscars up successful controversy, Smith inactive won the grant for Best Actor for starring arsenic the begetter of Venus and Serena Williams successful King Richard. 

Also joining successful the solemnisation was Black-ish creator Kenya Barris, on with euphony shaper Corey Smyth and Will's longtime friend Fawn Boardley, who has besides served arsenic a benignant manager for him and his woman Jada Pinkett Smith, 51, who didn't look to person attended the screening.

The movie appeared to person sparked immoderate heavy conversations among the group, arsenic a follow-up photograph should Chappelle lasting with his backmost to the surface arsenic helium spoke to the different members of the audience.

Smith's latest movie is simply a humanities thriller directed by Antoine Fuqua, successful which the Fresh Prince histrion stars arsenic an enslaved antheral named Peter who escapes from a Louisiana plantation and braves treacherous territory and enslaved hunters to marque it up northbound to Union territory, wherever helium is capable to articulation the combat against the Confederacy.

The movie was inspired by the beingness of a erstwhile enslaved immortalized successful horrifying photos of his back, which was covered successful spiderwebbing keloid scars from repeated whippings.

Following the shocking slap, Variety originally reported that Apple planned to hold the movie until 2023 to fto the contention dice down.

However, it is present acceptable for a December 2 merchandise successful theaters, followed by a streaming merchandise connected Apple TV+ connected December 9.

The streaming work whitethorn person inactive fixed up its plans of having a deed for awards season, arsenic the movie whitethorn suffer retired connected imaginable profits owed to the abbreviated theatrical window.