Jada Pinkett Smith Oh So Vaguely Addresses Chris Rock’s Oscars Diss

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Jada Pinkett Smith boycotted the Oscars. But did she watch? Well, she’s at least familiar with the joke Chris Rock made at her expense during his monologue.


At the airport on Saturday, Smith was asked about the joke and responded, ever so vaguely:

“It comes with the territory, sweetheart,” she said, before asking the photographers to get out of her way. “Hey look, it comes with the territory but we gotta keep it moving. We gotta keep it moving. We gotta keep it moving. There’s a lot of stuff we gotta handle, a lot of stuff in our world right now. We gotta keep it moving.”

Smith decided to boycott this year’s Oscars after The Academy failed, for the second year in a row, to nominate any actors of color for awards. During the ceremony, host Chris Rock joked that, “Jada boycotting the Oscars is like me boycotting Rihanna’s panties. I wasn’t invited!”