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Will Smith Gets Slapped in Bad Boys 4 in Apparent Nod to Oscars Incident
Will Smith is slapped by costar Martin Lawrence during a 'Bad Boys: Ride or Die' scene in an apparent nod to the 2022 Oscars incident.
Nick Schager, critic for the Daily Beast, mentioned the moment in his review, calling it a "tasteless nod to The Slap meant to rehab Smith’s image." Schager said the "late meta joke about Smith’s Oscar scandal proves a predictable bit of self-consciousness and does less to enliven the proceedings than merely fulfill expectations." Directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, who also made 2020's Bad Boys for Life sequel, recently told UNILAD that the script was still changing in the aftermath of the Oscars slap and that real events shaped the story of the latest installment.
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