During an appearance on Dana Carvey and David Spade’s “Fly on the Wall” podcast, the Comedians Getting Coffee in Cars host Jerry Seinfeld revealed he wanted to reenact Will Smith and Chris Rock’s infamous Oscars slap in his new movie Unfrosted.
“Chris Rock was going to be the emcee of the Bowl & Spoon Awards,” the Seinfeld star, 70, shared, referring to a fictional awards show in the Netflix film. “And we shot that right after the Will Smith slap.”
“I was going to have somebody come up on the stage and have Chris punch ’em out as they got there,” he explained.
However, since the scene was going to be filmed not long after the actual incident went down — in which the Miami crooner, 55, slapped Rock, 59, at the 2022 Oscars for making a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head – Rock “wasn’t up to perform.”
“He was a little shook from that event,” he noted.
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In the end, Cedric the Entertainer, 60, took on the role he envisioned for Rock.
Though things didn’t pan out the way Seinfeld first envisioned, he asked Carvey, 68, and Spade, 59, for their thoughts on his original idea.
“Without the Will Smith thing, I think it’s funny. There’s still kind of a residual darkness around that moment,” Carvey replied.
Seinfeld admitted he’s not sure “if it would have worked” anyway.
In other news, Jerry Seinfeld is making amends with Howard Stern after he dissed his comedic skills.
“I really feel bad for what I said about my friend Howard Stern in a conversation with Dave Spade and Dana Carvey, talking about the glut of comedy podcasts. I meant to say he must feel surrounded but I said ‘outflanked’ which sounded terrible and insulting,” Seinfeld said in a statement to People.
The actor continued, “And of course, none of these little shows are any threat to his giant show. Anyway, it was bad and I’m sorry, Howie. I still love you. Please forgive me.”