'King Richard' weighs in on Will Smith's slap of Chris Rock at the Oscars.
at the Oscars ceremony — and then won an Academy Award for playing him in the movie “King Richard.”
LeSane said his father was as surprised as anyone when Smith suddenly retaliated against Rock for making a joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, at the Sunday spectacle. “I look like the crazy father, just like they said about Richard Williams,” Smith said. “But love will make you do crazy things.”
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