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WILL SMITH'S CAREER SUFFERS YET ANOTHER BLOW AFTER OSCARS SLAP
By KATHLEEN WALSH, NICKI SWIFT
Will we ever fully recover from Will Smith slapping Chris Rock in the face at the 2022 Oscars? In the weeks since the show, Smith's career seems to have been in a free fall, and even after releasing several apologies and resigning from the Academy, several of Smith's projects have taken a hit.
National Geographic has decided to pump the brakes on a nature show called "Pole to Pole," which was supposed to follow Smith as he visited the North and South Poles. The show was supposed to start filming in a matter of weeks, but has now been delayed until Fall 2022.
Netflix has also canceled the sequel to the 2017 urban fantasy film "Bright," which stars Smith as a human cop partnered with an orc "in an LA rife with interspecies tensions." Things are obviously not going fantastic for Smith at the moment, but Whoopi Goldberg, for one, believes his career will bounce back.
While the fate of Smith's career hangs in limbo, there's one person who continues moving forward — the recipient of The Slap, Chris Rock. Rock has continued his comedy tour as planned and has sold out entire shows, though he's barely touched the topic of the Oscars.