It wasn't a gag - it was a real slap. Watch it in slow motion zoomed in. Chris Rock's face is rippling like a wave after getting hit: https://files.catbox.moe/l5n280.mp4
Of course it was a Real slap, but it was a skit...a great performance....Think of fight or flight...you have no control over that...he just stood there and even put his hands behind his back....Fake as can be...."They"needed something to bring focus to the lifeless Oscars....
It wasn't a gag - it was a real slap. Watch it in slow motion zoomed in. Chris Rock's face is rippling like a wave after getting hit: https://files.catbox.moe/l5n280.mp4
Of course it was a Real slap, but it was a skit...a great performance....Think of fight or flight...you have no control over that...he just stood there and even put his hands behind his back....Fake as can be...."They"needed something to bring focus to the lifeless Oscars....