Was Will Smith’s Oscars slap of Chris Rock staged to promote Pfizer’s hair loss drug currently in late clinical trials?
Was Will Smith’s Oscars slap of Chris Rock staged to promote Pfizer’s hair loss drug currently in late clinical trials?
Smith claims he retaliated against Rock’s insulting Smith’s wife Jada Pinkett’s alopecia areata (autoimmune hair loss)
Looks like a decent possibility it was staged.
From the August 2021 article Pfizer's ritlecitinib hits goal in alopecia phase 3, setting up showdown with Lilly:
[Academy Awards sponsor] Pfizer plans to combine the phase 2b/3 data with results from an ongoing long-term study to file for approval of ritlecitinib. The Big Pharma company has identified ritlecitinib as one of nine potential blockbusters it aims to launch by 2025.
As Pfizer sees it, ritlecitinib could rack up sales of more than $1 billion in alopecia [hair loss] alone. The drug is also in development in vitiligo, rheumatoid arthritis, ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. Pfizer is up against more competitors in some of those indications but has been encouraged by midphase data generated to date.
Rock leaned in toward Smith and grimaced in apparent knowing anticipation of the slap.
(h/t: JD Rucker and Midwestern Doctor)
Police and Oscars security didn’t do anything.
It wasn't staged, but the response was. Shameful will Smith sounded like any western dictator, blaming the victim for their abuse.
Chris Rock was a coward for not taking a tumble. He was afraid of the narcissists that pay his checks, but he could have won money and made will Smith into a felon by not being tough
Don't buy it. It has ruined Will Smiths brand.