Martin Lawrence on Will Smith's slap: Chris Rock didn't deserve that | The VC Show

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't mention your relationship with Will Smith and as we complete the interview we'd love to talk about that because watching you bad guys it's been amazing to watch The Journey um what's been your favorite and how. Do you think the relationship and the series have grown? Which has been my favorite? It's hard to say which one is my favorite. Maybe I have to say it, although Bad Boys for Life is the number three gross, the most money. I could say my favorite. one was probably around number two or one, I would probably say one or two, maybe two, maybe two, but um, but but that's it, then the next thing is what the relationship was like working together throughout the movie and in what's different maybe from that, you know. other situations that you have been in what makes him stand out as a partner in a film may well stand out as a partner is that he is very aware he is very focused he is very focused he comes to get his job done, he is very attentive, you know, it's very smart, he's very good at what he does, you know his craft and, uh, uh, he's just a special person to be around and you can learn a lot from him when you're around him, what? did you learn now he's a guy that yeah that's what I'm saying he's a guy like what do you like he's a guy that sometimes is more liberal advertising it's like this is what you're going to give me and I'm going to play To hell with this role and you follow me and say no, what, no, what's your approach, no, no, we don't do that, we just go over what are the lines that we have on the paper or whatever, we'll cut it.

We'll read it a little bit and then we might start playing with it, playing with it, yeah, before we bring it to the camera, you know, we're reading each other, we're reading each other and then he can say, he can say. something then I'll go back to something then we'll go okay, yeah, we're going to use that, we're going to use that when he was a kid. I remember there was a whole list of

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s that I liked to watch and that included Martin, it also included The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and you know, that was 20 years ago, that's 15, I don't even know how many years ago, but the times were different, what was it like then to see two young black men having their own hit sitcoms take over America and were they aware of Will at that time?

Did you all know each other or was it just oh yeah, no? I was aware of them, I was aware of them, I knew he was on the other side. of the city doing their thing and while I was there you know we were on the other side of the city doing our thing so it was actually the best moment in one of the best moments of time for us because you know we were

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s popular and everyone wanted to come visit us and see these shows and hang out there and they loved us, they loved us, you felt that love and you know Will is a period of legend, but when you saw the flesh that Came from two of your comic brothers, get on stage, obviously, between him and Chris, walk around, what's your response and how do you feel now that we've all had time to grow up, get away from it and move on, what's your reaction?

To all that, as you evaluate that, well, it hurt me, you know, to see that happen, you know, because I know they're both my brothers and stuff, and when it happened, you know, I texted them both afterwards. It happened, you know, just to see how they were doing and everything, but, you know, just an unfortunate situation and, you know, Will wasn't in the right place that night and Chris Rock

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that, so. It was such an unfortunate, unfortunate situation, well, and then I saw a comment that you made know, of course, everyone was asking about obviously bad guys and you said that you know it doesn't affect, you know that he's your brother, I mean, and you know it.

He plans to potentially do four bad guys and bad guys again potentially and you'll work with him, you know? And I thought it would be cool if you showed support for him and still understood, yeah, he made a mistake, he was on his own, you know? He was wrong, he recognized it and he still had people's support because at the end of the day he needed some love from his friends to get him out of the dark place he was in, yeah, and I thought that was it. great moment, the thing is, they both need to love, they both need to love, yeah, you know, and then, and then, you know, it's like they're brothers fighting and you don't want to see your brother fighting and stuff, you know, but not Chris Rock.

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that at all, you know, and so you know, like I said, it's just an unfortunate situation and we have to be more aware of how we treat each other and the respect that we have for each other as black people. black men and women you know because we are all we have we are all we have and you know to move forward in this life we ​​need each other we need each other's strength we need each other's wisdom and we need each other's blessings one