Kevin Hart Says Will Smith Is Apologetic, ‘In a Better Place,’ After Oscars Slap

Since the 2022 Oscars and the “slap heard ’round the world,” it has been almost four months. Will Smith’s close friend Kevin Hart is currently asking questions about the actor’s health and how his life has changed.

Hart spoke with ET’s Rachel Smith at the Los Angeles premiere of his new animated film DC League of Super-Pets on Wednesday, and the comedian addressed the beef between Smith and Chris Rock, which he has also joked about in his stand-up routine while on his ongoing Reality Check Tour.

“Will is regretful, you know, he’s in a superior space, obviously, than the thing he was pursuing,” Hart shared. “Individuals are human and as people once in a while we commit errors. So there’s no need to focus on discussing the past, it’s tied in with recognizing the present and putting forth a valiant effort to push ahead.”

“I can get just expectation that both of them figure out how to discover a few comfort in that and move past it,” proceeded with Hart. “I very much like great energy. I love to see individuals be awesome.”

“I actually love him, I actually love Chris, and, you know, you can’t pass judgment on an individual by a certain something,” he added. “Eventually, life continues and individuals develop, so offer him the chance to do as such.”

Aside from Smith and Rock, the praised comic likewise considers Dwayne Johnson as a real part of his unit of well-known companions, and DC League of Super-Pets denotes their fifth big-screen coordinated effort after Central Intelligence, Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle, Jumanji: The Next Level and Hart’s appearance in Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw.

“I must tell the truth, we have an extraordinary relationship on-screen and off-screen, and things that don’t simply occur, correct? It’s something that you most certainly need to understand, similar to, how exceptional it is. Since it doesn’t need to be like this. Normally, you don’t have the connections on-screen and off at this size,” Hart said of his association with Johnson.

“So I like the way that we get along, I love that we answer the material that has been introduced to us, and I like actually observing ways of being imaginative,” Hart added.

In the enlivened film, Hart stars as Ace, a Boxer canine saturated with immunity who has a place with Batman (voiced by Keanu Reeves). He’s dear companions with Superman’s (John Krasinski) reliable Kryptonian-conceived Labrador Retriever Krypto, voiced by Johnson.

DC League of Super-Pets – – which likewise includes the voice abilities of Olivia Wilde, Kate McKinnon, Vanessa Bayer, Natasha Lyonne, Diego Luna, Marc Maron, Jameela Jamil, Daveed Diggs, and Jermaine Clement – – flies into theaters July 29.