"One Of The Biggest Laughs": Bad Boys 4 Ending's Will Smith Slap & Viewers' Reaction Addressed By Directors

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SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Summary Bad Boys: Ride or Die directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah have addressed the ending's Will Smith slap, while also responding to viewer reactions to the surprising moment. Near the end of Bad Boys: Ride or Die during its climactic action scene, Smith's Mike Lowery freezes up, making it unclear if he'll be able to fight his way through the enemies ahead of him.

Speaking with Variety, El Arbi and Fallah explained what it was like to have a reference to Smith's slap incident in Bad Boys: Ride or Die, while also addressing audience reactions to the moment. The directors explained how the moment wasn't rehearsed, and although they were wary of including it, the scene ultimately paid off in the end. Check out what El Arbi and Fallah had to say below:

Fallah: Will is coming with this idea; he made this movie really personal. Will was really engaged from the first second that we started pre-production until the last day of the edit. When we were shooting that moment, the sun was going down and we were like, “We didn’t finish the scene,” so that was really almost a freestyle moment.... that was not on the page. That was in the moment.Fallah: We all thought it was funny. That’s really what we were going for.

El Arbi: It felt like a big release, for some reason. Like there was some kind of tension and then a release, and the audience laughed and enjoyed that moment. You’re never 100% sure, up until you test it, how they’re gonna react. The fact that, in the test screenings, it was one of the biggest laughs you could have, we felt like, “Okay, we did the right thing.” It worked out, and it was important for that moment, for the movie and for Will.

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