The Fresh Prince has battled everything in his movies, from ravenous zombies in I am Legend, to murderous machines in I, Robot. But in real life, his latest nemesis is an eight-legged nightmare.
Over the weekend, the veteran actor made his official return to social media nearly five months after slapping Chris Rock onstage at the Academy Awards and getting banned from the ceremony for 10 years.
His latest Instagram and TikTok video shows the Oscar winner
and his eldest son, Trey, cautiously attempting to remove a tarantula from
their family home.
“Posting this from a Holiday Inn,” Smith jokingly captioned
the clip, which has racked up 4.5 million views on TikTok and more than 930,000
likes on Instagram since Saturday.
In the one-minute video, Smith can be heard saying, “What
the whole hell? That is a big ass spider,” while filming the furry arachnid
that Trey identifies as a tarantula.
From behind the camera, Smith later clarifies that he’s
standing “up on the chair” to avoid getting anywhere near the spider before
telling his 29-year-old son, “You gotta get that out of here.”
When Trey shoots him an incredulous look, Smith teases,
“Come on, you’re young and strong. You can handle a bite.”
Finally, Trey manages to trap the creepy-crawly under a
glass jar, and Smith shrieks while sliding a piece of paper between the
eight-legged creature and the hardwood floor.
“That’s the biggest spider we’ve ever seen in our lives,”
Trey says.
“We’re selling the house,” Smith jokes.
The tarantula video comes a day after Smith tested the
Instagram waters by sharing a clip of a baby gorilla poking an adult gorilla
that swats at it with the caption, “Me trying to get back on social media.”
The “King Richard” star has come under scrutiny since the
Oscars incident, which he apologized for while “condemning violence in all of
its forms” back in April. Since then, Smith has kept relatively quiet on the
internet — except for a single video in July in which he addressed the
situation in depth and apologized again.
"Disappointing people is my central trauma. I hate when
I let people down. So it hurts,” he said last month.
“It hurts me psychologically and emotionally to know I
didn’t live up to people’s image and impression of me. ... I’m trying to be
remorseful without being ashamed of myself. ... I know it was confusing. I know
it was shocking. But I promise you, I am deeply devoted and committed to
putting light and love and joy into the world.”
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