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Will Smith Spotted Filming in Ecuador After Oscars Scandal

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Olivia Bennett

Updated on February 07, 2026

Will Smith has gotten back to work. More than five months after he slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars, the 53-year-old performer was spotted shooting Disney+’s Welcome to Earth in Alausi, Ecuador.

Wearing a baseball cap and a yellow shirt, Smith enchanted neighborhood individuals when they spotted him shooting on La Nariz del Diablo, a remarkable rail in the country.

In the center between shots for the second season of the National Geographic series, which Smith in like manner depicts, the performer was seen emulating pantomiming blowing kisses to collected fans.

In July, four months after the now-famous Oscars slap, Smith finished his quietness in a significantly confidential video message. In the video, Smith apologized to Rock and the comedian’s family, as well as his own friends and family.

He in like manner said that he had reached Rock, nonetheless “the message that returned” was that the comedian was not ready to talk and would associate when he is.

“Chris has no plans to interface with Will,” a source told ET by and by. The source moreover acknowledges that the preparation of the propitiatory feeling is something different for Will’s prosperity. “He truly needs general society’s absolving, not Chris’.”


The next month, a source told ET that Smith “is feeling significantly more certain and extensively more great and less deterred” resulting to posting his demeanor of regret video.

“He was in very dejection prior to revealing his demeanor of regret,” the source said of Smith. “He feels less humiliated now and more open to being getting out and about in open again considering the way that he has and continues to achieve the work that ought to be done for himself, his soul mate, his family, his colleagues, his accomplices, his fans, The Academy, Chris and Chris’ friends and family.”

The source added that Smith thinks it is essential to “ingrain the likelihood that hostility is never the reaction and show the public that he was misguided and is contrite, but that all people commit mistakes and that we are human, no matter what the calling you could have.”