Will Smith’s reasoning for rejecting a movie role is coming back to haunt him, as social media users refuse to forget the actor’s infamous Oscar-night slap.

In 2016, Smith took part in The Hollywood Reporter’s star-studded Actor Oscar Roundtable alongside Mark Ruffalo, Benicio Del Toro, Joel Edgerton, Samuel L. Jackson, and Michael Cain.

The conversation featured Smith, 56, explaining why he passed on an opportunity to portray the titular role in filmmaker Quentin Tarantino’s 2012 classic “Django Unchained” motion picture, alongside Jackson.

“I had said yes to ‘Django.’ But it was more about the creative direction of the story,” Smith told his fellow Hollywood leading men. “We sat for hours and hours and hours about it. I wanted to make that movie so badly.”

The Philadelphia native con

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