”I hate being here, I want to go home!” – Jaden Smith in ‘The Karate Kid,’ and Hart felt similarly that night, it seems.
Kevin Hart confirms what many already suspected and a certain generation completely understood when he was caught looking thoroughly disinterested in April while standing next to Latto and Usher in a club.
Speaking to Complex’s Jaelani Turner-Williams, Hart acknowledges that the viral video “captured a genuine moment and expression.” The 44-year-old has no criticism for the club or the company he was with that night; it was just that time of the evening when he “was ready to call it a night.”
“Yeah, that’s true,” Hart responded when Turner-Williams suggested he probably would have preferred to be anywhere else in that moment. “It was a real moment. Both of them are fantastic people. Usher is a close friend of mine, and he told me we were going to a relaxed lounge atmosphere, which suits me fine. I’m okay with that.”
“But it turned out to be more of what I would call a club,” he continued. “So what you saw was just someone who has outgrown the nightlife and big party scenes. I was ready to head home.”
“And let me make this clear, it’s not a knock on the club at all,” Hart clarified. “I think the energy in clubs is great, and there’s a time and place where I can enjoy that or participate in that. During HartBeat Weekends, for instance, when we have artists performing, it’s part of the event. But it’s not something I do regularly at this stage of my life.”
Hart admitted he dreads the idea of “looking like the old guy in the club” and finding himself in situations that remind him all too clearly of his age.
“My feаr is simply appearing as the old guy in the club,” he explained. “I never want people to look over and sаy, ‘Why is he here?’ That’s a bit much. ‘Oh God, see Kevin over there in the corner? What’s he doing here? It’s a night for 21- or 22-year-olds. Why did he come?’ Running into my kids’ friends from school, that’s just awkward. I’d rather avoid those situations. I’ll head home and be content.”