Katt Williams’ ’72 Hours’ cameo hints his Kevin Hart truce started before fans knew

Williams’ surprise appearance in Hart’s Netflix comedy suggests the comedians may have repaired their relationship before their public reunion at Hart’s Netflix roast.

Katt Williams’ surprise appearance in Kevin Hart’s new Netflix comedy, “72 Hours,” offers a timeline twist to their public feud. The Katt Williams 72 Hours cameo arrived after theGrio covered their public truce at Hart’s Netflix roast.

Netflix released the film July 24 and shared an official clip of the scene. Hart plays Joe, a 40-year-old advertising executive who accidentally joins a group of younger men for a Miami bachelor party. Williams plays Mike, a jewelry-covered partygoer Joe encounters aboard a mega-yacht.

The joke immediately leans into their real-life history. Joe asks whether Mike has “beef” with him, and Mike confirms that he does. What follows is an exaggerated hallway fight involving slaps, wild swings and swordplay before Williams’ character gets the better of Joe.

The scene works as a ridiculous side quest inside the movie, but its timing makes it more interesting. Hart and Williams publicly appeared to end their feud during “The Roast of Kevin Hart” on May 10. Williams arrived as a surprise guest, roasted Hart and later embraced him after Hart offered an olive branch.

That reunion made the truce official for viewers. The movie suggests the private thaw happened earlier.

According to FilmiFeed, “72 Hours” was reportedly filmed from June through August 2025, nearly a year before the roast aired. The exact date Williams shot his scene has not been disclosed, so the cameo cannot prove when the comedians reconciled. Still, Williams agreeing to join the movie, joke directly about the beef and film a physical comedy sequence with Hart strongly suggests they were already on working terms before the public hug.

Their tension had stretched across years and intensified after Williams’ January 2024 “Club Shay Shay” interview, where he questioned Hart’s rise and called him an industry plant. Hart responded publicly, extending a rivalry that had already included disagreements over Tiffany Haddish and the comedy business.

The on-screen reunion turns that history into the punchline. Instead of pretending the feud never happened, the movie lets Williams and Hart stage an absurd version of it, complete with a literal fight and a playful performance that looks nothing like two people refusing to share a set.

Potentially, Williams’ cameo in “72 Hours” appears to reveal the sequence of events: the real fight cooled privately, the fake fight was filmed, and the roast later gave the reconciliation its public ending.