Will Smith has spoken about his shock after a co-star in his latest movie Emancipation spat on him throughout an ad-libbed scene.
Smith mirrored on the expertise throughout a dialog on Red Table Talk this week alongside his three youngsters, Willow, Jaden and Trey Smith. (His spouse, Jada Pinkett Smith, normally co-hosts the present alongside her mom, Adrienne Banfield-Norris, and Willow.)
The Oscar-winner admitted that the ad-libbed scene from Emancipation, which follows a person escaping slavery, left him puzzled.
“As the years have gone on, I’ve gotten more and more locked into these characters for longer periods of time,” he stated. “And it’s just the weight of this story, the weight of these experiences — the quality of these actors. It was emotionally, it was physically, it was spiritually taxing.”
He continued: “One of the first days on set, there is a scene with one of the actors, and he leans down in my face and says, ‘You a cold one, ain’t you?’ and then he ad-libbed…”
After re-enacting the spitting, all three of his youngsters burst into laughter.
“I was like, ‘Makeup!’” Smith recalled. “No, but it was like … I was like, ‘Whoa’. Every actor on this set was taking it really, really seriously.”
Released on December 9, Emancipation tells the story of a slave named Peter (performed by Smith) who embarks on a journey to realize his freedom following the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. The movie is impressed by the well-known 1863 picture of “Whipped Peter,” an enslaved man who joined the Union Army in hopes of being reunited together with his household.
The film marks Smith’s first starring position following his notorious slap of Chris Rock on the 2022 Oscars in March. The incident led to Smith being barred from the Academy and its occasions for 10 years.
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After taking just a few months off, the previous Fresh Prince star returned in with an apology video in July addressing the incident.
“Disappointing people is my central trauma,” he stated within the virtually six-minute clip. “I hate when I let people down. It hurts me psychologically and emotionally to know I didn’t live up to people’s image and impression of me.”
He continued: “I made a mistake, and I’m trying not to think of myself as a piece of shit, so I would say to those people, 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. If you hang on, I promise we’ll be able to be friends again.”
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