Will Smith is understood finest for his TV collection The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and his motion film profession that features movies like Independence Day, Bad Boys, and Men In Black. But the actor got here very shut to turning down the function of Jay in Men In Black, as a result of it got here to him only a 12 months after making Independence Day, and he didn’t need to pigeon-hole himself into two again to again alien invasion films. It seems that each one it took for him to rethink was an invite to the house of Steven Spielberg, who executive-produced the movie.
In a latest sit down with actor Kevin Hart on Peacock’s Hart to Heart, Smith defined his trepidation in shifting ahead with the movie, saying:
“I kinda understood Men in Black like a little bit, but I didn’t want to make Men in Black — that was the next year after Independence Day. So I didn’t want to make two alien movies back to back.”
He went on to clarify what turned him round:
“Steven Spielberg despatched a helicopter for me. I used to be in New York. To speak. It landed at his home. And he had me at ‘Hello.’”
After laughing about the encounter, he went on:
“He [Spielberg] said, ‘Tell me why you don’t need to make my film….’ He put the ellipses on the finish. If he had continued, he would have mentioned, ‘Joker, you know I made Jaws, right? You know I made E.T.‘”
Needless to say, it didn’t take a lot when it got here to convincing, coming from one of many biggest filmmakers of all time! Smith, after all, went on to star in Men in Black and two of its sequels, which reside on as fan-favorites.
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