A famous director called Smith “the sweetest person I’ve ever met”, an incident he did not take lightly.
Hollywood actor Will Smith is returning to the big screen after a scandal at the Oscars, where he slapped host Chris Rock. Starring in the movie Emancipation directed by Antoine Fuqua. Vanity Fair writes about it.
In the story, Smith’s character named Peter is a slave hunter. He is separated from his loved ones, but the character tries to escape from slavery to face the Union army in the middle of a civil war. By joining its ranks, he hopes to be reunited with his family.
“I will fight them. They beat me. They whip me. They break the bones in my chest more times than I can count, but they will never break me,” the hero said.
Fuqua noted that the film was made before Smith was embarrassed at the ceremony. But also admitted that his game is more important than “one bad moment.”
The director called Smith “the sweetest guy I’ve ever met.”
“Of course I want people to see the film. My conversation is always like, ‘Isn’t 400 years of slavery, brutality, more important than one bad moment?’ We’re in Hollywood and some really terrible things happen and we see a lot of people get rewards for doing really bad things,” Fuqua said.
It can be remembered that at first the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences banned Smith from attending the Oscars for ten years.
Will Smith publicly apologized to Chris Rock for the Oscar slap
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