Will Smith Full Biography | Will Smith Interview 2023

Will Smith Full Biography – Hollywood Megastar the incomparable Will Smith what crime did Young will end up in prison for how did his rap pseudonym Fresh Prince come about for the sake of which role did he exhaust himself with training for a whole year and Whose

advice made him the highest grossing actor in Hollywood today we will answer all these questions and even more so get comfortable and we are starting foreign

what you have come to understand is Will

Smith the alien annihilating MC the

bigger than life movie star is largely a

construction a carefully crafted and

honed character designed to protect

myself to hide myself from the world

the life and career of our today’s star

was most influenced by his family it was

the family that made him the Will Smith

we all know his father Willard Carroll

Smith after whom are today’s star was

named was born and raised in the rough

and dirty streets of North Philadelphia

in the 1940s he grew up unsupervised and

as a teenager Willard developed a

brashness and aggression that would

haunt him for the rest of his life

despite his hard work wild energy and

sharp mind his drive to self-destruction

always took its toll after an unfinished

education and unfinished a service in

the Army Willard returned to

Philadelphia found a job at a

metallurgical plant

but because of his race he had to leave

it and open his own business my father

tormented me and he was also one of the

greatest men I’ve ever known

my father was violent but he was also at

every game play and recital he was an

alcoholic but he was sober at every

premiere of every one of my movies he

listened to every record he visited

every Studio

Smith’s Mother Caroline Elaine bright

was born and raised in Homewood a black

neighborhood on Pittsburgh East Side she

was an honors student at Westinghouse

Academy and one of the first black women

at Carnegie Mellon University my mother

graduated from Carnegie Mellon and she

was dead serious about education and in

her mind if you didn’t have an education

you you were dead you know yeah you did

it wrong you can’t survive in this world

without an education she was interested

in business and always had her own money

Caroline married for the first time in

her 20s gave birth to a daughter Pam and

divorced less than three years later

wanting more from life she packed her

things and went to live with her mother

in Philadelphia Will’s parents met at a

dance in the summer of 1964. two years

later they got married at Niagara Falls

the family settled in the

mother-in-law’s house and began to

develop the family business repairing

refrigerators on September 25th 1968

they had their first joint child son

will my mom says that from the moment I

showed up I was a talker always smiling

yapping and babbling away content to

just be making noise

since parents work took a lot of time

grandmother Gigi was Raising her son she

had a huge porch Smith recalls which

served as my front row seat to the drama

of North 54th Street and a stage on

which I could join in the theatrics she

dropped me up on that porch and watched

me jibber jabber with anybody and

everybody who walked by even at that age

I loved having an audience when will

turned two his parents bought their own

house just a few kilometers from Gigi’s

and a year later twins Harry and Ellen

were born counting Caroline’s eldest

daughter Pam there were six people

living Under One Roof at the same time

the father’s business flourished and the

family lived quite well my middle class

upbringing contributed to the constant

criticism I took early in my rap career

Smith says I was not a gangster and I

wasn’t selling drugs I grew up on a nice

Street and a two-parent household I went

to a Catholic school with mostly white

kids until I was 14. my mom was college

educated and for all of his adults my

father put food on the table and would

die before he abandoned his kids however

Willard senior while drunk often raised

his hand to his wife and children Will’s

younger brother Harry always stood up

for his mother sister Ellen hid and

cried and will decided that he would

please everyone I was the Entertainer in

the family I wanted to keep everything

light and fun and joyful I should have

been able to keep my father satisfied I

should have been able to protect my

mother I should have been able to make

the family stable and happy

constant fear throughout his childhood

developed Will’s keenest intuition the

ability to feel any emotion around him

he learned to feel anger anticipate joy

and understand sadness on a much deeper

level than most other children and the

boy was very dreamy and often lost in

his imagination later these qualities

made him a talented actor and Megastar

in Hollywood Will’s parents supported

his passion for music as they made all

their children learn to play the piano

since their mother played it herself

Harry played the saxophone and will took

drum lessons in high school however the

boy really liked Only the Piano his most

emotional performance on the piano took

place at the age of 11 in his

grandmother’s church when he played

Feelings by Morris Albert Gigi was

delighted to listen to her grandson’s

performance and the look on her face I

still struggled to describe it Smith

admitted the words Pride or approval are

pale and inadequate I could only say

that I have been chasing that look in

the eyes of every woman I’ve ever loved

ever since I’ve never felt more certain

of some woman’s adoration all my career

my performances my albums everything has

been a Relentless unbroken quest to

relive the delicious Purity I felt when

I played feelings at Resurrection hall

for my Gigi after that we’ll start

performing all the time he made up skits

for his parents acted out moments from

movies with friends sang songs in church

public speaking became his little Oasis

Of Happiness although Smith lived in an

area where the majority of the

population was black he attended Our

Lady of Lourdes Catholic school with

white children however he never felt

comfortable anywhere a Catholic School

no matter how well spoken or intelligent

I was still the black kid in Winfield no

matter how much I was on the latest

music or fashion I was never quite black

enough

at school as well as at home his shield

was a sense of humor in public speaking

and the classroom will was a typical

clown the hidden disrespect numerous

suspensions from classes in the 7th and

8th grades not being invited to parties

and school events the boy explained

being a Baptist in the Catholic church

and not black in a white world besides

his parents knew that it was the best

school in the districts in terms of

academic performance so they insisted

their son be patient but after Smith a

member of the School’s football team was

denied a front row seat at the awards

ceremony and was refused to accept the

player of the year award on stage

because of his skin color the parents

patients finally ran out will was moved

to Overbrook High School a center for

black youth in West Philadelphia which

was nicknamed The Castle on the hill it

is in this school that a new Hip-Hop

star the incomparable Fresh Prince was

born

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will was introduced to hip-hop Culture

by his cousin Paul who moved in with the

Smiths in 1983 because of his problems

with the law the boys became friends

back then hip hop wasn’t what it is now

the star recalls there had been a couple

of hits but for the most part it was

still underground there were no albums

or singles no radio play no videos

Paul’s Bad Company in New York was

helping him get the coolest hip-hop

mixtapes Will’s Idol at that time was

Grandmaster Cass who had the greatest

influence on his further musical career

he was the prototype for the fresh

prince he was one of hip-hop’s first

storytellers Kaz was witty he was clever

his verses took you on a journey

first hit single girls ain’t nothing but

trouble was inspired by grandmaster’s

freestyle mixtape Yvette I’m not exactly

sure when I became a rapper will said

back then hip hop wasn’t something we

did it was what we were hip-hop was not

just our music it was dance it was

fashion street art politics social

justice it was everything it was life

it was us it was at school where will

began freestyling to the beatbox of his

friend Clarence Holmes nicknamed ready

Rock C at night he was riding and

memorizing his own lyrics and during the

day he joined rap battles proving to

everyone that he was the best some guys

were more rhythmic and more poetic but

he was the funniest no one could

entertain the crowd better than him and

humor according to the star always won

will was loved by everyone both

classmates and teachers for his way of

making everyone laugh his favorite

teacher Miss Brown jokingly nicknamed

Smith Prince Charming in the 80s the

word fresh was popular among hip-hoppers

meaning cool so will decided to combine

it with his nickname and choose Fresh

Prince as his stage name he had no idea

that soon this name would be all over

the world during that time Smith met his

first love at school a girl named

Melanie Parker

she had gorgeous mahogany eyes and a

springtime smile that I would come to

understand was painted on top of hidden

layers of sadness Melanie was a Broken

Angel and from the moment I saw her I

wanted nothing more than to take care of

her

it was for Melanie’s sake that will who

dreamed of his own family since

childhood decided to become the most

famous rapper and the most successful

showman in order to ensure their future

together in the 11th grade Smith joined

the band The hypnotic MCS hoping to

become famous however the boys treated

hip-hop more as a hobby and 16 year old

will was not perceived as an equal at

all therefore after six months Fresh

Prince said goodbye to them he noted my

story was very different from the ones

being told by the young black men who

were launching the global phenomenon

that would later become hip hop in their

minds I was somehow an illegitimate

artist it would call me soft whack corny

a bubble gum wrapper criticisms that

violently infuriated me looking back I

realize I may have been projecting a

little at one of his girlfriend’s

parties he met The Talented DJ Jeffrey

Allen towns nicknamed DJ Jazzy Jeff the

guy had a lot in common so they became

friends fast and decided to perform

together this is how the band DJ Jazzy

Jeff and The Fresh Prince was born young

people were real Workaholics so they

worked on music every day will would

come over to his friend’s house after

school and they would hang out in Jeff’s

basement or he had some kind of a studio

we had done every show we could block

parties school dances proms basement

parties birthdays fundraisers and church

parking lots you name it we did it we

had established a rep as fun creative

captivating party rockers

they also participated in the 1986 new

music seminar an annual DJ in MC

competition held in New York City there

DJ Jazzy Jeff received the title of King

of the DJ world and Will Smith realized

for the first time that he did not want

to go to college after the victory at

the festival the boys were invited to

perform in clubs of Philadelphia

Delaware and Atlantic City they also got

their own manager James Lasseter an old

friend of Jeff’s nicknamed JL who dealt

with the band’s legal and organizational

issues once their music Was Heard by

local businessman Dana Goodman he was

the younger brother of Lawrence Goodman

the founder of pop art records one of

the first hip-hop labels that gained

popularity in New York Dana was

delighted with the boy’s Charisma and

decided to sign a record deal with them

they recorded two singles together just

one of those days and girls ain’t

nothing but trouble after some time the

last composition became a hit on the

radio in Fresh Prince and Jazzy Jeff

were finally recognized have you ever

listened to their songs let us know in

the comments we’d love to hear your

thoughts on Will’s early work this

became the last argument for Will and

the decision not to go to college

however not everyone in the family was

so supportive of it when I told her I

wasn’t going to college because I wanted

to rap you know it wasn’t though you’re

going to be Will Smith yeah yes yeah she

she had uh no idea and you know so my

father let me have a year so I had a

year that I could go try to do rap music

and then after that I was going to have

to go to college the Young Artists

recorded the first full-length album

called rock the house us and went on a

U.S tour where they performed as a

warm-up for Public Enemy and two Live

Crew two of the most influential hip-hop

bands in the country they were noticed

by Russell Simmons a well-known producer

at the time and the Band came under his

leadership however Dana Goodman still

wanted full control over the band in

their record sales then JL decided to do

the following he persuaded Dana to sign

a deal with the international company

Jive Records that would later manage the

careers of such pop stars as Britney

Spears and sync and Backstreet Boys and

they promised to bring the band to the

world stage in essence Jive covered all

expenses while Dana still remained the

source of income he willingly signed

such a contract received a big check and

sold their International rights to Jive

the company immediately re-released rock

the house in March 1987 with a new cover

and a new sound and it became a major

Global hit they started importing the

same new version of the album to the US

Dana realized that he had chosen a

one-time payment instead of regular ones

and could not get anything from the

imported records therefore he demanded

more money and threatened to completely

refuse to cooperate with jive a legal

battle ensued Smith said and as soon as

the lawyers started digging into our

paperwork they figured out that I had

been 17 when I signed the contract with

Dana Under Pennsylvania law anyone under

the age of 18 cannot legally sign a

contract without a parent or Guardian

present I had signed mine in the lobby

of a studio before a recording session

there are four in legal terms our

contract with Dana never existed Dana

Goodman suffered the loss of such a

profitable band and even wanted to get

even with Will arriving at his house

with a loaded gun Will’s dad approached

Dana and said that he could shoot the

whole family but they would not let him

hurt his son because they were not at

all afraid of him Daddio immediate turn

his back on a man who could easily have

shot him and strolled into the house I’m

not sure if it was his military training

or his upbringing on the streets of

North Philly but he taught me a valuable

lesson that day it’s better to die than

to walk around scared

meanwhile things were going up in the

band their debut album rocked the house

and its major hit girls ain’t nothing

but trouble went gold selling more than

500 000 copies and eventually peaked at

number 83 on the billboard 200. the boys

performed at almost 200 concerts and in

the fall of 1987 they flew for the first

time to London for six weeks to record

their second album The Musicians

recorded a lot of songs and the

producers liked them so much that they

offered something that no one in the rap

world had done before DJ Jazzy Jeff and

Fresh Prince released the world’s first

double hip hop album the guys had no

idea what this album would mean for the

industry they didn’t know if the fans

wanted it if the people at MTV would

like it if it would be played on the

radio or if it would be condemned by the

hip-hop Titans they were only concerned

with the creative process the second

album called he’s the DJ I’m the rapper

was released on March 29 1988. the

song’s brand new funk and parents just

don’t understand where the main hits

thanks to which the album climbed to the

fourth place on the billboard 200 and

became three-time was platinum as they

sold more than 3 million copies

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in which Jeff absolutely massacred the

Wheels of Steel and the other half was

the rapper side where I was allowed to

let the hyper-creative poetic

playfulness of my 19 year old mind run

wild at the 31st Annual Grammy Awards in

their first ever rap award DJ Jazzy Jeff

and Fresh Prince won best rap

performance for parents just don’t

understand making them the first rappers

in the world who received this award the

guys boycotted the ceremony itself

because the Music Academy naras which

presented the Grammys refused to

broadcast the rap Awards presentation on

television the band became Innovative in

many ways they launched yo MTV wraps

which broadcasted hip hop on daytime

television will and Jeff were among the

first to be broadcast live on daytime

radio and Four Seasons which at that

time did not allow rappers to stay in

their hotels change their decision only

after the president when Russell Simons

accommodated the boys in his own room

we’ll now have the money and fame he had

always dreamed of he bought his

grandmother an apartment on the 16th

floor overlooking the historic City

Center and he and his beloved Melanie

moved to Gigi’s old house the band

launched a Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince

hotline

1-900-909 Jeff was the first toll-free

900 number in history premium phone

numbers have become a revolutionary new

way to connect with fans and in fact the

Forerunner of modern social networks

fans called it to hear the Idol’s short

daily messages of where they were and

what they were doing at the peak of

their popularity they received about 5

000 calls a day however constant touring

and lack of time for personal life

caused a crack in will and Melanie’s

relationship the last straw was the

Betrayal of his beloved one the couple

broke up Smith took the breakup very

hard he tried to drown his pain in the

immeasurable money spending as he had a

lot of it and in promiscuous sexual

relations

I had sex with so many women and it was

so constitutionally disagreeable to the

core of my being that I developed a

psychosomatic reaction to having an

organism it would literally make me gag

and sometimes even vomit

out of grief will bought his first house

a mansion overlooking Marion Park in a

rich area beyond the City Line Bridge as

well as the whole car park after six

months of separation from Melanie he

decided to get her back the couple moved

in again and now lived in a new house

but they never managed to restore a

normal relationship during the same

period will became involved with jbm a

junior Black Mafia that was involved in

the sale of addictive substances they

often played pool with Smith for money

at his house this band was supposed to

record their next album in a studio in

the Bahamas but instead the artists just

spent two hundred thousand dollars on

entertainment and girls and didn’t make

a single song the situation was saved by

the band’s manager who called Willard

senior he arrived at the studio saw the

entire creative process and sent

everyone Home the album and in this

corner was released in October 1989 just

on Halloween and the public greeted it

with silence in a desperate attempt to

save the situation at least somehow the

band went on tour but it was all in vain

and in this corner flop hard Smith

recalled we were coming off 3 million

records sold triple platinum sales in

the first ever Grammy Award in rap

expectations and Investments were very

high and we crashed and burned at that

time we’ll begin to fly to Los Angeles

where he met Tanya Moore who later

played an important role in his life

choice instead of recording new albums

the guys spent money but did not earn it

later it turned out that they did not

even pay taxes Smith had to sell his

entire car park house and finally end

his relationship with Melanie during one

of the interviews on the local radio

station WDAS FM the former band manager

Dana Goodman entered the studio with

another man the latter began to shout

during the recording that will should

thank Dana for his popularity slowly

approaching the rapper however the

star’s bodyguard and his friend Charlie

blocked the stranger’s path and

seriously injured him as a result Smith

and Charlie were thrown into prison you

know getting into the fight at the radio

station that you know Charlie punching a

dude that ended me in jail so the money

is gone the car is gone I’m laying on

the floor

in a jail cell and I’m like you’ve got

to be kidding me

I want a Grammy eight months ago

right like what is happening the

victim’s lawyers filed a lawsuit

specifically against Smith and not his

bodyguard in the hope of making good

money however when they found out that

the prince was broke this claim was

rejected will was released from prison

but new troubles awaited him at home the

FBI came after jbm the feds knew that

the young rapper was in close contact

with them so he was again threatened

with imprisonment Smith had no choice

but to flee Los Angeles there he and

Tanya Moore rented an apartment and

started living together it was she who

inspired will to work on the next

project that would change his life

forever

at one of the shows in Los Angeles Smith

met Benny Medina who was a Headhunter

for Warner Bros records Studio he

invited the young rapper to the birthday

party of the famous producer Quincy

Jones the thing was these two had the

idea to make a series about a poor

relative who moved to live with a rich

family in the luxurious Bel-Air area of

Los Angeles they wanted Fresh Prince to

star in it and that’s why they gave him

an opportunity to audition right in

front of the guests at the party I don’t

remember much about the audition it’s

kind of a blurry collage of jokes laughs

punch lines and ad-libs Quincy then

Brandon Benny 20 magical minutes

culminating in Innovation from the

entire room

at the same party the producers in Smith

signed an agreement to shoot the pilot

previously called The Fresh Prince of

Bel-Air will was delighted at this

opportunity to prove himself his new

screen family became James Avery whose

approval the young actor sought for it

in six years Janet Hubert Whitton who

fought tirelessly for a respectful image

of the black community on the screen

Alfonso Ribeiro who became his true

friend and advised him to name his

screen character Will Smith Tatiana Ali

an 11 year old who spent her teenage

years on the set and Karen Parsons who

rejected relationship with Smith without

spoiling the series will also persuaded

Jazzy Jeff to act promising that they

would write another album together later

Jeff’s character became one of the

audience’s favorites and he learned to

love the acting process too his most

memorable scene was when Uncle Phil

throws him out of the house during the

shooting of the pilot episode no one

knew that this bit would catch on Smith

said so we only had one shot of Jeff

flying out of the house the interior of

the Bel Air mansion and the exterior are

two different locations and we only had

a one-day shoot at the the exterior

location so we had to use the same shot

of Jeff being thrown out over and over

therefore anytime you see Jeff enter

with the brown and white Aztec pattern

shirt you know that he’ll be thrown out

in that scene the sitcom premiered on

September 10 1990 and was an instant

success debuting with the highest

ratings of the season five working days

were given for the production of one

episode on Monday the actors producers

and screenwriters sat down to read the

script on Tuesday and Wednesday there

were rehearsals the actors on stage

tried to breathe life into the woods

Thursday was a technical run day with

light sound and camera setup and on

Friday the shooting took place in front

of a live audience Friday nights on the

set of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air were

like being at the hottest club in the

city everybody who was anybody made

their way to our tapings

the entire cast of the sitcom could sing

and dance therefore in the breaks

between scenes the audience was

entertained with musical performances

the highlight of which was the band DJ

Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince music

education also helped and one of the

famous scenes Smith played Beethoven’s

Fur Elise on the piano the set went

silent the actor recalled as everyone

realized this show was about to be

special the whole point of the scene had

been to never judge a book by its cover

the producers were so inspired by this

improvisational moment that they kept it

and it became the defining thematic

premise of the entire series Prince and

Jeff returned to work on the fourth

album which was called home base but now

the music had to be done part-time at

night compared to the failed third album

for home base they wrote twice as many

songs in half the time and on a quarter

of the same budget and those songs were

much better that included summertime the

only song will wrote from start to

finish without correcting or changing a

single word it was his first number one

song on the hot r b hip-hop chart and

Number Four Song on the bill 100 the

band recorded the music video at their

home in Philadelphia with the

participation of family members and

Friends

here it is a cool slightly transformed

just a bit of a break from the norm home

base went platinum in two months and won

an American Music Award and a second

Grammy the boys boycotted this ceremony

as well I was positive we were going to

lose so I didn’t go Jazzy Jeff and The

Fresh Prince now had two Grammys and I

had yet to make an appearance anywhere

near the award show

at the same time the Network’s success

was growing will as an a student in life

prepared for each series with all

seriousness he studied lines obsessively

and was so afraid of making a mistake

that he memorized the entire script not

just his words but everyone else’s too

and therefore during filming he

subconsciously moved his lips to the

camera at the same time as other actors

in episode 5 of the first season during

the dialogue between the prince and ice

tray it is clearly visible that will

silently utters the friend’s lines so

you’re also a disadvantaged inner city

youth I hear

with him tan

of course colleagues on the set pointed

out his mistake to the rapper and he

tried not to repeat it again

however Smith’s recognition as a true

actor came later in the episode called

Papa’s Got a Brand New excuse or the

always cheerful will showed his dramatic

side you know what Uncle Phil I’m gonna

get through college without him I’m

gonna get a great job without him I’m

gonna marry me a beautiful honey and I’m

having a whole bunch of kids I’ll be a

better father than he ever was and I

sure as hell don’t need them for that

because ain’t a damn thing he could ever

teach me about how to love my kids

how come you don’t want me man

the abandoned son’s monologue prompted

his screen Uncle Phil actor James Avery

to whisper to his young colleague at the

end of the scene now you’re an actor one

day a young woman came to audition for

the role of the fresh Prince’s

girlfriend she did not Sue The Producers

because of her small height however

Smith really liked the young actress it

was Jada Pinkett by that time will had

already broken up with his girlfriend

Tanya Moore and was looking for new

adventures he sneaked into the set where

Jada was filming the sitcom a different

world in hopes of meeting her instead he

talked to the girl sitting next to him

in the audience Smith and Pinkett didn’t

get to talk that night as he went home

with Cherise and Pino a cute stranger he

managed to make laugh and three months

later will made her his first wife

Willard Carroll Smith III was born on

November 11 1992. the couple called him

Trey from birth because he was the third

Willard Smith In The Family the famous

song Just the Two of Us was a father’s

dedication to his son being popular

again and given a second chance in life

Will Smith didn’t want to risk his

future anymore he perfectly understood

that work in the TV series was not

Eternal and therefore began to look for

parts in movies will saw his main goal

in life as becoming the biggest movie

star in the world to do this his manager

JL began reading hundreds of scripts and

considering auditions for various roles

the actor was offered to star in the

movie eight heads in a duffel bag and a

fair pay of 10 million dollars but a gut

instinct told Will to turn down the part

and instead play a supporting role for

just three hundred thousand in the

Pulitzer Prize nominated adaptation of

John guere’s play Six Degrees of

Separation in it a young swindler Paul

Poitier rubbed off on the trust of a

rich couple and fell in love with the

housewife played by the Charming star Dr

Channing Smith took his first role in

the big screen too seriously he moved

his family to New York where the movie

was filmed besides the actor decided to

try the method that was full immersion

in his character as a result he became

so confused that he no longer understood

where will ended and Paul began this

destroyed his relationship with his

young wife and shortly after that the

couple filed for divorce Cherie and I

were in the first few months of our

marriage with a brand new baby the actor

recalled and for sure I can imagine that

this experience was unsettling to say

the least she’d married a guy named Will

Smith and now she was living with a guy

named Paul Poitier and to make matters

worse during shooting I fell in love

with stalker Channing not as well but as

Paul

I couldn’t turn him off this nitwit

Chapman who shot John Lennon said he did

it because he wanted to draw the

attention of the world

Catcher in the Rye

and the reading of this book would be

his defense

young Hinckley The Wiz kid who shot

Reagan and his press secretary said if

you want my defense all you have to do

is read

catch her in the Rye

when will and his family returned to Los

Angeles he was not himself everyone who

worked on the series was also shocked by

the actor’s internal changes he could

not remember how the Fresh Prince walked

talked and behaved it lasted a full 10

episodes at the beginning of the fourth

season

Smith lost his sense of humor coolness

Charisma and ability to improvise I

immediately hired five or six of my

friends from Philly to work on the

writing staff on the crew and to

surround me on set while I relearned how

to play will

it worked Fresh Prince became himself

again and he never used the method again

in his life at the end of 1993 Six

Degrees of Separation got into the big

screen and received widespread critical

Acclaim reviewers praised the unexpected

choice of Will Smith for the role of

Paul from that time on he was considered

a serious actor and will while still

married finally got acquainted with Jada

Pinkett and after the divorce in

December 1995 she officially became his

girlfriend

Will’s next move was a tandem with

Martin Lawrence and the action comedy

Bad Boys Martin himself contacted will

and offered to read a script about two

Miami cops who needed to switch roles to

solve a crime one of them was married

with Children the other was a rich

Playboy a newcomer clip maker Michael

Bay who had never worked on feature

films before was hired as the Director

at the first joint script reading the

producers were disappointed by the

Primitive lines of the characters and

the papers went to the trash can you

might think that a big time Hollywood

producer slinging a screenplay into the

trash three weeks before a shooting

might be unsettling for two young actors

and a director who’d never made a movie

but the opposite happened due to his

extensive experience with video clips

Michael was used to unexpected obstacles

money was never enough time was always

short and he constantly had to improvise

will and Martin were from the world of

Television so they were used to coming

up with phrases just on stage they were

brought scripts five minutes before

filming and all the time they had to

change dialogues and lines so that they

had a spark the fact that one of The

Producers threw the script out only

inspired the actors they shot the film

in daylight and at night they prepared

for the next shooting day there was such

incredible Chemistry Between will and

Martin that the latter at some point

stopped worrying about the dialogues

because the actors were constantly

improvising on the set

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think you were going to shoot me for a

minute I was

the whole process of shooting Bad Boys

was an extremely educational experience

although everything was done chaotically

and randomly the director also made

Smith who gained 11 pounds of muscles

for the role appear almost bare-chested

for the first time in the movie for the

same scene where his hero ran after the

car with the shirt unbuttoned will

prepared for four months with a trainer

from the University of California for my

whole childhood I hated how actors ran

in movies and I promised myself that the

first time I ran on camera I was going

to look like Carl Lewis I had trained

high knees High elbows for four months I

was ready

the scene was shot in a single take and

the director was delighted With It Bad

Boys was released in cinemas in 1995.

the success was not overwhelming but

quite good it was at the premiere that

Smith heard for the first time how one

of the female viewers admired his naked

torso it was the first time I had ever

experienced a woman having a sexual

reaction to my madness Smith recalled up

until this point in my life I had used

comedy to attract women and now I was

being objectified it was wonderful all I

could think was okay Michael Bay you

were right I was wrong thank you from

that point forward directors had to

argue with me to keep my shirt on

in the same year filming of the final

sixth season of The Fresh Prince of

Bel-Air began there were talks about

continuing the series but one of the

guest stars John Amos advised will not

to agree to it and ended on a high note

the following week Smith gathered the

entire cast of the series and told them

that the sixth season would be their

last the last episode of The Fresh

Prince of Bel-Air aired on May 20th 1996

the hour-long finale that shooting week

was the most emotional one in Will’s

career and it was a decent goodbye to

his television family the same year the

legendary movie Independence Day

directed by Ronald emmerich about an

alien invasion was released the idea for

the plot came to emmerich when he and

Dean Devlin speculated about the

existence of extraterrestrial life in

1994 while working on Stargate one of

the journalists then asked the director

why he made such a film if he himself

does not believe in the existence of

extraterrestrial life emmerich responded

by saying that he was still fascinated

by the idea of aliens coming to Earth

and then asked their reporter how he

would feel if he woke up one morning to

find giant alien spaceships hovering

over every major city on the planet

afterwards Ronald returned to Devlin and

said that he seemed to have an idea of

what their next film would be about the

U.S army initially agreed to help the

authors of the movie with permission to

shoot on military bases Consulting with

actors who played soldiers Etc but after

learning that the film would contain

references to Area 51 they withdrew

their permission

Smith was cast in the lead role after

his role in Six Degrees of Separation

with a budget of 75 million dollars

Independence Day grossed 306 million

dollars only in the United States in May

1996 the themed restaurant Planet

Hollywood opened in Sydney three World

megastars Schwarzenegger Stallone and

Willis invested in it Smith was also

invited to the opening ceremony there

the actor asked his colleagues the

question that interested him the most at

the time what do you need to do to

become the biggest movie star in the

world to which Arnold replied you are

not a movie star if your movies are only

successful in America you are not a

movie star until every person in every

country on Earth knows who you are you

have to travel the globe Shake every

hand kiss every baby think of yourself

as a politician running for biggest

movie star in the world will later

admitted that the night Arnold had given

him the key which would become his

secret weapon for the next two decades

he understood that the movie’s success

depended on the worldwide box office he

and JL did the math and realized that a

movie that might make say only 10

million in Spain would easily make 15 to

25 million dollars if he got there in

person did the premiere talk to the

press and set up a couple meetings with

fans it also wouldn’t hurt to learn a

few phrases in the local language and

say them in the news multiply that say

by 30 and traveling to different

countries would effectively double the

potential Global box office the actor

decided to check this discovery in

emrick’s movie he flew to Europe gave

interviews held premieres and signed

autographs this approach caused an

incredible result a month after the

start of distribution in the world

Independence Day became the most

expensive film in history its revenues

exceeded 817 million dollars I had gone

from being poor to rich to broke with no

acting experience to starring in the

highest grossing film in the world and I

was only 27 years old

in between filming we’ll spend all his

time with Jada they got engaged but the

woman did not hurry to get married the

actress did not believe in traditional

marriage and was disgusted by the

conventional wedding instead she dreamed

of a simple but unusual ceremony she

imagined herself on top of a mountain in

a white dress alone with Will no priest

no family no Witnesses only two of them

and God Smith on the other hand was a

supporter of making traditional vows in

front of friends and family Jada’s

mother Gammy was on his side after

learning that her daughter was already

carrying her first child it was she who

became their traditional wedding planner

the ceremony took place in a historic

castle in the suburbs of Baltimore on

New Year’s Eve a hundred relatives and

Friends attended the ceremony the couple

said their vows in front of the priest

and officially registered their marriage

and six months later the newlyweds had a

boy named Jaden Christopher sire Smith

however a year before this wonderful

event in the life of the young couple

will got his hands on the script of

Another Science Fiction film about a

secret Bureau that regulates monitors

and controls the activities of aliens on

planet Earth of course we are talking

about Men In Black director Barry

sonnenfeld wanted Smith for this role

will did not even need to participate in

the audition he was immediately invited

to the role the actor read the script

the same evening however he was worried

that this was the second film about

aliens in a row will thought it would be

too much like Independence Day and due

to the fact that the latter was such a

huge hit there was a fear that the film

would turn out to be less successful it

seemed to me that at best this would be

a lateral move Bad Boys was a buddy cop

movie Independence Day was an alien

movie and this new script was a buddy

cop alien movie

after Consulting with his manager JL

Smith turned down this role however the

film producer Steven Spielberg was in no

hurry to give up he invited the actor to

his house in the Hamptons introduced him

to the director explained the film

concept and finally convinced will to

take part in the project Tommy Lee Jones

became Smith’s screen partner

passenger seat belt

see now we got to work on your people

skills you know you get a much better

reaction if you’re a little more polite

fasten your seat belt please whoa that

was good

when the filming began the script was

not yet finished this led to delays in

the filming process as some scenes had

to be reshot later to match the script

Men In Black was released on July 2nd

1997 exactly one year after Independence

Day the date was not chosen by Chance

the fact was that the days around the

4th of July were always considered the

most desirable premiere date of the Year

Studios were trying to release their

promising pictures at this time since it

was a long weekend people were willing

to go to the movies every day which

meant that the box office could be

double or triple compared to any other

week Will Smith could not help but take

advantage of such an opportunity I

decided I wanted to publicly lean into

the pressure in all of my press

interviews I began referring to the 4th

of July weekend as big Willy weekend he

recalled this phrase made all the

headlines in Britain the joke came out

with the double meaning the word Willie

in slang meant male genitalia besides

Smith recorded the soundtrack for the

album with the same title Men In Black

which was included on his debut solo

album Big Willie Style this album reads

the top 10 of the US billboard 200 and

went platinum nine times the symbiotic

relationship between movie song and

music video was a perfect promotional

storm the song works as a massive radio

promotion for the movie that is

essentially free the music video acts

like a trailer for the movie and the

movie sends fans to buy the album and

request the song and video

Big Willy’s weekend was simply Sky High

Men In Black grossed 51 million in the

first three days of release only in the

United States the worldwide box office

eventually exceeded 600 million dollars

the soundtrack had a circulation of more

than 5 million copies to make even more

money will release the album big Willy

style which sold more than 12 million

copies worldwide that’s how will turned

out to be the most successful actor

according to the results of a survey of

film industry professionals and the

rating of stars capable of providing

financing for projects success at the

box office attractiveness to different

Target audiences and influencing other

factors he was the only one of all to

receive 10 out of 10 points

and Jeff Blake president of Global

Marketing and distribution for Columbia

Pictures told the New York Times we can

say with confidence that Will Smith now

owns the Fourth of July weekend

since then the actor has officially and

unanimously become one of the biggest

movie stars in the world in 1998 Smith

starred in Tony Scott’s political action

thriller Enemy of the State as lawyer

Robert Dean the film grossed 250.8

million dollars at the global box office

and received positive reviews from film

critics many praised the script and

direction as well as the actor’s

performance

a year later we’ll refuse the role of

Neo in The Matrix in favor of the movie

Wild Wild West despite criticism of the

film Smith said that he did not regret

his decision claiming that Keanu Reeves

performance as Nia was better than what

he would have achieved and the main

movie soundtrack Wild Wild West topped

the Billboard Hot 100. it became the

lead single from the album willenium

which reached number five on the

billboard 200 and win double Platinum

during the shooting of wild wild west

The Smiths had a confusing family moment

will and his brother Harry decided to

fulfill their mother’s dream and bought

her a farm in Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania

digging through old boxes during the

moving out their mother found unsigned

divorce papers almost 20 years ago she

and Will’s dad went through the whole

process but for some reason they didn’t

sign the final papers Caroline had no

idea that she was technically still

married therefore she signed the

documents and submitted them to the

court when reviewing the papers it

turned out that Willard senior was

obligated to pay child support to his

ex-wife during these years with interest

and fine

it was about a hundred and forty

thousand dollars the mother strongly

insisted on paying the entire amount but

her ex-husband did not have it so Will

came to the rescue secretly transferring

the required amount to his father’s

account this made me the first person in

the history of Pennsylvania to pay their

own damn child support when Mom mom

found out that I had paid Daddio’s debt

she was pissed and immediately wrote me

a check for 140 000 making her the first

person in the history of Pennsylvania to

pay her own child back the back child

support that they had paid for

themselves

on Halloween 2000 the Smith family had a

baby girl Willow shortly after her birth

will bought a 103 acre ranch 45 minutes

Northwest of Los Angeles there were five

houses a Lake stables Rich flora and

fauna on the territory

the actor recalled a gorgeous doe walked

up to the front door on my first tour I

took it as a sign I loved it I had the

perfect wife three beautiful children

and I was the Undisputed biggest movie

star in the world the final triumphant

brush stroke on my lifelong Dreamscape

would be her Lake a house with a name

however the wife did not like the house

she didn’t want to be alone most of the

time on a big ranch with kids and a lot

of people watching over the whole Farm

however she put up with her husband’s

extravagant purchase will later regret

not listening to Jada in his book will

he wrote to all of my young male readers

no means no nothing good comes from

spending your hard-earned money on a

family home that your wife doesn’t want

you’re putting a down payment on Discord

and for years you will be paying off a

mortgage of misery

the following year director Michael Mann

invited the actor to star in a Muhammad

Ali biopic Willow was very doubtful that

he could play this legendary personality

before that he had never boxed in his

life he did not have enough muscle mass

and he was afraid that his game would

disappoint both Ali and his fans around

the world then Muhammad called the actor

and offered to meet for this meeting

Smith went to Las Vegas where he met the

living Sports Legend and his family he

drew attention to the fact that they

both have a similar sense of humor they

were incredibly comfortable in each

other’s company Ali was a big kid just

like will and his heart was open so many

aspects of his life have been chronicled

right for for so many years that

everyone feels like we know the story

you feel like you know Muhammad Ali

you’ve seen him be funny you’ve seen him

be angry you you’ve seen the full

spectrum of emotions that any filmmaker

would try to to capture you’ve seen it

all so my question was what what are we

going to show what are we going to put

in into a movie that will be interesting

that he people haven’t seen already and

then after uh meeting meeting Ali and

the first time we met he told me uh I

was almost pretty enough after this

meeting will decided to agree to

participate in the Project Director Mann

took over the entire organization of the

shooting process he studied everything

related to Ali gathered a team of world

experts teachers and trainers he managed

the schedule and surrounded Smith with

people who were close to the boxer the

director also independently chose the

clothes assembled the cast and even

compiled a music playlist for the main

star will was only required to obey he

was introduced to coach Daryl Foster who

taught unboxing and brought the actor

into the necessary physical shape Smith

was delighted with the coach Daryl’s

style of training is full immersion he

doesn’t ask anybody to do anything that

he doesn’t do over the next year he ran

every mile jumped every rope lifted

every weight sparred as many rounds

every moment of training right by my

side he ate when I ate he slept when I

slept he worked when I worked they also

took real professionals from the boxing

world to play Ali’s Rivals it was them

who Smith improved his skills on however

for the first three months he trained

only with Daryl besides Michael Mann

brought in a neuroscientist to see put

it to help build new neural Connections

in the brain the scientists made a

looped 20-minute video of the typical

movements of Ali’s legs and arms twice a

day will would sit in a dark room and

watch this video staring intently at the

same movements until they were ingrained

in his brain now in the mirror the actor

began to remind himself of Muhammad Ali

he had 220 pounds of muscle and could

lift the bar weighing 365 pounds

The champ is here

ladies and gentlemen the heavyweight

champion of the world has arrived the

one year of training in the five months

of filming Ali was the most grueling

mental physical and emotional test of my

entire career but also the most

transformative will recalled ironically

the most difficult fight of Ali’s career

turned out to be the most difficult

scene to shoot it took two weeks Michael

Mann had remodeled an entire stadium and

hire over 20 000 extras to fill the

venue due to the lighting and humidity

the temperature in the ring exceeded 104

degrees Fahrenheit so after the first

day of filming Smith lost 10 pounds the

spirit of boxing camp and support became

practically a habit among the film crew

everyone started running five miles

early in the morning everyone trained in

the hall everyone ate properly everyone

read learned and offered new ideas

everyone lived according to the routine

to strive for a better version of

themselves this joint Mission the

purpose of which was to tell the story

of Muhammad Ali formed a qualitatively

new way of life for the group which

lasted long after the ending of filming

Ali brought the star’s first Oscar and

Golden Globe nominations and thus

Justified his new lifestyle in 2002

after a four-year break from music Smith

returned with his third album Born to

Reign which reached number 13 on the

billboard 200 and became gold the lead

single was a song from the movie Men in

Black 2 called black suits coming Nodge

ahead which reached number three in the

UK singles chart later that year Smith’s

first compilation album greatest hits

was released featuring songs from his

three solo albums as well as songs

produced with DJ Jazzy Jeff the

following year Smith returned the second

part of bad boys in tandem with Martin

Lawrence a lot of special effects were

used in the film however there were also

real locations for example the

underground morgue of a Cuban villain in

real life was a dairy with a fake facade

the Mansion blown up in Cuba was not a

pavilion set but a real house in Florida

sold by its owner specifically for the

movie despite receiving generally

negative reviews from critics the film

was a wild success at the Box office

grossing 270 million dollars worldwide

from the role of a cop of the president

Smith went to the cop of 2035 starring

the Sci-Fi Action film iRobot directed

by Alex proyas his character detective

Spooner who hated Humanity’s new metal

helpers investigated a murder case in

which a robot turned out to be involved

the movie was based on the collection of

Isaac asimov’s stories at first the

script had nothing to do with the work

of the famous American fiction writer

however after the initial script reached

the director and the film rights were

purchased the producers decided to

finalize the plot combining azimob’s

original story with an already developed

script with the working title hardwired

in this film for the first time in his

career Smith appeared completely naked

in one of the scenes you know see I was

I was um you know I saw Brad Pitt in

Troy you know and you know Brad Pitt is

is is 40. you know so I was feeling bad

I was like you know he’s 40 and you know

I’m I’m 35 and he’s in better shape than

me you know so I had to hurry up and get

myself to together and and get in shape

but you know every great actor needs one

nude scene an Audi RSQ concept car was

also developed specifically for the film

which was used as Spooner’s car in 2035.

the company’s bosses liked the new model

so much that they decided to put it into

mass production despite mixed reviews

the film was a box office success and

became another victory for the actor in

2004 Smith voiced the ambitious fish

Oscar who accidentally became the shark

storm and the animated film Shark Tale

worldwide box office of nearly 375

million dollars made everyone talk about

Will’s Lucky Star again during this run

my team was on fire nobody moved how we

moved people in Hollywood were trying to

figure out how we managed to be so

productive and so successful so

consistently

in 2005 Smith tried himself in the role

of Alex Hitchens a professional dating

Guru in the romantic comedy hitch his

character earned a living by teaching

men how to woo women but one day

something went wrong and it made Alex

change his perspective on love and

business Will’s colleagues on the set

were Kevin James and Eva Mendes whose

character would be played by Jennifer

Lopez by the way if you want a video

about this fiery singer or someone else

write to us in the comments we are open

to suggestions the movie was quite

warmly received by the audience and even

now it is included in various tops of

romantic comedies at the same time

Smith’s musical career did not stand

still his last album lost and found was

released in 2005 peaking at number six

on the billboard 200 with lead single

switch reaching the top 10 of both the

Billboard Hot 100 and UK singles chart

that same year Smith was listed in the

Guinness book of records for attending

three premieres in 24 hours the actor

was on fire he had a number of the

greatest successes in the history of

Hollywood he worked 70 to 80 hours a

week holidays weekends even vacations

were his opportunities for promotion

Smith spent whole days preparing for the

next role rewriting the script or

reading books and seeing friends

occasionally he organized Posh Christmas

and New Year celebrations because Jada

and her children could invite all their

friends and relatives for a week of fun

in the mountains and will not forgetting

about work for a minute use this time to

make deals with business partners whom

he also took with him to ski resorts all

expenses paid the star did not consider

himself a talented actor he explained

the secret of his success as follows

while the other guy is eating I’m

working while the other guy is sleeping

I am working while the other guy is

making love well I’m making love too but

I’m working really hard at it

in the 2006 biographical drama The

Pursuit of Happiness Smith first

appeared on the set with his son Jaden

when the boy overheard their phone

conversation with the Italian director

Gabrielle machino about the upcoming

project he asked his dad to let him be a

part of it the choice fell on Gabrielle

after will watch his picture The Last

Kiss although Machina did not speak

English and their first meeting almost

turned out to be a disaster the

director’s phrase thrown during the

conversation finally made up Smith’s

mind he said if you don’t choose me to

direct this film please don’t choose an

American filmmaker because Americans

don’t understand the beauty of the

American dream after these words will

and his manager JL had no doubts and

michina was entrusted with the work on

the project by the way the film plot

came to Jail’s mind when he saw a story

about a man named Chris Gardner on the

news at first he was homeless and lived

on the Streets of San Francisco with his

little son and then became a successful

stockbroker this was the real path of

the hero and therefore Smith willingly

agreed to transfer this incredible story

to the big screen green Gabrielle could

not find the perfect actor for the role

of Gardner’s son he had rejected 500

boys before Will and Jada decided to

take Jaden to an audition muccino was

delighted with the kit but the studio

decided that this would be the film’s

biggest failure they thought that people

would not be able to follow the plot if

a Hollywood star and his six-year-old

boy played on-screen father and son they

were also afraid the audience would

think it was nepotism and they would put

themselves in a bad position from the

beginning but Gabrielle insisted that

studio agreed to audition Will and Jaden

to test compatibility what’s that say on

the back of your bag my nickname

we picked nicknames

oh yeah what’d you say hot rod

as a result the boy was invited to

audition as many as nine times it was an

unprecedented case at each audition he

appeared in all his innocent

six-year-old glory and demonstrated that

he was perfectly suited for the role but

after the ninth audition the studio

appointed a tenth Jada lost patience she

notified Gabrielle in the studio that

Jaden was no longer available for the

role at that moment the director decided

that he could not make the film without

Jaden the studio relented and finally

offered the boy the role of Christopher

Jr for me this was Perfection on the set

at work with my son that was how I

wanted to parent on the battlefield of

life real Stakes real outcomes real

hunting I could correct errors in real

time and I could teach in real life

scenarios this is how I Define parental

love

the pursuit of happiness was released in

2006. it was a box office and critical

success earning will his second Oscar

nomination if I felt Invincible before

and now I really felt it I just made a

movie about a homeless black guy who

gets a job in the 80s and still crushed

every other movie The Box Office That

season I couldn’t miss

on December 10 2007 Smith was honored at

Grauman’s Chinese Theater on Hollywood

Boulevard he let this hand and

Footprints outside the theater in front

of many fans later that month Smith

appeared on the big screen in I Am

Legend the script was based on Richard

Matheson’s novel The Project could

appear as early as the 90s then Arnold

Schwarzenegger claimed the lead role of

lonely Robert Neville one of those who

remained alive in the post-apocalyptic

world and Ridley Scott was supposed to

be the director however after the

estimated future budget grew to

incredible proportions both considered

it better to engage in other promising

projects in the end Francis Lawrence

became the director of the movie

producer Akiva goldsmen decided to move

the film’s location from Los Angeles to

New York to further enhance the feelings

of emptiness because he said New York is

never empty since it was impossible to

film in a busy Square the filmmaker shot

Will Smith in his Studio using a blue

screen there were no decorations except

for a small booth and grass spread on

the studio floor more than a thousand

extras as well as various military

equipment were involved in the shooting

of the scenes on the Brooklyn Bridge

they were shot during six days and cost

the studio about 5 million dollars

single person that you or I has ever

known is dead

dead

there is no God in the film a couple of

hidden messages were left for Smith’s

fans for example throughout the film his

character sang Bob Marley’s song Three

Little Birds he also sang it as a little

Oscar in the Shark Tale and when Robert

was attacked by zombies he drove over

the same bridge that his character Agent

J jumped from in Men In Black negative

critics reviews were not at all

reflected in the world box office I Am

Legend became the highest grossing

December film in history it was a movie

that featured me on screen alone with a

dog and it grossed around 600 million

dollars the actor said the commercial

success of the movie proved Smith’s

first position at the box office in

Hollywood and in December 2008 TV Guide

named him one of the 10 most attractive

people in America the next film in the

star’s collection was the superhero

Blockbuster Hancock based on the script

of Vince Gilligan the creator of the

famous Breaking Bad series the film

script passed from one Studio to another

for 10 years but no one dared to bring

it to life during this time many famous

actors were considered for the main role

among them were George Clooney Ben

Affleck Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio

after various script rewrites and

Personnel reshuffles Peter Berg became

the film’s director Smith’s colleagues

on the set were Charlize Theron and

Jason Bateman

I hate to burst your little crazy

ladybug but it must not have been all

that great because I don’t remember

call me crazy

one more time

originally the film was to be called

tonight he comes it was later renamed

John Hancock and then shortened to

Hancock the name of the main character

appeared due to an error in the original

Will Smith character explained that when

he woke up in the hospital a nurse told

him to put John Hancock on one of the

papers the fact was that John Hancock

was an American congressman who gained

great popularity for a particularly

large signature placed under the

declaration of independence of the

United States later his name became

nominal and meant a person’s signature

the film was shown at a U.S military

base in the Middle East a week before

its U.S Premiere it was free for all U.S

military personnel at the base despite

mixed reviews from critics for both the

plot and Smith’s performance the story

about the drunken superhero grossed more

than 600 million dollars in just six

months after the success of I Am Legend

it was the Will Smith era but the wealth

popularity and fans undeniable love

still could not fill the actor’s void I

was trying to fill an internal emotional

hole with external material achievement

will recalled in his Memoirs ultimately

this kind of obsession is insatiable the

more you get the more you want all the

time never quite scratching the itch you

end up with a mind consumed by what it

doesn’t have and what it didn’t get and

in a spiraling inability to enjoy what

it has however the whole world thought

that fortune smiled to Smith his family

was considered exemplary will was the

biggest movie star in the world the

Karate Kid the first feature film in

which Jaden starred grossed almost 360

million dollars at the global box office

the first season of Jada’s new series

Hawthorne just aired Willow has signed a

contract with Roc Nation to record her

first album Trey was the star of his

high school football team and the former

wife together with the current one

jointly raised all the younger Smiths

nevertheless the truth about Will’s void

remained unknown to the audience and so

far the drama seven pounds has been

released besides the director Gabrielle

machino and the lead actor at least 30

other people who previously worked on

the pursuit of happiness participated in

the film create Nation including actors

and crew members this drama raised the

issue of time for each person on the

path to Redemption are some sins really

so big that they simply cannot be

cleansed how Justified will

self-sacrifice be and what will happen

to the most valuable gift and the person

who dares to accept it despite the Deep

content and great plot the film received

generally negative reviews from critics

Todd McCarthy from variety described the

film as an endlessly sentimental fable

about sacrificing Redemption that aims

only at the heart at the expense of the

head

and what do you think about this movie

we really liked it and you write your

impressions in the comments we want to

find like-minded people in 2012 Smith

reappeared on the big screen as Agent J

in Men In Black 3. after the film’s

released will was pleased to have

finished his work on the franchise

saying I think three is enough for me

three of anything is enough for me we’ll

look at it and we’ll consider it but it

feels like that it might be time to let

someone else do that

Men in Black 3 released 10 years after

the second part grossed more than 624

million dollars worldwide adjusted for

inflation it became the highest grossing

film of the famous franchise however

despite Will’s success in the movies his

family slowly began to fall apart to

prevent this the actor decided that they

needed a family project that’s how the

idea of shooting the movie After Earth

was born which was supposed to restore

their connection one day Smith saw the

program I shouldn’t be alive about

terrible deadly ordeals and incredible

situations where people found themselves

on the verge of death one of the stories

was about a father and son who got lost

in the wilderness far from civilization

a father was injured after an accident

and his teenage son had to walk alone

for miles to find help and save his dad

as I watched the actor recalled I kept

imagining myself injured and helpless

and Jaden climbing through the

Wilderness trying to get to civilization

to save me the scenario is stuck in my

mind a coming-of-age story about a young

man trying to save his father the idea

morphed into movie it would also be

about a father learning to trust and

depend on a son

it would be a metaphor a means to heal

their relationship he sent the episode

of I shouldn’t be alive to M Night

Shyamalan who really liked it and also

thought that it could make a good movie

filming took place in Utah Costa Rica

and Philadelphia will it never worked on

a film in his hometown before he agreed

to teach Jada’s brother Caleb Pinkett

how to develop scripts because he was

very good at history and historians

usually find it easy to write plots and

characters Smith considered him an ideal

student Will’s manager JL didn’t share

his optimism about the film he did not

like the script at all as well as the

idea itself as well as the time chosen

for filming will didn’t care he thought

only of his family and was determined to

surround Jaden with love and comfort it

was hot in Costa Rica so Smith ordered

huge air-conditioned tents set up in all

locations so Jaden could rest between

scenes play ping pong eat and listen to

music thanks to this Jaden felt the

support he needed and on the set of

After Earth Father and Son really got

closer but not for long

After Earth was a magical bonding

experience for Jaden and me

he was fresh into his teens the

mythological timing was perfect

I had succeeded in illustrating the

depth of My caring concern but the

Father and Son honeymoon was short-lived

After Earth was in abysmal box office in

critical failure

and what was worse was that Jaden took

the hit

Jaden had Faithfully done everything I’d

instructed him to do that’s why I wasn’t

going to do this bird tonight

Jaden had Faithfully done everything I

had instructed him to do and I had

coached him into the worst public

mauling he’d ever experienced after such

criticism the relationship between

Father and Son cracked and relations

with the family were not getting better

either it was at this time that Jada was

supposed to celebrate her birthday to

please his beloved wife Smith decided to

arrange a real extravaganza

I love planning events orchestrating

spectacle and emotion in my mind the sum

total of a happy life is the quality of

your memory so I’m always looking for

the most vivid memory that I can create

as a child Jada had a very close

relationship with her grandmother

unfortunately she passed away a few

years before her granddaughter’s 40th

birthday will secretly contacted Jada’s

Aunt who was in charge of the family

archives she kept photos videos and

letters as well as audio tapes on which

Jada’s grandmother recorded her thoughts

in the last weeks of her life no one in

the family has heard them yet they were

to become Will’s biggest gift for Jada’s

birthday so he decided to make a short

documentary about her life will hired a

team of researchers to study her

family’s genealogy and Trace her

grandmother’s lineage back to the

slavery era he then found a director who

compiled the information and made the

movie

however according to the star it was not

enough the thing is that jadel liked the

city of Santa Fe and New Mexico and the

artists there so Smith decided to make a

surprise and spend a three-day weekend

there he bought an entire hotel in the

city where he invited dozens of their

closest friends and relatives every

night they were supposed to have a great

family dinner and afterwards they were

all in for a surprise on Friday evening

there was a closed art show on Saturday

morning there was a spiritual Adventure

a hike to Picacho Peak National Park

apart from it the husband invited Jada’s

favorite artists to paint for them and

conduct master classes for the whole

family and the best thing of the weekend

would be watching a documentary about

Jada everyone really enjoyed their stay

in Santa Fe the first two days however

during Jada’s documentary showing to the

guests when all heard her grandmother’s

voice they fell silent the old woman’s

words were addressed to specific family

members many of whom were present there

for the first time since her

grandmother’s death

Jada heard her voice

I had seen the video a hundred times at

this point so I was only watching Jada

the entire place is in tears her family

my family everybody all except Jada she

sat motionless refusing to make eye

contact with me

returning to the hotel room the birthday

girl asked to cancel the further

celebration the argument turned into a

real fight until Willow ran into the

room and persuaded everyone to calm down

after this incident the couple decided

to take a break from their relationship

and will to spend a couple of weeks

alone no TV no phone no people and no

conversations he went to their home in

the Utah mountains far from civilization

the actor arranged for food to be

delivered to his door without any human

contact for 14 days he did not speak to

anyone let the house only for a morning

walk and the rest of the time he

remained in the house this experience

made the star take a good look at

himself and understand why he could not

save his family in the following years

Smith participated in not quite popular

projects together with Margot Robbie he

starred in the romantic drama focus and

played the role of an experienced

swindler who took over a young

attractive woman Smith was set to star

in the sci-fi thriller Brilliance an

adaptation of Marcus say he’s novel but

left the project to work on really

Scott’s sport drama concussion in this

movie Smith played Dr Bennett omala of

the brain injury Research Institute who

was the first to discover chronic

traumatic encephalopathy the actor said

that he had doubts about the film at the

beginning of production saying some of

my happiest memories are watching my son

catch and throw a football I didn’t want

to be the guy who did a movie saying

football could be dangerous

however doubts disappeared when he met

omala whose words about American ideals

touched the star to the core the movie’s

called concussion but it’s it’s really

about a whole lot more than that it’s

really about a man who was committed to

the truth and through his faith in his

God was able to make people’s lives

better you know so that was a deeply

inspiring Pursuit although the film did

not gain much popularity critics praised

Smith’s performance calling it sensitive

and understated in 2016 Smith played

Deadshot in the super villain team up

action film Suicide Squad turning down a

role in Independence Day Resurgence

which he said would have been like

clinging and clawing backwards however

although the film was a huge financial

success grossing over 700 million

dollars at the box office it received

negative reviews from critics later that

year Smith starred in David Frankel’s

drama collateral Beauty portraying a New

York Advertiser who falls into a deep

depression after a personal tragedy

during filming will learn that his

father was terminally ill he was given

six weeks every Sunday the son visited

Willard senior and supported him one day

after shooting one of the scenes at the

fantasy action film bright the director

David Iyer approached Smith and informed

him that his father had become worse

will immediately facetimed him it’s 2 am

in an empty downtown LA parking lot I

stand out of the brightest street light

I can find I want him to be able to see

me

we simply look at each other 20 minutes

of Silence

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they had one last laugh together

said goodbye and 45 minutes later

Willard senior passed away at his

father’s funeral will met Jada and they

decided to get back together

our time apart has helped us both to

discover the power of loving and freedom

Smith said we are simultaneously 100

bound together and 100 free we agreed

that we were both imperfect people doing

our best to figure out how to be in this

world joyfully what we needed from each

other was unconditional love and support

not judgment not punishment but total

unbending Devotion to each other’s

growth and well-being in the following

years Smith lived in harmony with his

family in 2018 he decided to try himself

in the Investments together with

football player kaisuke Honda will

started the Venture fund dreamers VC the

company invests in startups that solve

social problems but will didn’t forget

about movies either in 2019 he played

genie in the film adaptation of Disney’s

Aladdin directed by Guy Ritchie on the

Ellen talk show the actor told how he

found his character who was voiced by

Robin Williams in the cartoon

yeah Robin you know he he really smashed

this role he revolutionized you know

what you could do in these kinds of uh

of movies so I was listening and

listening and then uh I started playing

with the music and the music is where I

found my end and I was like oh I could

just use my sort of uh Fresh Prince

Persona the movie grossed more than one

billion dollars at the global box office

and became the star’s highest grossing

film surpassing Independence Day the

actor also appeared as an assassin who

confronted his younger clone in angley’s

Gemini man the film became a box office

bomb and received negative reviews later

that year Smith along with Tom Holland

voiced one of the main characters in the

cartoon spies in Disguise and in 2020 he

reunited with Martin Lawrence for the

third film in their franchise bad boys

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when I was 11 years old my father

decided he needed a new wall on the

front of his shop

this is how Smith’s autobiographical

book will co-written with Mark Manson

begins it is about a person’s desire to

find Inner Harmony to overcome

weaknesses and fears it is a

kaleidoscope of humor iridition wit

wisdom experience mistakes work on

personality love for oneself love for a

family and wild success after the book

was published in 2021 Oprah Winfrey was

so delighted with it that she invited

will for an interview to discuss its

main ideas and I saw I saw my book and

she had it marked up she literally had

the Post-it note

inside the book and it was

um you know it’s a little different than

my book in the same year the film King

Richard was released it describes the

life story of the two of the greatest

athletes in the world Venus and Serena

Williams There Will Smith played Richard

sister’s father and their first coach

the real Venus and Serena became the

film’s executive producers along with

her older sister Isha price according to

price their involvement helped keep the

film 100 real and act accurately portray

their father’s personality for King

Richard Smith was willing to sit in the

makeup chair for three hours to achieve

the desired look director Reynaldo

Marcus Green said that Smith and Warner

Bros initially had a makeup team put

Prosthetics on his face to make him look

like the real Richard they made him look

like Richard Williams it was straight up

shocking I was like look you guys did an

incredible job but I don’t want that

will has his acting coach who has been

with him for 30 movies he had a dialect

coach so he could speak similar to

Richard we have so much and it would

have been three hours of will being in

the makeup chair every day who wants to

do that Williams himself spoke warmly of

Smith in an interview with Good Morning

Britain the legendary Richard said I’ll

always stand by him I think he has done

the best that he needed to do Beyonce

was inspired to write a song for King

Richard called be alive speaking about

the powerful ballad Smith said the

marriage of a movie in a song is the

kind of magic that’s unmatched in

entertainment I was so happy when

Beyonce called

will admitted that he was scared to hear

what the sisters thought of the movie

so then I get to call that Venus and

Serena are walking into the theater to

see the film and it’s like it’s the

worst two hours you’re like the words

you spend so much time creating these

things and there’s literally only one

audience when you do I did it with you

know with uh Muhammad Ali and then with

uh Pursuit of Happiness and concussion

with people that were all alive yes

um and it’s just there’s that’s it’s the

only audience and you just hope to God

that you know you’ve spent a year to

tell this story and you hope that they

they like it and Venus and Serena cried

all the way through and they loved it

and one point fortunately they didn’t

just like the film they loved it and not

only them for his performance will won

an Oscar a Golden Globe award and a

Screen Actors Guild Award for best actor

and I accidentally touched his hand

and he stopped beating on me

he knocked me down his friends come over

they all start stomping them and beating

on me

however the Oscars that year had a

dramatic turn on on March 28th during

the presentation of the nominees and the

best documentary category comedian and

actor Chris Rock joked about the shaved

head of Jada Pinkett Smith who suffered

from partial baldness whether the

comedian knew about Pinkett Smith’s

disease is not known for sure the

actress reacted to the joke with obvious

displeasure and will decided to defend

his wife’s honor he walked up to the

stage and slapped Rock before returning

to his seat the ceremony continued as if

nothing had happened and Smith went on

the stage again about 40 minutes later

this time to receive the long-awaited

gold statuette in his speech he

apologized to the academy and the

nominees but not to Chris Rock

love will make you do crazy things

um

to my mother

a lot of this moment is really

complicated for me but to to my mother

um

she didn’t want to come out she had her

knitting friend she has a knitting crew

that she’s in Philly watching

watching with

um

um being able to love and care for my

mother and my family my wife

um I’m taking up too much time

thank you for this honor thank you for

this moment and thank you on behalf of

Richard and and oracine the entire

Williams family

um thank you uh hoping Academy invites

me back later that night Smith had fun

at the traditional Vanity Fair party

while the public suggested the

unpleasant accident soon Smith hadu

publicly apologized to the comedian who

in turn refused to file a police report

and did not provide any comments Jada

Pinkett Smith was also tight-lipped

calling this situation a healing period

on her Instagram at the same time the

academy made another statement that it

did not welcome violence and would not

allow it within its walls and began a

disciplinary investigation at the same

time the organizers of Oscar admitted

that they were completely unprepared for

what happened and behaved

inappropriately in this situation many

did not like that Will was not taken out

of the hall and the audience after this

unpleasant scene gave Smith a standing

ovation during his acceptance speech

however the actor was ahead of the

academy members and even before their

board meeting on his case announced that

he was leaving the academy calling his

actions shocking painful and

unforgivable all of us to all my fellow

nominees you know this is a community

it’s like I won because you you voted

for me and it it really breaks my heart

to have stolen and and tarnished

tarnished your moment due to Smith’s

prompt response the Oscar board of

directors had no choice but to announce

their decision Smith was removed from

all Academy events for 10 years

additionally several Studios have

shelved projects involving Smith

including Netflix and Sony which had bad

voice foreign development Smith’s

violent reaction to the failed joke

caused an even more violent reaction

from the public many were outraged by

this incident and the fact that it was

shown on television those who sharply

condemned the actor noted that he

completely deprived other nominees and

awardees of the opportunity to enjoy

their star hour and shifted the focus us

of attention from art to himself it is

worth noting that he was helped by

numerous mass media which were more

interested in covering the Scandal than

the awards also many rightly pointed out

that instead of slapping Rock Smith

could have mentioned the host’s

inappropriate joke in his acceptance

speech and condemn him for his

indiscretion moreover this was not the

first time that rock allowed himself not

very pleasant jokes about Pinkett Smith

instead the conversation shifted from

the actress and Rock’s argument to a

fight between the two men there were

also those who spoke and will support

and condemned the Academy’s verdict

considering its decision too harsh the

second participant of the incident Chris

Rock refused to comment on it for a long

time and only a year later the comedian

Finally Revealed his vision of the

situation in a stand-up performance

which was shown in a Netflix special

edition named Chris Rock selective rage

baby you will never see me on Oprah gal

crying

you will never see it

never gonna happen I couldn’t believe it

and I Love Men In Black who do you think

was right in this whole unpleasant

situation write in the comments well as

we can see Will Smith is a controversial

personality he adores his family but

often hurts relatives and Friends he

could not forgive his father for his

cruelty for a long time but he tries to

follow his guidelines all his life will

loves suffers loses and finds again his

whole path is not the path of a hero as

it might seem at first glance this is

the path of an ordinary person who with

the strength of his spirit and Titanic

work paved his way to World recognition

maybe we all have something to learn

from Will Smith don’t you think and if

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