After a series of statements and sporadic public appearances, Will Smith made his comeback by appearing on a TV show where he continued to talk about the famous Oscar night controversy, when he slapped Chris Rock.
In an interview with The Daily Show with Trevor Noahtaking advantage of the context to promote his new historical drama, emancipationSmith started by making everyone smile and insinuating where this was coming from.
“I’ve been away”said Will Smith, drawing laughter from the crowd as the topic of his absence – from almost everywhere – for the past few months arose. Variety plays the televised bout with good vibes, recounting that Smith, getting a little serious, picked up the glove: “It was a horrible night…”
“A horrible night, as anyone can imagine. There were many nuances and complexities. But in the end, it’s just…”
Smith continued, “I was going through something that night. Not that that justifies my behavior at all… Actually, I think it was a lot of things. He was the little boy (himself) who saw his father hit his mother, and it all came out of that moment. But that’s not who I want to be…”
“I love Chris. I’m friends with him. I love you, but this is a mess… I know black people, black people come together and say: “What did Will do? What the hell happened?’ A lot of black people were like, ‘I should go to jail.'”
“You need to relax,” Noah interrupted, earning laughter from Smith and the audience. “Some people they overreactedwhich caused other people to underreact as well,” the actor continued.
Smith shared an anecdote in the aftermath of Oscar night, when he was already on everyone’s lips and had to address the matter in his most secret privacy.
“I was gone. that night was horrible. My nephew is nine years old. He is the sweetest boy in the world. We returned home. He had stayed up late to see his uncle Will. What is certain is that we are sitting in the kitchen and he is on my lap and he says to me: ‘Why did you hit that man, Uncle Will?’ Damn!!”.
his new movie
Smith also spoke emancipation. Based on true events, the film casts Smith as a runaway slave who becomes known to the world as Peter the Whipped from the number of scars on his back from the extreme brutality of slavery.
“Seeing that image for the first time was one of the things that really excited me about exploring this role, because you see the image, but you don’t know who it is. You don’t know what the story is,” Smith said.
“American slavery was one of the more brutal aspects of the history of humanity itself… It is really very difficult, intolerable to understand the level of cruelty that human beings are capable of. My daughter asked me: “Dad, do we really need another slave movie?” I said: “Daby, I promise you, I wouldn’t make a movie about slaves. This is a film about freedom‘”.
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Source: Clarin
