In he released yet another album titled Lost and Found. In Smith stayed busy as the star of the feature film Ali , the story of heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali. His performance earned him his first Grammy nomination as an actor. Sequels to Men in Black in and Bad Boys in proved box-office hits. Smith followed these blockbusters with a starring role in Isaac Asimov's classic sci-fi adventure I, Robot.
In the film, Smith plays a skeptical police officer who "is basically Shaft, a black cop who wears lots of leather, earrings, a Mike Tyson gait, an ancient grudge and a face that says: 'I can't stand people's unquestioning faith in robots,' as James Christopher of the London Times put it in his review of I, Robot.
Smith switched gears in to star in the romantic comedy Hitch. In the film, Smith played a dating consultant who helped men woo the women of their dreams. Film Journal International found Smith the "perfect fit" for the role.
And Smith told People that "I am Hitch in my real life. Smith told TV Guide that his high confidence in himself helped him to leap from local notoriety to national celebrity while still a teenager. I'm the one who always takes the risks. You have to have faith in the power and believe it has your best interest at heart. That's how I was raised by my parents, and that's my bottom line. TV Guide , September October 5, , p. Will Smith , www. Found Success with Clean Rap Because their subject matter was not particularly controversial, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince were afforded greater opportunities to perform their work.
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Upscale , February , p. Henderson, and Sara Pendergast. However Jamie Foxx was cast instead. This is a real talent of his; he has shown on live TV that he can solve a Rubik's Cube in under 55 seconds. The Bridge on the River Kwai is his favorite movie. Recently purchased a home in south Stockholm, Sweden because he feels it is the best place to relax. He stayed at the famous Copacabana Palace Hotel.
Many of his hit films have featured actors from the Star Trek franchise. Made in America featured Whoopi Goldberg. Six Degrees of Separation featured J. Men in Black 3 featured Alice Eve. Made a private and unofficial deal with his father: his father would support his music career for one year, and if it didn't work out the way his father and Will wanted to, Will would have gone back to college.
Received a Tony award nomination in for Best Musical as part of the producing team of "Fela! Shares a birthday with Christopher Reeve and have both played superheroes. Reeve in Superman and Smith in Hancock Was the first choice to star as backup quarterback Willie Beaman in Any Given Sunday but was not interested in the role.
I would memorize the entire script, then I'd be lipping everybody's lines while they were talking. When I watch those episodes, it's disgusting.
My performances were horrible. On the change in his body that Ali's intense physical training required: "I'm human viagra. I'm Willagra. I'm a sex machine now. I'm raring to go every second of the day. My wife's loving it. The movie wasn't good. And it hurt so bad to be the No. I want to stop at five - when asked by Jules Asner about having more children. When I turned 28, everything clicked. I even got way better in bed. It's a whole different thing being an actor. A rapper is about being completely true to yourself.
Being an actor is about changing who you are. You make yourself a different person. You become a different person. You're so much stronger when your partner is strong.
I honestly believe there is no woman for me but Jada. Of all the women I've met - and there've been a few - no one can handle me the way Jada does. Once you feel someone locked in on you, it's no contest.
As fine as other women can be, as tempting sexually, I'm not going anywhere. This is it. I can't imagine what anyone else could offer.
I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood. I really believe that a man and a woman together, raising a family, is the purest form of happiness we can experience. If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. People laugh, but if I set my mind to it, within the next 15 years I would be president. My grandmother once told me, 'Don't let failure go to your heart and don't let success go to your head. That was the movie that put me into a space where the science fiction element was almost a spiritual connection for me.
I thought, if someone could imagine that and then put it on a screen and make me feel like that She has this powerful energy where she doesn't have to say anything, do anything, she can just stand there. Anything she's making, I'll be there" February I was always good at math. I probably would have been the guy who invented the remote control if I'd been around then.
When I started in movies, I said, 'I want to be the biggest movie star in the world. At that point, they were all special-effects movies. So Independence Day , no-brainer. Men in Black , no-brainer. I, Robot , no-brainer. I was thinking, 'How are my friends in Philly going to think about this? In a movie with actors and a director and writer of this caliber, for me to be the one bringing something cheesy to it This was a valuable lesson for me.
Either you do it or you don't. Give me a problem, I'll give you a solution. I just love living. That's a feeling you can't fake. I'm glad every single day. I think that even the camera can feel that I'm a happy man. Some guys pulled a knife on me and took my money when I was coming home from school.
Will was set to star in the thriller Brilliance , but he left the project to work on the Ridley Scott film Concussion. At the end of the year, Will starred the drama Collateral Beauty in which the character succumbs in a deep depression after a personal tragedy. Will also started his Youtube channel, which today has 8. Will also announced that he would start in the film Emancipation directed by Antoine Fuqua. To create these fantastic 3D photos, we used a smartphone app called LucidPix.
This no-cost app can take your regular photos and re-make them in immersive 3D. But I had no intention of going to college. It was followed in by And In This Corner Two years later, Smith began his crossover into acting. Drawing on his experiences with fledgling stardom, NBC signed Smith to headline a sitcom about a street-smart kid from Philadelphia who moves in with stuffy relatives in the posh Los Angeles neighborhood of Bel-Air.
Playing on his rapper persona, and at times featuring his friend Towne, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was a huge success that ran for six seasons. Shake the Room. Holding his own alongside Donald Sutherland , Stockard Channing and Ian McKellen , Smith played a street-wise gay hustler who cons his way through elite circles. Smith's first steps into superstardom came with his next film, Bad Boys The high-budget cop movie saw him team up with comic Martin Lawrence , breaking away from the Black-cop-white-cop formula that had been so successful for Beverly Hills Cop and the Lethal Weapon series.
The two Black leads proved an instant success and Smith — playing the smooth lady killer to Lawrence's clown — was established as leading man material. Smith next took on the epic sci-fi flick Independence Day , a role that confirmed him as a major player in Hollywood and the go-to guy for summer blockbusters. He played a pilot leading the counterattack against invading alien forces, and his comedic talents effortlessly transformed into the pithy one-liners all action heroes need to be able to drop while dispatching their enemies.
Smith fought aliens again in his next blockbuster, the comic sci-fi action film, Men in Black Smith rapped the theme song, and its inclusion on his solo album, Big Willie Style, brought the multi-talented actor more success. Despite the film's lackluster box-office performance, the track Smith cut for the film became a hit on his album, Willennium.
The golf movie The Legend of Bagger Vance was his next big film, with Smith playing the caddie to Matt Damon 's out-of-sorts swinger. The biopic Ali , based on boxing legend Muhammad Ali , gave Smith the opportunity to regain his big-screen swagger.
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