Will Smith doesn’t need his Oscars slap to alter the narrative round his new movie.
The actor hopes the extremely publicized incident at March’s ceremony doesn’t have an effect on the success of the upcoming “Emancipation,” he instructed Entertainment Weekly.
“The only discomfort my heart has around that is that so many people have done spectacular work on this film. My hope is that my team isn’t penalized at all for my action,” Smith mentioned in an interview revealed Monday.
“I definitely lose a couple winks of sleep every night thinking that I could have potentially penalized my team, but I’m going to do everything I can to make sure that everyone gets seen in the light that they deserve.”
Directed by Antoine Fuqua, “Emancipation” is predicated on a real story and stars Smith, 54, as an enslaved man who joined the Union Army after escaping a Louisiana plantation in the course of the Civil War.
Premiering Friday in choose theaters and Dec. 9 on Apple TV+, the film is Smith’s first since he slapped comic Chris Rock on the 2022 Oscars over a joke concerning the shaved head of his spouse, Jada Pinkett Smith, who suffers from the hair-loss situation alopecia.
Smith was banned from the Academy Awards for the subsequent 10 years because of the incident.
He apologized a number of occasions for the slap, together with throughout his Oscars acceptance speech after successful finest actor for his portrayal of Venus and Serena Williams’ father within the tennis drama “King Richard.”
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