Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2021 15:50:28 GMT
Will Smith is currently filming the slavery drama “Emancipation” in New Orleans. Directed by Antoine Fuqua and backed by Apple with a reported $120 million budget, the film stars Smith as a slave named Peter who flees a Louisiana plantation after being nearly whipped to death. The film tracks Peter’s journey north, where he eventually joins the Union Army and returns to the south to save those he left behind. Smith has never tackled slavery in a film before, and he told GQ magazine that was by design.
“I’ve always avoided making films about slavery,” Smith said. “In the early part of my career…I didn’t want to show Black people in that light. I wanted to be a superhero. So I wanted to depict Black excellence alongside my white counterparts. I wanted to play roles that you would give to Tom Cruise.”
It wasn’t until an offer came in from Quentin Tarantino to play the eponymous character in “Django Unchained” that Smith seriously considered joining a slavery-centered project for the first time. Smith famously turned Tarantino down, telling GQ, “I didn’t want to make a slavery film about vengeance.”
Source: www.google.com/amp/s/www.indiewire.com/2021/09/will-smith-rejected-tarantino-django-vengeance-story-1234667555/amp/
I personally like what he said. He didn’t want to make a slavery film about vengeance. He would rather make films where black and white people are side by side. That’s powerful.
“I’ve always avoided making films about slavery,” Smith said. “In the early part of my career…I didn’t want to show Black people in that light. I wanted to be a superhero. So I wanted to depict Black excellence alongside my white counterparts. I wanted to play roles that you would give to Tom Cruise.”
It wasn’t until an offer came in from Quentin Tarantino to play the eponymous character in “Django Unchained” that Smith seriously considered joining a slavery-centered project for the first time. Smith famously turned Tarantino down, telling GQ, “I didn’t want to make a slavery film about vengeance.”
Source: www.google.com/amp/s/www.indiewire.com/2021/09/will-smith-rejected-tarantino-django-vengeance-story-1234667555/amp/
I personally like what he said. He didn’t want to make a slavery film about vengeance. He would rather make films where black and white people are side by side. That’s powerful.
