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2023-03-03 14:51:40 UTC
Actor Will Smith claimed during an awards show this week that a white actor
spit on him while filming Emancipation for Apple TV+.
Smith was given the Beacon Award while appearing at the 14th annual African
American Film Critics Association Awards. The award is given to a film that
serves as an example for other movies to follow, said AAFCAs Gil L.
Robertson.
Emancipation was the most individual difficult film of my entire career,
Smith said. Its really difficult to transport a modern mind to that time
period. Its difficult to imagine that, that level of inhumanity.
Smith claimed that he was not supposed to be spit on during the scene and
that the actor just decided to do it. Smith did not name the actor.
It was the second day of shooting and 110 degrees, he said. I was in a
scene with one of the white actors, and we had our lines, and the actor
decided to ad-lib. So, were doing the scene. I did my line. He did his line.
And then he ad-libbed and spit in the middle of my chest. If I had pearls on,
I definitely wouldve clutched them. I wanted to say, Antoine, but I
stopped, and I realized that Peter couldnt have called the director.
I sat there, and I took a deep breath, and we did take two, and the actor
felt that the ad-lib had gone well. So, we do take two. I do my line. He does
his line and spits in the middle of my chest again. I just held in that
moment, and there was a part it makes me teary right now there was a part
of me that was grateful that I got to really understand. And then, in the
distance, I hear a voice, and Antoine says, Hey, lets do a take without the
spit. And in that moment, I knew that God was real.
Will Smith talks about being spit on during the filming of
EMANCIPATION while accepting the Beacon Award with Antoinw
Fuqua at the African American Film Critics Association Awards
(AAFCA).. @Variety @theaafca
Watch the full video on my TIKTOK. pic.twitter.com/eKYE89y6mX
Clayton Davis (@ByClaytonDavis) March 2, 2023
[Was them name of the man who spat on you George Glass?]
--
Let's go Brandon!
spit on him while filming Emancipation for Apple TV+.
Smith was given the Beacon Award while appearing at the 14th annual African
American Film Critics Association Awards. The award is given to a film that
serves as an example for other movies to follow, said AAFCAs Gil L.
Robertson.
Emancipation was the most individual difficult film of my entire career,
Smith said. Its really difficult to transport a modern mind to that time
period. Its difficult to imagine that, that level of inhumanity.
Smith claimed that he was not supposed to be spit on during the scene and
that the actor just decided to do it. Smith did not name the actor.
It was the second day of shooting and 110 degrees, he said. I was in a
scene with one of the white actors, and we had our lines, and the actor
decided to ad-lib. So, were doing the scene. I did my line. He did his line.
And then he ad-libbed and spit in the middle of my chest. If I had pearls on,
I definitely wouldve clutched them. I wanted to say, Antoine, but I
stopped, and I realized that Peter couldnt have called the director.
I sat there, and I took a deep breath, and we did take two, and the actor
felt that the ad-lib had gone well. So, we do take two. I do my line. He does
his line and spits in the middle of my chest again. I just held in that
moment, and there was a part it makes me teary right now there was a part
of me that was grateful that I got to really understand. And then, in the
distance, I hear a voice, and Antoine says, Hey, lets do a take without the
spit. And in that moment, I knew that God was real.
Will Smith talks about being spit on during the filming of
EMANCIPATION while accepting the Beacon Award with Antoinw
Fuqua at the African American Film Critics Association Awards
(AAFCA).. @Variety @theaafca
Watch the full video on my TIKTOK. pic.twitter.com/eKYE89y6mX
Clayton Davis (@ByClaytonDavis) March 2, 2023
[Was them name of the man who spat on you George Glass?]
--
Let's go Brandon!