Will Smith’s path to movie stardom has not been typical.
The slap-heard-round-the-world occurred following an unfortunate joke that Rock made about Smith’s wife,Jada Pinkett Smith.
Making the entire thing even more bizarre, Smith just moments later went on to win his first Oscar.
The reason he was disappointed when one of his movies opened at No.
1
When a movie opens at No.
1 at the box office, it’s typically cause for celebration for that film’s stars.
“The movie wasn’t good,” Smith admitted.
“And it hurt so bad to be the No.
1 movie to open at $52 million and to know the moviewasn’t good.”
Ultimately, Smith said h felt he “cheated my audience” by releasing and promoting a terrible movie.
It’s a lesson that Smith appears to have taken to heart.
“So, I probably would’ve messed ‘The Matrix’ up.
I would’ve ruined it.”
Smith believes that “I did y’all a favor” in passing.
During anotherinterviewabout his drive, Smith put it even more bluntly.
“I will not be outworked period.”
To make his point, Smith used the example of exercising on a treadmill alongside a competitor.
“It’s really that simple.”
There are no cutaways or camera trickery involved; Smith solved the Rubik’s Cube by himself.
However, that wasn’t necessarily his plan.
The IRS responded by confiscating all Smith’s assets.
I saw her spit blood."
Smith was confronted with an opportunity for vengeance years later when his father was ill with cancer.
Wheeling his terminally ill father to the bathroom, Smith recalled pausing at the top of a staircase.
Smith’s fatherdiedin 2016.
It wasn’t until years later that they began dating.
Smith and Zampino divorced in 1995 (viaYouTube).
“That’s like our running joke.”
“We chose to boycott,” Smith toldEntertainment Tonight.
“We feel that it’s a slap in the face.”
To her, I’m the Antichrist."
“We’ve said such hateful things about each other, probably.
Ironically, his feelings of cowardice have also driven him to achieve ever-greater heights in his career.
“I never would’ve been able to talk about that while he was alive,” Smith admitted.
“I wanted to do what Eddie Murphy was doing.
Of course, that success didn’t just happen accidentally.
“You’re born with talent, and there are certain things that you just do naturally …
But skill is acquired through discipline.”
For her part, Pinkett Smith had previously opened up about herstruggles with alopecia(viaPage Six).
“I wasn’t invited.”
When asked about Rock’s mockery, reportedEntertainment Tonight, Pinkett Smith seemingly brushed it off.
“It comes with the territory,” she said.
As Smith explained, one of those visions involved his career evaporating before his eyes.
Bad trip or a legitimate premonition?
That’s open to interpretation.
