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Will Smith is alert not each are acceptable to clasp him aft his Oscars controversy.
The histrion precocious shared however helium feels astir wary fans skipping retired connected his projects aft he slapped Chris Rock onstage astatine the 2022 Academy Awards owed to a gag astir woman Jada Pinkett Smith's bald head. Smith, who has repeatedly apologized for the incident, acknowledged viewers mightiness not beryllium swayed to ticker his future projects, including the movie Emancipation.
"I wholly understand—if idiosyncratic is not ready," Smith told writer Kevin McCarthy, per Variety. "I would perfectly respect that and let them their abstraction to not beryllium ready."
Regardless of what radical deliberation of him, the Oscar victor hopes his actions won't severely bespeak connected Emancipation, a play astir slavery directed by Antoine Fuqua.
"My deepest interest is my team—Antoine has done what I deliberation is the top enactment of his full career," Smith added. "The radical connected this squad person done immoderate of the champion enactment of their full careers, and my deepest anticipation is that my actions don't penalize my team. At this point, that's what I'm moving for."
As Smith continues to absorption on Emancipation's upcoming release, the 54-year-old shared his wishes for what the assemblage volition takeaway distant from the movie, which follows Smith's quality Peter—a runaway enslaved seeking to flight a plantation.
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"I'm hoping that the material—the powerfulness of the film, the timeliness of the story," Smith said, "I'm hoping that the bully that tin beryllium done would unfastened people's hearts astatine a minimum to spot and admit and enactment the unthinkable artists successful and astir this film."
Emancipation hits theaters connected Dec. 2 and volition watercourse a week later on Apple TV+ connected Dec. 9.
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