Among confessions, revelations and anecdotes in Jada Pinkett Smith’s book Worthy the memoirs formed the basis of her cult online show, Conversation at the red table. The show was canceled last year due to the end of all original programming on Facebook Watch.
But with endless material and a need for a new home, Pinkett Smith and her team are now looking for another distributor.
“I can’t say right now, but we’re definitely planning on coming back,” she told The Messenger in an exclusive interview.
Conversation at the red table was born as part of a Mother’s Day special in which Pinkett Smith, her mother Adrienne Banfield Norris and daughter Willow were recorded sharing important life stories.
“By sharing this widely, I hoped to encourage other mothers to overcome their fear of telling their stories to their daughters and perhaps inspire them to have their own intergenerational conversations on their own terms,” she writes in Worthy.
Pinkett Smith originally intended this special to be a one-off. Although she received offers to turn the special into a show, the 52-year-old chose to wait due to the timing and age of Willow.
Five years later, she decided to take a closer look at the show before partnering with Facebook, which offered a “great deal” that “also allowed us to retain ownership of the brand.”
The show aired for five seasons, covering a variety of topics, and featured celebrities such as Constance Wu, Serena and Venus Williams, Kevin Hart and Leah Remini. It was also a place where the actress and her husband Will Smith could clear up the infamous “entanglement” rumors and discuss the status of their relationship.
Pinkett Smith continued: “…We loved doing it, although when we did the Facebook deal, we had no idea it would become our day job. We never suspected how successful it would be.”
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