Will Smith, show host Show “Heart to Heart” Kevin Hart has revealed some details about his career. Among them is the feeling that he immersed himself too deeply in the role during filming. emancipation2022 film directed by Antoine Fuqua.
emancipation tells the story of Peter (Smith), a slave on the run from a plantation. The actor talks about the role:
Just the memory of it makes me cry. I wanted to feel the degradation of slavery and overdid it. It’s like seeing the level of human cruelty that we are capable of with each other.
Recall one episode. The moment the crew members couldn’t take off the chains he wore around his neck to set up the scene:
I said, “I want to feel real weight, put real weight on me. I want real chains. So they took these old chains and put them around my neck, and they fixed them, and I stood there, and the prop man tried to put the key in, but it didn’t work. And I’m like, “Oh no. Will, relax. And I was there, and they ran and could not release me. I was in these chains, one step away from hyperventilating.
Fortunately, everything turned out for the best. Despite the ordeal, Will Smith will never return, admitting that this movie changed him a lot.
I would not return. It was one of the greatest experiences I have ever had as an actor. Peter introduced me to God, my faith was strengthened after working on this film.
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SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter