Will Smith says a frank conversation with his 9-year-old nephew brought a moment of clarity.
As for what he learned from all of this, Smith said it's"that we just got to be nice to each other, man."-- a project that was considered to be another path to him winning an Oscar -- ahead of its release in early December., Smith acknowledged that his actions could hurt the reaction to the Antoine Fuqua-directed film.
"The only discomfort my heart has around that is that so many people have done spectacular work on this film," he said."My hope is that my team isn't penalized at all for my actions.
The drama was inspired by the haunting 1863 images of"Whipped Peter," a slave who escaped the Deep South only to return and fight for the freedom of his friends and family as a soldier in the Union Army."I had seen the image of Whipped Peter as a child, but as his story started to come into focus, I was moved in all of the most beautiful ways," Smith said.
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