Will Smith took to an award stage for the first time since those Oscars
“It’s really difficult to transport a modern mind to that time period. It’s difficult to imagine that, that level of inhumanity,” he continued. Smith specifically recalled one scene, wherein a white cast member spontaneously spat on his chest as part of a particularly charged scene.
“If I had pearls on, I definitely would’ve clutched them,” Smith said of the spit-take. “I wanted to say, ‘Antoineeeeee,’ but I stopped, and I realized that Peter couldn’t have called the director.”He continues: “I just held in that moment, and there was a part — it makes me teary right now — there was a part of me that was grateful that I got tounderstand. And then, in the distance, I hear a voice, and Antoine says, ‘Hey, let’s do a take without the spit.
Concluding his speech, Smith took a moment to shout out Apple, who he says “never flinched” on their support of the film despite a seemingly ballooning budget.“It was the first time I had heard from a studio that the story was more important than how much it costs to get it done, so then we added some more stuff that we wanted,” Smith said. “They make iPhones. They can do it.”
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