Why wouldn’t these work? Maybe it had nothing to do with him. But choosing each of these films must’ve seemed logical for the actor: He had just spent 10-plus years testing his own star power and passing the test each time. It’s easy to pin the bad reviews or poor performance of these films on Smith. Night Shyamalan at the helm, and should have theoretically worked. Bright had the backing of Netflix, and it came at a moment when its director, David Ayer, had just proven himself with back-to-back successes with End of Watch and Fury. Gemini Man, a big-budget thriller, was directed by acclaimed director Ang Lee. 2017’s Bright, a Netflix film, was widely panned, as was 2019’s Gemini Man.īut the most compelling thing about all these failures is that on paper, all of them actually appear like safe bets. There’s Focus, a movie you haven’t heard of until you read this sentence. There’s 2016’s Collateral Beauty, which managed to earn a Rotten Tomatoes score only four points higher than After Earth, coming in at a dismal 15%. That was the year After Earth was released - a film costarring his son Jaden that led one critic to ask, “ Is After Earth the worst movie ever made?”
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Starting in 2013, Smith has been plagued with a series of career failures. Keep this in mind as you consider that his lows have been not just disappointments but, occasionally, catastrophes. Not Smith - he is trying to meet the moment, and to do so, he’s on an all-out mission to master the language of modern celebrity. Most of the men who became household names at the turn of the century are content to coast on the old ways of being famous. We once held celebrities at a distance and in high regard. A byproduct of ’90s celebrity culture, he is attempting something few men of his generation of stars have done: reinventing himself publicly, to align with the contemporary expectations of celebrity. He is a heavy contender for the upcoming Oscar race, and it's generally a good strategy to keep the Academy voters’ attention on you.īut Smith might have a shrewder plan. His performance in Richard is the best acting he has done in years it’s impossible to take your eyes off of him as he disappears into the role. Its release coincides with the peak of his press cycle for his latest film, King Richard, where he plays the legendary Richard Williams, father of Venus and Serena Williams. What’s all this for? The obvious answer is promotion: Smith just released a tell-all memoir titled, simply, Will. He’s been confessional like never before. He’s been making vaguely entertaining TikToks. He’s been sharing his struggles with marriage, fatherhood, and body image. He’s been sharing his wounds, the things that make him human. He hovered above us, and we projected our hopes and dreams onto him.īut lately, Smith has been coming down to our level. He was always unruffled, the Platonic ideal of a celebrity: His face adorned magazines and movie posters, smiling confidently, revealing nothing. He was so good at his job that by 2009, he was voted Hollywood’s most bankable star. He turned 2008’s Hancock into a box office smash for Christ’s sake. Now, it seems I can’t eject out of the conversation fast enough.Īt the peak of his power, a formidable reign that spanned from 1996’s Independence Day to 2008’s Seven Pounds, nearly anything Smith touched turned to gold. Before we entered this overshare phase, it’s actually hard to think about what we really knew about him. Not just because of the salacious and utterly bizarre nature of what Smith is revealing about his private life, but because it’s a drastic break in the long-established celebrity relationship we’ve had with Smith. Driver, stop this bus, I’m done.īut regardless of the mercy you may be begging for, it’s fascinating that we now know this stuff.
This week, we learned that Smith dealt with being cheated on by his first girlfriend by having so much sex that it made him gag, and at times vomit, as a “psychosomatic reaction” to an orgasm. Folks! In fact, speaking of satisfaction, there was this one time when Smith was so focused on her pleasure that he was either going to satisfy her or die trying. Huh? No, wait, actually she is totally satisfied. At some point, he wanted a “harem of girlfriends.” Go off! We’ve learned that sometimes Jada is maybe not 100% satisfied with their sex life. We’ve learned Will Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, have an open marriage, and sometimes it’s hard. In the last few months, and especially in the last few weeks, we’ve learned entirely too much. Perhaps you’re on your knees, hands clasped, eyes set toward the sky, begging: Please, Lord, let me not find out any more unsolicited information about Will Smith’s sex life. Perhaps you’re like me, and you’re waving the white flag.
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