Apple Original Films finally unveiled to Hollywood tonight the Will Smith movie Emancipation at The Regency Village Theatre in Westwood. The pic, in which Smith plays a runaway slave, Peter, who em…
The pic, in which Smith plays a runaway slave, Peter, who embarks on a death-defying 10-day journey to escape his captors through swamps to a safe haven with the Union army, has long been buzzed a role that would rival the actor’s Oscar winning turn this past year as Venus and Serena Williams coach father Richard Williams inWhile Smith’s scandal with Chris Rock at the Oscars put the pic’s release in question earlier this year, a greatly received early NAACP-hosted screening in DC paved the way...
Talking about how cathartic it is for the Antoine Fuqua directed movie to finally be unveiled in the wake of a roller coaster year, Smith told Deadline, “When I took this film, I envisioned the potential service it could be to the modern social conversation.” “To have a movie like this, in this time for me, and even this time in my life is poetic perfection,” he beamed tonight on the red carpet.
“I had seen the picture, but as I got to know Peter and understand some of the experiences of Peter, the way he was able to sustain faith in the heart of greatest unimaginable human atrocities.”
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