Will Smith Makes The First Appearance Since Last Year's Academy Awards

BY HotTopic24 Image Credit: Instagram/@willsmith

Will Smith appeared at an event for the first time since he slapped Chris Rock at the 2022 Academy Awards.

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Will Smith received an award at AAFCA and gives his first speech since 2022.

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Will Smith said Emancipation was his most difficult personal movie.

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He also shared some funny anecdotes from the shoot on the stage.

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On the second day of shooting it was 110 degrees out and I had to shoot a scene with a white actor.

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I did my line, he did his line. Then he spits on my chest.

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Everything was going fine. We do this scene again. I do my line, he does his. He again spits on my chest.

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Then a voice is heard. Antony says let's do something without spitting. At that moment I realized that God is real.

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