Will Smith Turns 55: His 13 Best Film Performances, From ‘Ali’ to ‘The Pursuit of Happyness’

EXCLUSIVE: The BFI London Film Festival closes Sunday with the world premiere of The Kitchen, a movie set in a dystopian London where an impoverished community is forced to fend for themselves in ramshackle apartment blocks. It marks the feature directorial debut of Oscar- winning actor Daniel Kaluuya and architect-turned-filmmaker Kibwe Tavares.

“Worthy,” which hits shelves on Oct. 17.In snippets of the interview shared Thursday, Pinkett Smith revealed she and her husband Will Smith, 55, have been separated for the past seven years — even when he told Chris Rock to keep his “wife’s f–cking name out” of his mouth at the 2022 Oscars. “First of all, I’m really shocked, because mind you, I’m not there.

Shucked, the pun-filled, corn-fed comedy that surprised critics (favorably) and early on seemed destined to become a sleeper hit, will play its final performance at Broadway‘s Nederlander Theatre on Sunday, January 14, 2024, producers have announced.

Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith have one of Hollywood’s most famous marriages. The two are some of the leading actors in the industry, with each building a career that stands on its own. Their children are also very talented and have grown under the public spotlight, managing to showcase their individuality through various forms.

Jada Pinkett Smith has addressed her husband Will Smith’s Oscar slap last year for the first time in a new interview.Speaking to People, Jada addressed the incident at the 2022 Oscars where her husband Will slapped Chris Rock onstage, explaining how she initially thought it was a “skit”.“I was like, ‘there’s no way that Will hit him,’” she said. “It wasn’t until Will started to walk back to his chair that I even realised it wasn’t a skit.”Following the incident, Will apologised on numerous occasions and resigned from the Academy.

Will Smith for the past seven years.Ahead of her upcoming memoir Worthy, Jada, who has been married to Will since 1997, shared that the couple have been living separately since 2016 in an interview with NBC’s Today.Speaking about the reason behind the split, Jada said: “I think we were both kind of just still stuck in our fantasy of what we thought the other person should be.”She explained that they had considered divorcing but she hasn’t been able to go through with it, adding: “I made a promise that there will never be a reason for us to get a divorce. We will work through… whatever.

Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith have been separated for seven years, the actress has revealed in a revealing new interview. Jada, 52, opened up about her marriage to actor Will, 55, in interviews with PEOPLE and NBC News as she continues to promote her new memoir, which is titled Worthy.The mum-of-two said she and Will have been separated since 2016 but are yet to seek a divorce as they are "still figuring out" their future together. Speaking to Hoda Kotb on the Today Show, Jada said: "By the time we got to 2016, we were just exhausted with trying.

Willow Smith is sharing a throwback. The daughter of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith has shared a video on her Instagram, showing off her bass and vocal skills on a stunning Earth, Wind, and Fire cover.Willow Smith breaks silence on Will Smith’s Oscars slap: ‘I love and accept my family’A timeline of Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith & August Alsina’s relationshipA post shared by ∴ W ∴ (@willowsmith)The video shows Smith with her hair braided and held together in a bun as she plays the bass and provides back up vocals to a recording of Earth, Wind and Fire’s “Reasons.” She’s wearing an orange top with some colorful patterns on it and some black pants. She captioned the post simply, with some emojis of a planet Earth, the wind, and some fire.

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Will Smith is another year older.

Tupac Shakur lip-syncing to a song by Will Smith in the late ’80s.Pinkett Smith, an actress and talk show host, is married to actor and musician Smith. She was close friends with late rapper Shakur at high school in Baltimore, and was filmed doing the cover several years before she met Smith on the set of The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air.The TV star published a brief excerpt from her upcoming memoir Worthy on Instagram, in which she wrote about the moment when she, Shakur and Smith collided.She included the clip of herself and Shakur dancing to ‘Parents Just Don’t Understand’, the 1988 Grammy-winning hit that Smith wrote as one-half of the duo DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince.A post shared by Jada Pinkett Smith (@jadapinkettsmith)“Not in a million years would I have dreamed that the Fresh Prince and I would become, um, very acquainted,” Pinkett Smith wrote in her post.

Quentin Tarantino’s next film, joining his Pulp Fiction co-star Samuel L. Jackson on the rumoured cast list.According to Hollywood insider Jeff Sneider (via World Of Reel), Travolta is set to have a role in The Movie Critic.

Chris Rock sought counselling after being slapped by Will Smith at the 2022 Oscars.Speaking to People to promote her memoir – which features a foreword written by Rock – Jones said: “That shit was humiliating. It really affected him. People need to understand his daughters, his parents, saw that.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Leslie Jones told People magazine while promoting her new memoir, “Leslie F*cking Jones,” that her longtime friend Chris Rock went to counseling after Will Smith slapped him at the 2022 Academy Awards. Rock wrote the foreword to Jones’ new book. “That shit was humiliating.

Will Smith’s infamous Oscars slap in March 2022 — according to Leslie Jones.“That s—t was humiliating. It really affected him.

EXCLUSIVE: Director Tarsem Singh thought of his own sainted mother as he tried to understand why a Canadian woman of Indian heritage would plot to have her daughter abducted then murdered. 

At this point, we’re almost two years removed from Will Smith‘s infamous on-stage slap of host Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars ceremony. So why is Sean Penn still talking about it? Well, it’s partially to drum up hype for his upcoming doc about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who wasn’t allowed to speak about Russian’s invasion of his country at the Academy Awards that year.

Will Smith‘s slap at last year’s Oscars.In a recent cover story for Variety, the Oscar-winning actor questioned why his peers stood and applauded Smith’s Best Actor win for Kind Richard, just moments after he walked onto the stage and slapped host Chris Rock for making a joke about Jada Pinkett-Smith’s hair.Smith, who is subsequently serving an Oscars ban until 2032, has apologised for his outburst numerous times.“I don’t know Will Smith. I met him once.

Sean Penn was truly angered by Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars.

Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars, the notoriously hot-tempered Sean Penn is questioning why he was jailed for a similar incident.“I don’t know Will Smith. I met him once,” Penn, 63, told Variety in a new interview. He seemed very nice when I met him.