![]() ![]() His career is defined by his power to pivot: rap to television, television to film. And he didn’t just dabble in film: He became a bonafide movie star-making him one of the highest-paid actors in Hollywood. He turned an impromptu audition in Quincy Jones’ living room into Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, a sitcom that has spent nearly 30 years in syndication. His persona (no matter how wholesome) was based on his ability to win. ![]() “A carefully crafted and honed character designed to protect myself, to hide myself from the world-to hide the coward.” The word “coward” seemed harsh. “What you’ve come to understand as Will Smith, the alien annihilating emcee, bigger-than-life movie star, is largely a construction,” Smith says on his new YouTube documentary, Best Shape of My Life. For Black children of the 90s, Will Smith feels like the uncle who has it all-which is exactly what he wanted us to think.
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