Will Smith screened the film Emancipation with an audience for the first time at a private event on Saturday (October 1) in Washington D.C.
The 53-year-old actor participated in a conversation with director Antoine Fuqua and Mary Elliott, curator of American Slavery at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Click inside to read more… “Throughout my career, I’ve turned down many films that were set in slavery,” Will said at the screening. “I never wanted to show us like that.
And then this picture came along. And this is not a film about slavery. This is a film about freedom. This is a film about resilience.
This is a film about faith.” “This is a film about the heart of a man — what could be called the first viral image,” Will continued. “Cameras had just been created, and the image of whipped Peter went around the world.
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