Although some advise against working with animals, Will Smith is fondly remembering his time with man’s best co-star. The Academy Award winner reminisced about his canine scene partner Abbey from the 2007 movie I Am Legend being “a brilliant actress” as he admitted to trying to adopt the German Shepherd, who was known for upstaging him in the blockbuster. “It was like Abbey spoke English. … Like, she literally could understand you, it was the weirdest thing,” recalled Smith on the latest episode of Hot Ones.
Unfortunately, he wasn’t able to take Abbey home as she “was the breadwinner of her family, and she had to stay,” Smith told host Sean Evans.
Loosely based on the 1954 novel by Richard Matheson, Smith starred in I Am Legend as US Army virologist Robert Neville, who’s the last living human in New York, which has been overrun by nocturnal mutants.
While trying to formulate a cure for the virus, Neville’s only companion is his dog Sam (Abbey). Recounting a heartbreaking scene in which Sam becomes infected and Neville has to overtake her, Smith said, “Abbey’s doing that.
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