According to Will Smith, Rihanna was lifted up by “Emancipation.”The Best Actor winner told E! News that the “Lift Me Up” singer “loved the cinematography” of the slave epic, helmed by Antoine Fuqua.“She could not get over the look of the film and how it felt,” Smith said.Rihanna attended a private screening of the feature in October 2022 with partner Aap Rocky, Tyler Perry, Dave Chappelle, and other A-listers.“The thing that’s great with Black people is they talk to the screen the whole time, so you don’t have to ask people’s opinion,” Smith added.
“So, I didn’t have to ask anybody’s opinion from the room.”The “King Richard” star noted that “Emancipation” is more timely now than ever, saying, “I feel like a lot of the patterns are starting to repeat themselves in America and the world today.
So, in terms of the timing,
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