Will Smith told Kevin Hart on a new episode of Peacock’s “Hart to Heart” talk show that he “went too far” as an actor while portraying a slave in the Apple drama “Emancipation.” The film, Smith’s first release after the notorious Oscars slap, centered on the true story of a runaway slave named Peter, a photograph of whom became a rallying call for the abolition of slavery as it depicted his mutilated back scars from several whippings.“I went too far in ‘Emancipation,’” Smith said.
“Just bringing it up, I start to get teary.
I wanted to feel the degradation of slavery, and I went too far in.
That level of human brutality… I had the chains on my neck and we were working.
I wanted the real weight of them.
I wanted real chains.
They put it on my neck and they were fitting it for size…
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