There was also some carbonated lemonade involved.
“He just had an eye.
I didn’t want to makePursuit of Happyness, I didn’t want to makeAli,” Smith recalls.
Kevin Hart and Will Smith on ‘Hart to Heart’.Peacock
Both film garnered him Best Actor Oscar nominations.
“[Lassiter] pickedMen in Black,” Smith continues.
So I didn’t want to make two alien movies back to back."
Kevin Hart on ‘Hart to Heart’.Peacock
Hart, like all of us, wonders why Smith changed his mind.
“Steven Spielberg sent a helicopter for me,” Smith answers a dumbstruck Hart.
It landed at his house.
Will Smith on ‘Hart to Heart’.Peacock
And he had me at ‘Hello.'"
Well, at hello and at the first sip of some fizzy lemonade.
“And it was the first time I ever had lemonade with carbonated water,” Smith adds.
Kevin Hart on ‘Hart to Heart’.Peacock
“Yeah, it’s possible for you to’t say no to that,” Hart concedes.
“And you had to act like you had it before.”
You know I madeE.T.'"
Kevin Hart and Will Smith on ‘Hart to Heart’.Peacock
For that film, there was no helicopter and no carbonated lemonade in influencing Smith’s decision.
Rather, he points to a20/20piece on Gardner he saw after reading the script.
He credits the news program for helping him find the structure of the story.
And then he met Gardner himself.
“There’s something about human beings who have suffered.
Chris Gardner is one of those people,” Smith says.
“He took me to the bathroom in Oakland where he had to sleep with his son.
“I work to grow.
I work to meet people.
I work to expand and to evolve.”
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