Will Smith opens up about his rough childhood: ‘My father mistreated my mother, but he was also one of the best men I ever knew’ – movie news

“When my father passed away, I felt I was finally free to tell what my childhood and life really was like,” Will Smith says of his book. Will-ya Available in Spain – as a guest in ant nest. To the audience, the actor has always been that cheerful and charismatic person we see on both the big and small screens. In our minds, it never ceases to be a will Prince of Bel Air The fact is that in addition to sharing his personality, he has in common with his character a difficult childhood that he now tells openly.

“My father assaulted my mother, but at the same time, he was also one of the best men I ever knew.. This is a struggle that really hits you because you think: Shouldn’t you hate someone who abuses your mother? Smith says on Pablo Motos Show “It has taken me years to be able to address this division of the world facing similar situations. This prevents you and prevents you from achieving your goals in life. It is your traumas that prevent you from achieving the career that you pursue.”

This thinking fits well with his latest work as an actor. Will Smith is also promoting Williams method, a biography of the childhoods of Venus and Serena Williams. Much has been said about how strict the father of tennis players was and how he taught them the only way to succeed in the sport. Although he used a strict discipline, Smith believes that what really happened is not what people think. “Anything you want to achieve in life is as amazing as what Venus and Serena can achieve without a lot of hard work.”Announcing the actor.

To revive the character, Smith performed an exercise in meditation and looked at his father. “Richard Williams looked a lot like my dad. The two grew up after World War II. African Americans who grew up in the United States at that time grew up in very special and similar circumstances.”

My father was a military man and taught us to obey orders. Although Richard Williams had his own goals in his children’s dreams, he knew how to relax a little in this search to give his daughters the margin to create the life they wanted to create. This is the main difference

as an account in will, the actor’s father, William Carol Smith, systematically abused his mother, Caroline Bright, and terrorized the family. In the pages of his autobiography, he says, “The same extreme perfectionism that terrified his family was the one who was able to put food on the table every night of my life.” But he also attended his plays, his movie premieres, and listened to all his recordings… For these reasons, the actor says he’s torn between the monster that was in the house and how awesome he is in other aspects.

Anyway, the discipline he received helped him thrive and become the movie and music star that he is today. The Eternal Prince of Bel-Air has been a success for 30 years and not only has his level of fame waned, but increased over the years. In an interview with Pablo Mutos, he admitted how different fame was when he was a musician and TV actor than it was when he started starring in movies. “after Independence Day It was the first time someone called me Mr. Smith on the street. It was like that up until that point, when I was making music and I was on TV. Suddenly I became Mr. Smith.”

Williams method Opens in Spanish cinemas on Friday, January 21st.

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