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Will Smith is getting his caput backmost successful the crippled pursuing his arguable Oscars slap successful March. The 54-year-old histrion posed with the Los Angeles Lakers connected Oct. 26 aft giving them a code astir overcoming hardships, which the squad thanked him for connected their authoritative Instagram page. “Huge convey you to Will Smith, who joined the squad to sermon spot done togetherness, and practicing gratitude successful times of large challenge,” the caption read. “All themes successful his forthcoming masterpiece film, Emancipation.” In the photo, seen here, Will smiled wide arsenic helium stood with the squad and held up a yellowish Lakers jersey with his past sanction embroidered crossed the backmost successful purple lettering.
The representation was followed by others showing Will shooting immoderate hoops, posing with the Lakers’ owner, Jeanie Buss, and grinning successful beforehand of a enactment of glistening NBA champion trophies. Will besides shared a slideshow of snapshots from the sojourn and a video successful which helium reminded fans that helium hasn’t forgotten astir Philadelphia, his hometown. “I’m precise excited, you know, to beryllium here, you know, with each of their trophies and it’s conscionable important to accidental that there’s not a trophy from 1983, okay? Okay, due to the fact that that’s the twelvemonth that Julius Erving led the Sixers to a win,” helium smiled. “I’m present supporting, but y’all cognize what I’m talking about.” Of course, the Sixers is Philadelphia’s pro hoops team.
Will Smith attended the 2022 Oscars, and is not invited backmost for astatine slightest 10 years pursuing his behaviour (Photo: Stephen Lovekin/Shutterstock)“Gave a sneak peek of #Emancipation to the @lakers and had a GREAT convo astir the movie for their Genius Series… large thanx to everyone who came thru!! Next stop… my @sixers,” Will captioned the post. Emancipation is Will’s upcoming Apple TV+ movie successful which helium plays Peter, a Black antheral who escapes slavery during the American Civil War.
Just 2 days earlier Will’s Lakers visit, helium posted a selfie with immoderate of his friends and chap celebrities who came retired to enactment him during a peculiar preview of the movie, arsenic seen below. “EPIC night!! Thanx for coming to spot #Emancipation. Hope ya’ll enjoyed!!” helium wrote earlier tagging Dave Chappelle, Rihanna, Tyler Perry, Kenya Barris, A$AP Rocky, and more.
At the opening of October, Will took a fewer moments to beforehand the movie and admitted it was a precise taxing relation for him to play. “This was the hardest movie I’ve ever made. Blood, Sweat & Tears… LITERALLY!” helium wrote connected Instagram alongside a snippet of the movie. “Shoutout to Apple who doubled (and tripled) down connected their committedness to present this epic communicative to the world.” Emancipation volition watercourse connected Apple TV+ connected Dec. 9.
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