- Title: FJ-HRN-2932
- Summary: Seven Pounds / Will Smith: HRN-2932 Seven Pounds Junket Will Smith Interview
- Description:05:10:34 - Sound Bite: Will Smith *RC Round Up You know Clooney dont come sit in for me for 10 minutes, you know what I mean? (talks) And talk about Seven Pounds. You know Im a, George I need to get something to drink and use the bathroom. Can you do this please? 05:11:08 - Sound Bite: Will Smith him and blockbusters I got 4 more locked and loaded. I got the next 4, and then Im all out, Im all out! No this, I love the uh from the first read of this script, you know the idea of you know what this journey is and what it means and you know I usually dont have that level of emotional reaction reading a script. Its usually intellectual. Um but this one wrecked me over and over and over again. 05:11:47 - Sound Bite: Will Smith youre telling people the movie is a tearjerker Yeah its um, you know Gabriele has this ability, he also directed Pursuit of Happyness, right? Where it makes you cry, right, but its a man cry, you know its not, its like a male chick flick, you know what I mean, where you can let the woman in you come out. I dont know if that was a good selling point, you know. (talks) Yeah its like Pursuit of Happyness was really all, you know it was a male journey but yet at the end of it it was like it just touches that sensitive spot in a masculine way and Gabriele really has that skill and I think hes done it again with this one. 05:12:52 - Sound Bite: Will Smith did you have to fight for the content of the film You know we, the relationships that we have um in this business are partnerships, so its not, we dont Im not dictating and the studios not dictating and producing partners were like its we get the smartest people we can find, we all get in a room and we agree that if we all agree that it should be something pretty good, you know so its um, its terrifying. Its like, to have, its like being in a fight and not being able to use weapons that you have. So we gotta fight but I cant use my special effects, I cant use my aliens, I cant use my jokes, I cant use you know my uh charming Fresh Prince guy. 05:13:53 - Sound Bite: Will Smith does he put himself in the role Well it the, you know, it always starts with me from other peoples stories. So I find real-life stories that reflect the experiences of the character. And as much as you talk to people and understand you know it starts with empathy and grows to sympathy into a pure comprehension of the emotional pattern, so and its dark to live there as an actor, especially for me something so totally opposite of who I really am.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/2008
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 2000s
- File Name: FJ-HRN-2932