Will Smith Talks Black Lives Matter & President Obama

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Aug 3, 2016
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The man who played "The Greatest" in Muhammad Ali may have also been able to play another great and legendary African American in US history in President Barack Obama. Will Smith claims he may have missed his chance to portray the first Black President of the United States. It was revealed on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert when Will Smith stated: “I was thinking about it but, you know, I watched Obama for the last 8 years [and] that’s a hard job. I definitely have had the itching. I have lots of views and ideas and sometimes I hear people say things on television and I just want to run against them. Just straight at ’em and knock ’em over. But I think it’s not where my greatest gifts are.”

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air star continued saying, “[Barack and I] talked about [me playing him a film] a couple times. He said the one thing that’s for sure is I have the ears to play him.”

Smith gave his thoughts on the whole Black Lives Matter, saying, “I always look at these things in terms of a marriage, you know? I’ve done my 10,000 hours of marriage counseling. So Jada and I have worked really hard to develop a successful relationship. So I always look at things in terms of relationships, so when I think about race relations in this country now, there’s a thing that happens before things are cleaned up.”

Smith continued to say, “When I hear people say that it’s worse than it’s ever been, I disagree completely. It’s clearly not worse than it was in the ’60s. And it’s certainly not as bad as it was in the 1860s. We are talking about race in this country more clearly and openly than we have almost ever in the history of this country. It’s on the table. Racism is not getting worse, it’s getting filmed.”