“Emancipation” director Antoine Fuqua got here to the protection of his upcoming Apple TV+ film starring Will Smith after the infamous slap incident at the Oscars earlier this 12 months.
The new drama, by which he stars as an enslaved man on the run from a Louisiana plantation, is Smith’s first position post-smack controversy.
Fuqua, 56, told Vanity Fair just lately that he all the time deliberate to debut the movie, whatever the Oscars problem.
“My conversation was always, ‘Isn’t 400 years of slavery, of brutality, more important than one bad moment?’” the “Equalizer” director stated.
“We were in Hollywood, and there’s been some really ugly things that have taken place, and we’ve seen a lot of people get awards that have done some really nasty things.”
Fuqua stated Apple supported the discharge, too.
“I think Apple considered all those things, and we discussed a lot of those things. Then a decision was made by the people in charge of distribution and the money at Apple — and I’m grateful, I’m really grateful,” he stated.
“There was never a conversation with me and Apple or my producers, Todd Black and Jon Mone or Heather Washington, about the movie not coming out. It was more about, ‘We’re assessing everything. We’re seeing what people are saying.’”
The “Training Day” director additionally famous how the “King Richard” star, 54, was “kind to everyone on the set.”
“So no excuses for anyone or anything, but I can say that he’s a good man and I hope that people can forgive him and that we can move forward,” Fuqua concluded. “I hope Chris [Rock] and Will find a way to sit together publicly, privately, whatever, and make amends.”
Smith slapped Oscars presenter Chris Rock at the coveted awards show this previous March after the comic made a joke about Smith’s spouse Jada Pinkett Smith.
The “Men in Black” actor was subsequently banned from the Oscars for the subsequent decade and apologized to Rock, 57.
However, “Emancipation” has been getting rave opinions and earned applause throughout a special screening hosted by the NAACP final month.
“Throughout my career, I’ve turned down many films that were set in slavery,” Smith famous on the screening. “I never wanted to show us like that. And then this picture came along. And this is not a film about slavery. This is a film about freedom. This is a film about resilience. This is a film about faith.”
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