Will Smith for GQ magazine

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Will Smith covers the new issue of GQ magazine.

• Is looking waaay different without his usual goatee or something?.
• Talks about his two new projects tackling racial themes: Emancipation (an Apple TV+ project that tells the story of “Whipped Peter,” the Black man whose tattered back is depicted in one of the most famous photos of an enslaved American.) and King Richard (in which Smith portrays Richard Williams, the eccentric, hard-nosed father of Venus and Serena).

“I’ve always avoided making films about slavery,” Smith had told me about an hour earlier as we sat in a production trailer. “In the early part of my career… I didn’t want to show Black people in that light. I wanted to be a superhero. So I wanted to depict Black excellence alongside my white counterparts. I wanted to play roles that you would give to Tom Cruise.”

• Digs a bit further into the content of his memoirs that will reveal new information about his troubled relationship with his father, his adventures in self-actualization during what he calls “the f*ck-it 50s,” and the ups and downs of his relationship with Jada.
• Reminisces about his family and violent episodes with his father.

“My father tormented me. And he was also one of the greatest men I’ve ever known,” Smith writes, noting that his father was the one who instilled in him his sense of loyalty and perfectionism. “He was one of the greatest blessings of my life, and also one of my greatest sources of pain.”

• As part of the so-called "the f*ck-it 50s": sat in solitude for 14 days in Utah, traveled to Peru for more than a dozen ayahuasca rituals, confessed to his intimacy coach that he’d want a harem of girlfriends, including Halle Berry and Misty Copeland.
• Mentions his embracing of social media has another storytelling experiment and takes advices from Liza Koshy.
• Talks about his marriage and the many times Jada made compromises (doing a traditional wedding ceremony, moving into a massive 256-acre family home that Will bought even though she was dead set against purchasing, turning down an opportunity for her band to open for Guns N’ Roses so that Smith could continue shooting The Pursuit of Happyness).
• Talks about the infamous Red Table Talk where Jada and Will discussed Jada's "entanglement" with August Alsina and the fact that Will was not faithful either.

“The public has a narrative that is impenetrable,” Smith said. “Once the public decides something, it’s difficult to impossible to dislodge the pictures and ideas and perceptions.” Because the impetus for the Red Table Talk was Alsina’s disclosures, a viewer could have walked away thinking that Jada was the only one engaging in other sexual relationships, when that was not, Smith delicately explained to me, in fact the case.

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