Many success scenarios by Will Smith have included science fiction successes such as Day of Independence and the Men in black Movies. But one of Smith’s most famous trivies is that he rejected the role of neo The matrix. Admits it (and admits it regrets it), and even made a music video This year in the style of Wachowskis classic, giving the fans a vision of what might have been. And now it collects to another great science fiction movie that happened to star in: Christopher Nolan’s Start.
Smith shared this fun fact while talking to Radio Kiss Xtra station, which you can see on the clip below.
“I don’t think I’ve ever said it publicly,” Smith admitted to the interviewer. “Chris Nolan took me Start First and I didn’t get it … I never said it out loud. “”
“Now that I think about it, these are those films that enter these alternative realities, they do not get well. But it hurts these two (papers I did not assume).”
Will Smith reveals that director Christopher Nolan brought him the movie “Inception” first, but he rejected it and says that films about alternative realities do not get well.
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As The Hollywood Reporter reminds us, Nolan’s first option Start It was Brad Pitt. The potential star had only 48 hours to decide, and when the answer did not arrive on time, the director tried Smith. It is clear that we know what happened there, and this is how Leonardo DiCaprio ended up reaching the part.
Pitt and Smith obviously went well, and all three have no Oscars. But you have to ask yourself – it’s a Start-Will Smith Music Video come out below?
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