{"id":1993231,"date":"2023-08-07T14:51:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T18:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/will-smith-almost-turned-down-men-in-black-until-spielberg-sent-a-helicopter\/"},"modified":"2023-08-07T14:53:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T18:53:29","slug":"will-smith-almost-turned-down-men-in-black-until-spielberg-sent-a-helicopter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/will-smith-almost-turned-down-men-in-black-until-spielberg-sent-a-helicopter\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Smith nearly rejected the role in &#8216;Men In Black&#8217; but changed his mind after Steven Spielberg sent a helicopter."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwill-smith-almost-turned-down-men-in-black-until-spielberg-sent-a-helicopter%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1993231&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Will Smith Almost Turned Down Iconic Role in &#8220;Men in Black&#8221;<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Actor\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/will-smith\"><b>Will Smith<\/b><\/a>  \u200c said he almost turned down his iconic\u200b role in the sci-fi \u200baction\u2063 comedy \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/movies\"><b>Men in Black<\/b><\/a>\u201d \u2063until executive producer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/steven-spielberg\"><b>Steven Spielberg<\/b><\/a>  went to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/spring-breakdown-la-teachers-union-tries-to-hide-vacations-amid-school-reopening-fight\/\" title=\"Spring Breakdown: LA Teachers\u2019 Union Tries to Hide Vacations Amid School Reopening Fight\">great lengths<\/a> to convince him to take it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The 54-year-old\u200b said he \u200bwas initially ready to\u2064 reject the role because he\u2019d starred in \u2063\u201cIndependence Day\u201d the year before and didn\u2019t\u2063 want to make two \u2064alien-focused movies\u200c in a row. But\u200b he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-remains-defiant-in-afghanistan-withdrawal-process-says-there-was-no-way-of-getting-out-without-chaos-ensuing\/\" title=\"Biden Remains Defiant In Afghanistan Withdrawal Process, Says There Was No Way Of Getting Out \u2018Without Chaos Ensuing\u2019\">quickly changed<\/a> his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-disagreement-over-a-pedophile-upended-a-libertarian-anti-war-rally\/\" title=\"How Disagreement Over a Pedophile Upended a Libertarian Anti-War Rally\">mind due<\/a> to Spielberg\u2019s \u200bpersistence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the\u200b heyday, the ten\u2062 movies\u200d I made\u2062 at the top of my career, [former manager James Lassiter] was choosing the films,\u201d \u200cSmith said during\u200d a recent appearance on Kevin Hart\u2019s \u201cHart to Heart\u201d talk show, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insider.com\/will-smith-steven-spielberg-men-in-black-helicopter-2023-8\"><b>Insider<\/b><\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe just had an eye. I didn\u2019t\u200c want to make \u2018Pursuit of Happyness.\u2019 I \u200cdidn\u2019t want\u200c to \u200dmake \u2018Ali.\u2019 And [Lassiter] \u2064picked \u2018Men in Black.\u2019 I kind of understood \u200d\u2018Men in Black\u2019 a little bit but \u200dI didn\u2019t want to make \u2018Men in Black.\u2019 That\u200c was the next year\u2062 after \u2018Independence Day.\u2019 So I \u200ddidn\u2019t want to\u2063 make two alien movies back\u200c to back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSteven Spielberg sent a \u200bhelicopter for me to talk to \u2062me,\u201d the actor\u200b continued. \u201cI was \u200cin New York. It landed at his house. And, like, he had me at hello. And it was the first time I ever had lemonade\u2063 with carbonated water. You can\u2019t say \u200dno to that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said the\u2062 coldest sh**,\u201d Smith \u200bwent on. \u201cHe said, \u2018Tell \u2062me why you don\u2019t want to make my movie\u2026\u2019 \u2064And he was the producer.\u2062 And he put the ellipsis at the end, it was the\u200b dot, \u200cdot,\u2062 dot. If he had continued, he would have said, \u2018Joker, \u2064you know I made \u2018Jaws,\u2019 right? You \u200dknow I made \u2018E.T.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, Smith starred \u2062in the movie as Agent J, opposite Tommy Lee Jones \u200cas \u200cAgent \u2064K. They portrayed members of a\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/will-smith-almost-turned-down-men-in-black-until-spielberg-sent-a-helicopter\/\" title=\"Will Smith nearly rejected the role in 'Men In Black' but changed his mind after Steven Spielberg sent a helicopter.\">top-secret \u2062organization established<\/a>\u2063 to control alien\u200c activity on Earth. The two agents were tasked with undermining \u2064a plot by an intergalactic \u200dterrorist who arrives to destroy \u200cthe planet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMen in Black\u201d was a \u200dcritical and \u2062commercial success, raking in $589 million worldwide following its July 1997\u2063 release. The popularity\u200c of the \u200coriginal film inspired the creation of\u2063 three more movies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Will Smith almost declined his iconic role in &#8220;Men in Black&#8221; until executive producer Steven Spielberg persuaded him. 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