{"id":86127,"date":"2022-10-04T00:21:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T00:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/will-smith-is-on-the-run-in-the-trailer-for-apples-emancipation\/"},"modified":"2022-10-04T00:21:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T00:21:07","slug":"will-smith-is-on-the-run-in-the-trailer-for-apples-emancipation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/will-smith-is-on-the-run-in-the-trailer-for-apples-emancipation\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Smith is on the run in the trailer for Apple’s Emancipation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Antoine Fuqua recently held a screening for his upcoming Apple TV+ movie Emancipation<\/em>which stars Will Smith as the real-life slave who famously posed for a photo published in Harper’s Weekly <\/em>that showcased his horrifically scarred back (a crucial piece of compelling evidence for campaigns against slavery at the time), and everyone seems to have nothing but positive things to say about it. Entertainment Weekly <\/em>quotes Derrick Johnson<\/span>, head of the NAACP, as saying that he \u201ccan’t begin to tell how powerful this is for OUR community and OUR history.\u201d Smith also noted that he has turned down movies about slavery in the past, but that \u201cthis is not a movie about slavery.\u201d Instead, he says, \u201cThis is a movie about freedom. This is a movie about resilience. This is a movie about faith.\u201d <\/p>\n

deadline <\/em>shared a trailer<\/span> for the film and chatted with Fuqua about it, and while he stops short of saying that he thinks Emancipation <\/em>is his best movie, he does admit that he said when he had finished that it’s his \u201cstrongest piece of work\u201d and \u201ccertainly\u201d his \u201cmost important\u201d film. Apple seems to agree with that last bit, with Fuqua telling deadline <\/em>that the company \u201cnever stopped talking about releasing the movie\u201d even after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars and even after the whole production moved from Georgia to Louisiana.<\/span><\/p>\n