The book tells the success story of Will Smith on the one hand, but on the other the actor also takes a vulnerable position. He even does some confessions. He once thought of killing his father.
Smith grew up in a middle-class family in Philadelphia. As a child, he witnessed one day how his father severely mistreated his mother. “With everything I’ve done since then – the awards and accolades, the spotlights and attention, the characters and the laughter – there has been a subtle series of apologies to my mother for not intervening that day, for not doing it for me then. took her in because I was a coward.”
Will Smith, de bigger-than-life movie star, is for him largely a construction. “I made it to protect myself, to hide myself from the world, to hide the coward.”
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