Smith credited Foster for “clicking me into the next gear of depth and focus.”
In my mind I was giving my best Will Smith.
And Ben just walked past me and didn’t say nothing."
Ben Foster and Will Smith.Steve Granitz/FilmMagic
“I thought, ‘Oh he must not have seen me,'” Smith said.
“And then for six months he didn’t speak to me.
He didn’t make eye contact with me.
He didn’t say a word.
He didn’t acknowledge me for six months.
But what he did that first day, I was like, ‘Yup, got it.
We’re not playing.
We’re not fooling around.'”
We got it.’
The anecdote prompted laughter from the Smith children.
Smith previously touched on the anecdotewhile in conversation with EW alongside his costar and director.
“He snapped me to attention,” he said.
Foster added, “My first day on set, I didn’t see Will Smith doing Will Smith.
I saw a man going deep in, and we didn’t need to speak.
So for whatever it’s worth, I thank you for snapping me in, too.”
Watch Smith’sRed Table Talktakeover with his children above.
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