Why Will Smith Turned Down Christopher Nolan’s Inception

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Someone, update the result card. Will Smith registered in choosing science fiction classics to dispose of it is now 50/50. The star “Men In Black” and “Day Independence Day” rejected the role of NEO in “The Matrix”, and during the last Smith appeared on the British radio station Kiss Xtra, the host Craig Mitch Smith asked about this decision, and if there are any similar films he refused.

“It is very painful” to answer the question. However, after he reached the stage of accepting sadness, I drop this bomb:

“I don’t think I did not say that publicly before … I will say it now because we open each other. Chris Nolan brought me first, and I have never got it. I never said that before.”

In 2010, months after the launch of “Inception”, the Hollywood Reporter reported that Smith was the second choice of the leadership role, after Brad Pitt and before Leonardo DiCaprio (who said yes and played the starring role in the final movie). However, Smith claims that this is the first time that he talks about “decrease” “beginning”, and I get why it is like “matrix”. The “start” was a great success, critically and commercially. Besides “The Dark Knight”, she marched the permanent record of Nolan for success as a movie director and at the box office. I don’t think “Beginning” is the best movie Christopher Nolan (although it is close), but it is He is The movie that has proven that it does not need Batman to make a wonderful collection.

“The Matrix” and “Inception” are somewhat similar films, not only because Will Smith said no for both of them. (Hey, at least I said yes to the “suicide band”, Will!). Both are dreams and different layers of reality, as well as adventure films with a more thinking aspect. Setpieces is designed like the rotating entrance in “Inception” on effects such as lead time in “The Matrix”, which played with the spatial reality of dreams.

Smith pointed out that the similarities in the Kiss Xtra interview and concluded: “Now that I thought about it, it is those films that enter into these alternative facts. They do not put well.”

Smith told the Xtra bag that it is considered a “matrix” rejection to be one of [his] Beautiful scars. “In 2019, Smith shared a video on his personal channel on YouTube to set the record directly about the reason he said no to play the new” The Matrix “.

As it turns out, [‘The Matrix’ directors the Wachowskis] It is geniuses! But there is a high line in the stadium meeting between genius and what I tried at the meeting, ”Smith explained. Then he started reading the stadium (or at least his memory):

So, my shouted, we are thinking, imagine that you are in a fight, then you like jumping, imagine if you can stop jumping in the middle of the jump, but then people can see those around you 360 while jumping, while stopping jumping … then we will invent these cameras, then people can see the entire jump while you stop in the middle of the jump. “

He concludes his story: “So I made” Wild West West. “If I had done it, because I am black, Murphius will not be black … Maybe I would spoil the” matrix “… so I did all known.”

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Smith’s comment about “No [getting]”Inception” tracks what he said about the refusal of the “matrix.” After its release, “Inception” built a reputation as a file Confusing The film, mostly attributed to the templiest doll structure of a dream in a dream in a dream, and so on. Films that you cannot know what is real and what cannot be really confusing, at “Begin”, you also have to track what is happening in any dream. I really think everything slides in its place in the second viewing (and when you accept that it does not matter whether what happens at the end of the “start” is real or dream). But I also understand why the story’s layers are tracked in a text or text (without being able to see it visually) will be difficult.

In saying no for each of the “matrix” and “the beginning”, Will Smith has some of the most beautiful scars in Hollywood.