Will Smith makes first awards appearance

For the first time since slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars last year, Will Smith returned to the award show stage in person.
At the African American Film Critics Association Awards on Wednesday, Smith and his “Emancipation” director Antoine Fuqua accepted the Beacon Award together.
Fuqua thanked the cast and crew, then passed the microphone to Smith.
Smith said that “‘Emancipation’ was the most individual difficult film of his entire career. ”
It is extremely challenging to take a contemporary thought process back to that era. It is hard to conceive of such an inhumane level.
Smith, who plays an enslaved man named Peter in the AppleTV+ movie, recounted filming one scene in which another actor ad-libbed and spat on him during a take.
He said that it was the second day of shooting and it was 110 degrees. ”
In a scene I was in with one of the White actors, we had our lines, but the actor chose to improvise. We are thus performing the scene. ”
In a scene I was in with one of the White actors, we had our lines, but the actor chose to improvise. He performed his line. He then ad-libbed and spat in the middle of my chest. If I had been wearing pearls, I definitely would have clutched them. “I was about to call out ‘Antoineeeeee,’ but then I remembered that Peter couldn’t have contacted the director.”
Smith kept describing the scene.
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“We will take two.” I do my job. He recites his verse and spits it right in the center of my chest once more. Smith said that she had just held onto that moment, and that there was a part of her that, even now, makes her teary-eyed, for which she was grateful because she was able to truly understand. In the far-off, I heard a voice and Antoine’s words, “Hey, let’s do a take without the spit.” It was then that I realized God must exist.
Although Smith was unable to attend the NAACP Image Awards last weekend, where he won the best actor award for his performance in the film, he expressed his gratitude on social media for the recognition.