Above is a photo of Will and Jada Pinkett Smith at the premiere of his new movie, Concussion, for which he’s getting Oscar buzz. Jada wore this insane see-through sequin Zuhair Murad gown that Will is admiring. She’s about to rip the skirt off so it won’t trip her up when she does a double axle. This isn’t the first time that Jada has worn an obvious “look at me” outfit to one of Will’s events. Just last week she got her boobs out at the Latin Grammys, where Will performed, in yet another sheer and silver sequin dress.
Will’s face kind of says it all here, he has the best expressions.
Will has been fielding questions about his marriage, and he and Jada have put a lot out there about their relationship so that’s to be expected. When asked for the “secret” to his 20 year marriage Will said it’s hard work, basically.
“We’ve been married 20 years and we’ve been asking ourselves [what’s the secret to marriage] and really at the end of the day it’s just not quitting,” the 47-year-old actor said of Pinkett Smith, who he first started dating in 1995 and then married two years later. “You can’t expect it to be easy, it’s like our marriage was the most difficult, grueling, excruciating thing that we have ever taken on in our lives. And you know were just not quitters and by the same token we’re not apathetic. We’re not going to sit there and let it be painful, we’re going to keep working.”
“If there is a secret I would say is that we never went into working our relationship. We only ever worked on ourselves individually, and then presented ourselves to one another better than we were previously.”
I could shade Will for this because a lot of people think long term relationships should be “easy,” but when you have two strong-willed highly motivated people like this I don’t doubt that they clash. At least he’s being honest, although he doesn’t sound too positive about it. I don’t really understand how he could say that they never worked on their relationship together and only “worked on ourselves individually, and then presented ourselves to one another better than we were previously.” Maybe that works for them, or doesn’t work depending on what is going on behind the scenes, but what about learning to communicate and work things out? It sounds like they just avoid each other for a while and get back together when they’ve had enough alone time. That’s pretty much the impression I’ve had of their relationship.
Will has several more interviews promoting Concussion, based on the true story of a forensic doctor who fought the NFL to bring awareness to the epidemic of traumatic brain injury among football players. It’s out on Christmas. GQ has a cute video interview in which he describes his worst 80s fashion fail, a half-shirt on Fresh Prince, and also talks about one of his son’s fashion moments, where Jaden wore a batman suit to a girl’s prom. Will explained that Jada talked their son into at least wearing a tie with it, “so I blame his mother.”
Spoilers for Django Unchained
Oh and a lot of outlets are talking about Will revealing that he turned down the lead in Django Unchained because he wanted to make it more of a love story than a revenge tale and Tarantino wasn’t on board. Will said this during The Hollywood Reporter’s Actors Roundtable discussion, but Forbes points out that this is actually the second explanation he’s given for not taking that role. Back when promoting After Earth (ha), Will said he didn’t do Django because Christoph Waltz’s bounty hunter character got to be the hero and kill the bad guy, not his intended slavecharacter, who was ultimately played by Jamie Foxx. It just sounds like he tried to tell Tarantino how to make his movie and Tarantino wasn’t having it. I can’t imagine Will Smith in that role anyway, Jamie Foxx was so impressive.
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Yeah, he was definitely a poor fit for Django; I’m honestly surprised that Quentin entertained the idea at all. I’m sure it’s true that he wanted his character to be a romantic hero, not a nuanced vigilante… but had he ever seen a Tarantino movie before? That wasn’t gonna happen.
Right? I mean, that pairing had clash written all over it. Anyway, Foxx was amazing in that role
its always hard to imagine someone else after a movie is released but Foxx just has more rawness. Smith is a good actor but i have trouble seeing him aggressive and vengeful.
I never heard that Smith had been approached about the role but Foxx was great so it all worked out.
Exactly. He has dramatic and comedic chops for sure… but he’s not quite nuanced enough to pull off dark humor or over-the-top violence.
Apparently everyone tried to convince Will to do Django, but he was dead set against it. Which isn’t really a surprise – Will Smith’s goal is to be the biggest movie star in the world, not really to make good movies. He stays specifically between big, special effects laden movies, and mild adult fare. That isn’t to say that none of his movies are good (the man’s a huge star for a reason), but that he’s not exactly someone that’s going to be talking about his craft. And Django Unchained was way off brand for Will.
I agree Django was off brand for Will but he was also right about Christoph Waltz character being the real star. By that I mean, Django has no real personal agency. Christoph has to teach him to 1) physically walk away from his own shackles and 2) fight back against his oppressors. Even a dog runs from its oppressor as soon as the door is open but black guys through out that movie simply dont. Its the classic white savior narrative, complete with the white savior being matyred. To then also rob Django of the big kill is just…..*sigh. Not even the action sequence that follows that can erase the symbolism there. Black man was basically rescued mentally and physically from white master by good, white, brave man.
It will never matter how badass the actor who plays Django is, this is barely his story. (I will leave my rant on how black women are depicted for a more suitable day) But yeah, even with those issues resolved I dont know if Will would have finally dine it anyway.
I don’t think it would have mattered. Will Smith was never going to do a Tarantino movie.
” Will Smith’s goal is to be the biggest movie star in the world, not really to make good movies. ”
Exactly. I think your post is totally accurate. He doesn’t stray away from the formula much.
I can see both sides in term of the “white saviour” thing, but Christopher Waltz’s character made the plot actually believable/workable. Django wouldn’t have been able to get any sort of meeting with Leo’s character. Plus it was Django who killed off the rest of the baddies on the plantation.
What I thought. Why did Quentin want him in the first place and haven’t he ever watched his films? Quentin’s not Nicholas Sparks.
Jada looking a little saw faced to me. Where you at K Fed?
Jada has a body that doesn’t quit, but she’s up there looking like somebody’s mama who doesn’t want to let the youth go. After a certain age, you have to have some decorum. I would not want my boys looking at my bits at that age, but that’s just me.
LMFAO
Hahahahaha, awesomeness.
It’s the RED CARPET ladies, you have to shock. She’s not going out to dinner and the theater. She looks good and if my body look like that, I would wear it too.
Yeah, but when one can practically see bush, it may be a bit much at any age and at any fitness level.
Her bod looks great, but her face … yikes. She has had a lot of work done and it makes her look much older.
I don’t get this trend of show as much as possible. It is desperate and not classy. So many actresses do this and it reeks of desperation. How about just wearing a nice elegant dress?
I don’t get it either. It’s overkill at this point, and the thirst for attention from all of them is nuts. If Joan were still around playing “Starlet or Streetwalker” on Fashion Police they’d have some time trying to differentiate the two. And her list of “Fash-holes” would be lengthy. I can almost hear her critiquing them all.
I don’t get it too. They just look tacky, tacky, tacky.
Me neither and wish it would go away.
I thought I was the only one. All of these sheer see thru dresses make me uncomfortable. I don’t find them sexy at all.
There’s a really good article on Daily Mail (I know, I know…) about this very topic. The writer raises some very interesting points. Is anyone not over this tacky trend?
These women should just walk onto the red carpet naked with some diamond encrusted tassels on their nipples. What is the point of wearing these ugly sequin gowns when the purpose is simply to expose one’s private parts to the world? Might as well allow these guys to enjoy the show rather than trying to act demure in an outfit like that.
Well of course it’s hard work, it’s a mutual bearding arrangement laden with endless Scientology audits. I get tired just thinking about it.
LOL! I wasn’t aware they were part of the whole Scientology “cult”….makes me like them even less now!
They’ve never come out and admitted it, but they funded a school run on Scientology principles. And the permissive way they raise their kids is similar to what was said about Suri Cruise’s upbringing … that her parents believed in treating her like a miniature adult and letting her make her own rules.
They arent Scientologists. Not only have they never declared themselves so, but none of the high ranking former insiders have ever declared them members. They have never even been seen at the annual thing Miscavige throws. The rumor that they are Scientologists is based on pure conjecture. What we know from insiders is that they were probably heavily courted at the height of Wills career as was David Beckham, and thats it. They seem to have just cherry picked ideas and incorporated what they liked into their lives. Almost like a self help thing. Donating to the school is no different from my being an atheist and donating to Christian led initiatives. If I feel that something would benefit the world and I have money sitting around, who care whether its Christian or Budhist led. What would have been actually incriminating would be funding SeaOrg infrastructure, which Miscavige is constantly pfund raising for.
Sorry, but you’re wrong, Naya. They are absolutely Scientologists. Been confirmed by multiple investigative reports and inside sources. Read Lawrence Wright’s “Going Clear”.
I have read Going Clear. On what page exactly is their membership confirmed?
Heres both Mike Rinder (former high ranking insider) and Tony Ortega (most respected journalist covering Scientology) confirming that Will Smith isnt a scientologist. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/04/former-scientology-senior-executive-will-smith-is-not-a-scientologist.html
FYI these were Wrights biggest sources. Tony Ortega has also said that his sources tell him that Jada explored it and never really joined. Will has no interest in religion, he just plucks ideas from wherever and applies them to his life. Btw, I do own Going Clear, please provide the page number where Will and Jadas membership is confirmed.
Another thing related to Scientology that makes their marriage difficult is basically allowing their children far too much freedom far too early on. That comes back to haunt you!
Naya- they did more than donate. They were involved in running the school. Their children’s “homeschooling” (with other kids) was definitely all according to L. Ron Hubbard. Their kids didn’t get the message to keep it quiet so they use Co$ jargon and concepts periodically. For whatever reason, the parentals don’t want to publicly identify with Co$, but if it looks like a duck, talks like a duck, walks like a duck …. It’s a duck. Maybe this way they’re able to avoid the worst aspects of auditing/blackmail potential while doing the rest of it? I do think their children have suffered from the Co$ approach to education and parenting, though.
Nice shade.
20 years is an awful long time to hang with such an arrangement, and without anyone’s cover being blown. Just sayin’.
This dress again….
Pretty sure 1999 just called and wants that dress back.
Right? Soooooooooooo sick of this design.
Please, please let sheer iceskater dress die, please..
JLo must be pissed that everyone keeps stealing her look!
Something nice. I like her hair and she has great skin. Will is a such a charismatic likable man that I’ll always have a soft spot for him but he and Jada need to stop putting so much personal stuff out there. It’ll come back to bite them on the ass. It already has as people stay giving them the side-eye for that and the $cientology stuff.
She’s about to rip the skirt off so it won’t trip her up when she does a double axle.
Lol. That was some good snark CB. Kudos.
I feel the exact same way about Will Smith. I’m not sure even $cion can kill my eternal crush on him.
..and I will give CB a final score of 8.8 for the well-executed shade.
Will is my forever husband, He’s just so.. swoon worthy I can’t even get mad at his personal .. business. I don’t even comment on his kids shenanigans. I just ignore it, like I’m so blind for my crush, he can do no wrong in my eyes
The American judge gives it a 7.5.
I like Will too. I’ve always liked him. He does get a side-eye from me because of how he’s raised Jaden and Willow.
Ditto on this. They have to be the most insufferable, explicitly arrogant, delusional children I have ever seen come out of Hollywood.
I wonder what exactly was hard work for him in this marriage? There were rumors of him stepping out, of them having an open marriage. He has a gorgeous wife that he gets to show off and obviously supports his projects. That seems like a sweet deal to me.
How much easier does he want it to be?
Men whine so much!
I will be married 20 years in June and it is hard work. I won’t say it’s “excruciating,” but it’s no walk in the park either. I agree with him that you have to choose to stay in the relationship and not quit.
Is every day hard? No. But every day is not hand-holding, you’re the best thing I’ve ever done kind of day either.
The longer I’ve been married, the more I realize that every couple who has been married any significant length of time, navigates, negotiates and renegotiates what works for them over the years. Take the Clintons for instance, many people would not be satisfied with that marriage, but they’ve been married for 40 years, so obviously whatever their marriage is, it works for them.
The people I know married for more than 20 years will say the feelings of love ebb and flow, but the foundation of commitment to each other is the bedrock of what keeps them together. It is a lot of work, but where there’s a will on both sides, there is a way a couple can stay together and not regret it.
My parents were married 49 years when dad died. Mom said if she’d had a penny for every time she wanted a divorce she could have bought a house in Spain. Dad wasn’t one to talk about his feelings but, given what he had to put up with with her mother and the family tragedies, disappointments, and changes that occur over that many years, they still hung in there. They were each other’s best friend and that’s what counted most.
@sherry – LOL let’s please not hold the Clintons up as some great example of a solid marriage. They are never in the same state at the same time, let alone the same house. They lead separate lives and have for many years, married only on paper and only for the brand, wealth and power. I think we can all look to real life couples we actually know whom have been married for decades before admiring a celebrity couple with a major PR image to uphold.
@ Nutballs – Exactly! Relationships ebb and flow. It’s the commitment to stay together and work through the bad that keeps a marriage together. And both partners have to agree to it, or it won’t work.
@ holly2905 – 49 years! Wow! And yes, I think we’ve all had that, “I give up!” feeling from time to time. It’s during those times I remind myself, I did not vow to stick through this marriage for good times, good health, wealth and happiness and when the bad times roll in I’m out of here. It boils down to commitments and good for your parents they were able to stay best friends! My husband is my best friend, (even when I want to throttle him!).
@ WinnieCoopersMom – Your reaction to the Clinton marriage is exactly what I was trying to point out. I don’t idolize or admire the Clinton marriage, I was pointing out that their marriage (which I believe is more of a business relationship) works for them. It would not work for me, but they seem to be happy with it and it is their marriage and their relationship. Take another “celebrity” marriage … The Duggars – I could not be in a marriage like Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar’s without wanting to kill Jim Bob on a daily basis. However, that marriage seems to work for them.
Every couple figures out what works and what doesn’t for THEM to make it last over the years. There is no one size fits all for couples with the exception of what Nutballs pointed out and that is the commitment to stay together. The negotiating starts from there.
My parents have been married for 41 years. Some days they fight, it’s normal. They have to work on their relationship every single day. My mum also says many times she wants the divorce, but when one sees them going for a walk, holding hands like highschool sweethearts and being there for eachother in everything.. It’s just …wow, I want something like that…
she’s not gorgeous
Who in the world would think long term relationships are easy?? But yeah, rather than working on their problems alone, they should to it together as a couple.. that’s weird, but I guess it must be Scientology-like?
Nobody with an ounce of sense thinks long-term relationships are easy, but I was somewhat taken aback by his choice of words. He’s so very….. negative about it. Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but there’s absolutely no sense of “togetherness” to his words. There doesn’t seem to be any reason NOT to quit except “well, we just don’t”. It ain’t easy, but if it’s as bad as all that, well, it seems silly to keep slogging on.
Just celebrated 16 years of marriage and I would never use those terms to describe it (and we had to work through an infidelity bout). Sounds awful.
We’ll see what happens when both kids are full grown and on their own. If that ever happens… Have my doubts about the boy, he seems so immature for his age.
Actually, my experience is that most people think it SHOULD be easy, otherwise “it’s not meant to be” “why bother” “there’s probably someone out there better suited”.
I applaud people who say that it is hard work and compromises and deciding to make it work, instead of bailing the moment you have to make an effort. People are so lazy and sold on this fairy-tale idea that everything should magically just happen.
(Sorry for the rant lol)
Preach it! And if they don’t feel ‘in lurve’ every day than it’s time for a divorce!
I get that having a long-term marriage or relationships are hard work but they make it sound like there is nothing but hard work in their marriage. why are they even together? do they even like each other?
He has become as exhausting as those insufferable kids of his. All I hear is white noise when they talk, and I used to love Will, but now…. Just no.
I agree…I was reading his statements thinking “WTF are you talking about”? It’s like when Tom Cruise starts blathering, I just want to put my hands over my ears and starting shouting “I CAN’T HEAR YOU, I CAN’T HEAR YOU” They both spout such unintelligent bullshit!!!!
Not keen on this couple. I thought they had stayed married because they went off and banged other people when ever they felt like it.
No shade from me. Mine is also exhausting and difficult. I think you hit the nail on the head, CB. Two very strong willed people in one relationship are bound to have problems. We do the same thing in working on ourselves, because trying to do it as a couple turns into a power struggle and doesn’t get us anywhere.
We are lucky to have a very successful, happy marriage, and do better with a bit less time spent together. I see people side eye celebs who have marriages like ours, but it does work for us. I love the man but jfc if I had to spend all my time with him like people seem to expect marriage to be, i’d rip my hair out. We both do our own thing. And I think jada and will do as well.
Hooray! Someone else in my boat! LOL Been together 17 years and NO I do not want to spend every minute with that man. But I don’t want to get divorced and I don’t want to be with someone else either. For some of us marriage IS very hard work. Doesn’t make it any less valid.
Yes! I read the comments all the time about how so and so doesn’t spend time with their husband/wife or so and so doesn’t wear their rings or so and so doesn’t look super loved up on the red carpet and all I can ever think about is that if myself of hubbs ever got famous the tabloid divorce rumors would be CONSTANT because we don’t do any of those things. 😂
Same here. Rough patches are real. Most people give up. I almost did but because of difficult circumstances I stayed and now I believe those circumstances were a blessing in disguise. We both realized how devastated we were that it was ending so we made a huge effort to fix it. Thank God.
yeah its pretty much takes work with 2 strong personalities but its worth it especially when you look back at how much you’ve grown together & individually. And being realistic when you enter into the union makes it a lot more doable. My advice is always to anyone considering marriage is to make sure you take those colored lenses off before you make that type of commitment because it will definitely throw you for a loop once that allusion of 24/7 love & happiness around the clock rubs off.
Same here. I married my husband 19 years ago and we were together dating/living together for over 3 years before that. I was 23 when I started dating him and now I’m 46. We are similar in that we both have strong dominating personalities. We are both controlling, stubborn, don’t like to be led, and we’re both high-energy. It makes cause for alot of squabbling because we both still fight to get our way and maintain our own identity. That’s the challenge, but the chemistry is off the charts and we are eachother’s match. Neither of us would have been satisfied or lasted with a submissive personality. We’re like ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams’ couple in The Notebook.
@ ROSES~
I’ve been married 32 years as of next month, and you are sooo right about people who are considering marriage need to take off the colored glasses before getting married…BUT…from my experience alone, it was impossible for me to take off those rose colored glasses because I thought I KNEW better, and besides…
“IT’S DIFFERENT FOR US, WE REALLY**LOVE**EACH OTHER!!!!!!”
HA 😆 HA 😆 HA 😆 HA 😆 HA 😆 HA 😆 HA 😆 HA 😆 HA 😆 HA 😆
I do agree about working on yourself with individual therapy before OR in conjunction with couples’ therapy. Couples’ therapy was wasted on us early in the marriage because although we truly did love each other, we were both truly f***ed up (physical and emotionally abused on both sides, sadly). It took both of us DECADES of chipping away at all of the bad shite before we got to the good. And now I can honestly and GRATEFULLY say that it has never been better for us, it’s even better than in our ‘courting’ days 💕💕💕
I can’t ever forget to NOT take my husband for granted….every day is a recommitment, a renegotiation of sorts. There are wonderful days and there are horrible days; one day, one hour, one MINUTE at a time.
And yeah, hubby and I do MUCH better with some time apart 😊
Yes, I think it’s hard to blend your life with another person’s. We are able to discuss the hard parts, so that helps. I wouldn’t call it grueling and agonizing in our case, but their have been times when we really had to work on it. Sometimes you get stuck in the same argument over and over, or you want two different things, or one of you feels like “it’s my turn.” Whatever. It can be tough. I wouldn’t want to be married to a doormat, though. I like my husband’s personality. He’s reasonable but he knows what he wants, so we do butt heads on occasion. The thing I don’t understand is how people get through those times if they don’t love one another. That would be impossible for me.
I didn’t take his working on it separately comment that way. I took it as the second part. You work on yourself and try to present the best version of you possible. Instead of seeing it as a “relationship” problem where you can pass off some of the blame, you see it as a “you” problem and take full responsibility for the part you can control. As a strong-willed person myself married to a strong personality person, I think I can see what he is trying to say. I have doubts about their marriage, but I think he nailed it describing what it can take to make a marriage last.
My husband and I saw a counselor during a rough patch in our marriage. It really helped. It does boil down to looking at your own behavior, but to us, it was helpful to do it together. It made me see his side much better, and vice versa. I think you can get entrenched in your own position to the point that you aren’t listening anymore, or you are hearing criticisms and negativity that’s not really there. But I’m not sure that would have happened if we had done it seperately. I think Scientology is anti-therapy, isn’t it? Or at least therapy that’s not one of their crazy techniques. That’s probably why they didn’t see a counselor together.
Lucinda, I did kinda get that comment, too. I feel like I’m always trying to better myself and to work on being healthy, in both mind and body. The problem with not working on it together is if both parties aren’t working to grow and evolve, they end up out of sync. One partner stays kinda stuck. I guess when they’re each working on themselves with equal commitment, they somehow come together as a better couple.
Hmm. My marriage is not hard after ten yeara. It’s respectful and we handle disagreements like adults. Maybe I’m just a softie, but I don’t think marriage should feel like a disaster.
But, let’s say it got hard for a while. Maybe you’re husband loses his job, and he decides he has always wanted to be a forest ranger and live in Wyoming. You love nothing better than living in a bustling city and see Wyoming as a foreign country. Or you want to be near your family and get a lot of sustenance from that, and he feels like they interfere. Or you are long past ready to have a baby and he wants to wait four years until his next pay raise. No matter how respectful or reasonable you are, when you both really want opposite things, it can be hard. And you have to fight to keep things good between you. I think that’s what people mean when they say it can be hard. I do think that the words he used were extreme. I’ve never felt my marriage was agonizing torture. So I agree that if it’s truly THAT hard, you might question the viability of the relationship.
You’re right GNAT. It’s the words he uses that really gets to me. If you marriage/relationship is agonizing torture or excruciating (and it doesn’t seem like he is saying just parts of it are) then maybe you shouldn’t be in it.
GNAT, I think all of us who have been married for a while agree that there are difficult times, ups and downs, even times when one feels like it is over. But the. There are all the other times, the joy, the friendship, the support, the loyalty and shared history you get, and all he did here was go on and on about how agonizing the marriage is. Seriously, those are very negative terms, all of them.
And just looking at your example, if you think about it, with the exception of infidelity, a lot of problems as far as I can tell, occur in a relationship due to financial reasons. They never have to worry about losing jobs, mortgages, school tuition, not affording a vacation in years, medical bills, the strain of caring for parents on top of raising kids and holding down a job, whether one parent can stay home for a few months or years with the kids, support payments to an ex – the list goes on. When you don’t have to worry about affording to go out for dinner, having a sitter, who gets the groceries and who mows the lawn – all these things that strain a relationship, why in God’s name is it so hard??
I agree. There are going to be hard times, rough patches, and bad things to deal with. Things are going to suck sometimes and there will probably be giant hurdles to overcome. But if the overarching theme is “grueling and excruciating”? Um, wow, okay. Honestly is that even worth it?
My read of this is that he’s using the words loosely. If it was really “excruciating” there wouldn’t be a point. . .
“it’s like our marriage was the most difficult, grueling, excruciating thing that we have ever taken on in our lives.” It should not me the “most difficult, grueling, excruciating thing” that they have taken on. Yes, marriage, as any relationship, requires work. If it’s that difficult, then why stay in it.
I was also taken aback by the exact wording used. Those are very negative things to say, akin to torture and pain. Marriages certainly go through rough spots for everyone but Will’s way of putting his experience is extreme and turn-offish.
Agree. That wording, used to describe a marriage/relationship – unless abusive – is absurd. Just shows how cush his life has been. Cancer, death, violence, tragedy..those things are “difficult, grueling, excruciating.” This guy needs to get some perspective! What a drama queen. Now I see where his ridiculous children get their equally non-intelligent rhetoric from. You would think with all that money they could at least get some education on adjectives and how to use them without sounding like complete idiots. And on top of that, how about volunteering to help people who have truly been through legitimate “difficult, grueling, excruciating” situations to get a grip on the real world? Geez.
Here’s the thing also – he says “his marriage”, not just parts of it, but sounds like he is talking about the entire time he has been married. I divorced after 25 years. My marriage was not excruciating. It had it’s bad moments. I had an ex that was selfish and it was all about him and eventually anything I did was not good enough. But that is not excruciating.
@swack – mine ended after 10 years for the same reason. My ex was selfish, arrogant, stubborn and manipulative (a lawyer…typical!). It’s when you give up communicating that you know the end is near. I just got sick of the endless jockeying for power and gave up. It wasn’t excruciating, it was just empty and sad.
@jaded. So understand. My ex always had to one up me and I finally gave up and stop saying anything at times. I had to block him on facebook becuase I would make comments to my oldest daughter (funny ones, silly ones, ones that depending on how you read them you could take them one way or the other, my daughter always understands what I mean) and he would either, again, one up me or make some remark about what I had written (he didn’t get it). It was empty and sad.
Should have read farther down, I posted something very similar above. He’s extremely negative, and there’s a notable lack of any positive to balance it out. What’s the payoff for all this work?
While I think her 40-something body is rocking, that dress is just meh. It’s all: “Look at me!”
But Jada has always liked the attention. I went to college in Baltimore (Jada grew up there) and knew a guy who went to high school with her. He implied she was an attention diva long before she ever went to Hollywood. The Scientology connection just turns me off both of them anymore.
Oh lord, is she only 40 something? I always thought she was mid 50’s and looks great. Eek.
Will looks like he had found the fountain of youth or something. Whatever she’s done to her face is making her look harder, older.
Lovely figure, but no to both dresses.
Jada has always looked hard even when she was younger.
Nope he just found botox. Remember his forehead lines? Gone…
Jada looks like a mannequin….I don’t think her face could move if a spider started crawling up it…and that dress…dear God…Jada, you are a pretty women, stop with the botox, put on some underwear, and embrace your natural beauty!!! Seriously, her face looks like it was carved from stone!!!!
I think it’s a refreshing change when the married movie star photographed staring at a woman’s cleavage is looking at his wife!
Being married to her must be like being married to Attila the Hun. She once said she “only eats to get proper nutrition so she can work out constantly”. What a sad way to live, that she won’t even lighten up to eat something delicious….
Ah, the agonizing torture is starting to make sense. She never eats for pleasure? I agree that is so sad. To each their own, but I derive so much pleasure from food. I could never live like that.
I know a guy who knows Will Smith. He told me Will is just a regular guy. No airs about him at all. Very down to earth……his wife however is a dragon.
I’d believe that.
The actress in one of the Bad Boys installments said Jada came on set and watched him like a hawk and was suspicious of her (the co-star).
This isn’t a look I’d wear in front of a majillion cameras, but I could be persuaded for a private party — at my age. ‘Cos otherwise my kids will be at whatever it is, going ‘Can I get naked too?’
They so have an open marriage!
I think they will last the distance as long as Jada can continue with her bisexual flings on the side and Will can “ask for permission” whenever he “needs to sleep with someone else.” Welcome to “hard work” in marriage 21st century style.
Foxx is a much better actor. Will Smith doesn’t take risks with his roles and acting, and will turn down something like Django but accept something like Suicide Squad and Focus without hesitation. Quibbling over the story? OMG. And he had no problems with the utterly stupid script in Focus. More like he was worried it wouldn’t be a box office hit.
You know, I would LOOOOOOOOOVE Jada’s dress if the bottom were completely opaque. Oh yes, I will squee over those ice-dancer star-burst pseudo-pasties; I love me some sequins.
But either show off your boobs or your legs, not both, simply because you start to look too naked and the effect becomes, “She’s naked,” rather than “She’s stunning.”
And Jada IS stunning. She looks amazing.
I like them. Recently saw Jada do an interview identifying the partially clad bodies of fellow actors in a run-up promo for Magic Mike XXL. It was a yawn until she squealed and identified one of the pictures as belonging to Will. The picture was of his abs. I was impressed by both her naturalness and excitement when she called it.
For some reason it bugs me that he says he’s been married 20 years. He got married in 1997 (as did I) – it’s 18 years, dude. As for me, my marriage is mostly good. I would never say that it’s been excruciating, but good luck to the King and Queen.
Well, his marriage has been so excruciating, it just seems like 20 years….
Or maybe they’ve been together 20 years?
*axel* 😉
strangely, I don’t hear his comments as shade for Jada or their marriage at all. it just sounds honest to me. I’ve never been married, but every relationship I’ve had – for every glorious, wonderful moment, there was a challenging, difficult one. I think that’s just how it goes. i like that he’s honest about it.
Oh my God – that third photograph, though – those are the tensest smiles I’ve ever seen.
Jamie Foxx was a far better choice for that role
It’s not that my husband and I don’t disagree or haven’t had rough patches, but I don’t think I would ever use language like that. Marriage has never seemed like work (dealing with in-laws, yes).
Jada looks like a 65 year old woman.
I agree that marriage is work and I don’t think they should shy away from that and make it seem like their marriage is all unicorns and rainbows. But everytime one of them speak about their marriage it always seems like its more negative than positive. It just makes me feel like their marriage is really done but they have legally stayed together for either the church or for their public image. Or both.
I’ve never understood this whole thing about marriage being hard work. I guess I’m one of the lucky ones but I waited till I found the right partner–early 30s–and my life has gotten better for having him in my life. I would never describe the marriage as “excruciating” or “hard work.” So I wonder why they got together in the first place.