An interview Will Smith sat for simply months earlier than his Oscars outburst in March has aired on Netflix’s sequence, My Subsequent Visitor Wants No Introduction with David Letterman.
“The episode was recorded previous to the 2022 Academy Awards ceremony,” a disclaimer originally of the episode learn. Within the filmed interview, which aired on Might 20 however was filmed in January this 12 months, Smith gave an perception into his life and profession within the hour-long chat.
Nonetheless, it was the actor’s eerie premonition about dropping his profession and his “entire life getting destroyed” whereas underneath the affect of ayahuasca – an unlawful natural drink with hallucinogenic properties – that basically sparked viewers’ consideration.
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“I drank, and it often takes about 45 minutes to kick in. And I am sitting there and also you at all times really feel like, ‘Perhaps it will not kick on this time’,” Will mentioned, including that he took the hallucinogenic 14 occasions over the course of two years.
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“So I am ingesting and sitting there after which impulsively it is like I begin seeing all of my cash flying away, and my home is flying away and my profession goes away.”
The actor then recalled his 21-year-old daughter, Willow, showing in his imaginative and prescient earlier than studying that each one the materialistic issues not mattered.
“Then slowly, I ended caring about my cash, I simply wished to get to Willow,” he mentioned. “I ended caring about my home, I ended caring about my profession.”
This led him to conclude that “something that occurs in my life, I can deal with it”.
“I can deal with any particular person I lose, I can deal with something that goes unsuitable in my life, I can deal with something in my marriage. I can deal with something that this life has to supply me,” he mentioned.
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In an eerie twist, Smith’s profession imploded two months later on the 2022 Oscars, when he slapped comic Chris Rock for making a joke about spouse Jada Pinkett Smith‘s hair.
“Preserve my spouse’s title out of your f—ing mouth,” Smith yelled from his chair after the slap.
Netflix viewers had been fast to level out the eerie foretelling on Twitter.
“Wow. Simply watched David Letterman’s My Subsequent Visitor on @Netflix wth visitor Will Smith taped earlier than the Oscars. Very eerie foreshadowing,” wrote on, whereas one other mentioned: “The pre-Oscars Will Smith interview with Letterman on his Netflix sequence… form of jaw-dropping. The ayahuasca story! Holy cow. Eerie.”
One other remark learn: “The #WillSmith episode of Letterman actually lands otherwise after the Oscar slap. An actual wrestle to look at.”
In one other parallel, Smith additionally warned Letterman about speaking in regards to the actor’s mom, Caroline Vibrant – albeit playfully. When the talk-show host wished clarification as to what Smith referred to as his mom – “mom-mom” not simply “mother'” – the actor appeared to get aggressive earlier than bursting out in laughter.
“Do not say nothin’ ’bout my mom, Dave,” Smith joked.
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