Will Smith: Off the Deep End yesterday (August 11), which shows the film and TV star swim with a tiger shark.In the programme, Smith is seen addressing his fears, revealing that he was so terrified of sharks that he didn’t learn to swim until he was in his 40s.“I blame Steven Spielberg,” Smith says in the programme, referring to the director’s classic film Jaws (1975). “I was literally scared in the bathtub.
I literally felt like a shark could come out of the spout.”But Smith added that he’s become more determined to conquer his fears as he’s got older. “I am a firm believer that fear creates the greatest atrocities and evils that have ever been committed on this planet,” Smith said of the diving challenge.“Fear is poison and I’m gonna.
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