Will Smith says he was spit on by White actor while filming 'Emancipation'

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Will Smith got emotional when he revealed he was spit on by a White actor while filming "Emancipation." Smith appeared at the 14th annual African American Film Critics Association Awards on Wednesday night to accept the Beacon Award. "'Emancipation' was the most individual difficult film of my entire career," Smith said after director Antoine Fuqua spoke, via "Entertainment Tonight." "It’s really difficult to transport a modern mind to that time period.

It’s difficult to imagine that, that level of inhumanity." "It was the second day of shooting and 110 degrees," he said. "I was in a scene with one of the White actors, and we had our lines, and the actor decided to ad-lib.

So, we’re doing the scene. I did my line. He did his line. And then he ad-libbed and spit in the middle of my chest. If I had pearls on, I definitely would’ve clutched them.

I wanted to say, ‘Antoineeeeee,’ but I stopped, and I realized that Peter couldn’t have called the director." Inspired by an iconic 1863 photo of the scarred back of "Whipped Peter," Smith portrays the character Peter – a man who attempts to escape slavery while he uses his wits to dodge slave hunters and brave alligator-infested Louisiana swamps in his quest for freedom. "I sat there, and I took a deep breath, and we did take two, and the actor felt that the ad-lib had gone well.