Want all of the “Emancipation” promotion with none of the awkward questions about that Oscars slap that inevitably get posed to Will Smith? Then the movie star’s takeover of his family’s “Red Table Talk” series is just what the doctor ordered.
On Smith’s “Red Table Takeover” with kids Trey, Willow and Jaden — which started streaming Wednesday on Facebook Watch — it was as if the slap never happened. The sit-down began and ended with tales of Smith working on Antoine Fuqua’s “Emancipation,” which premiered Friday on Apple TV+.
The actor described the moment he felt the character of Peter, a man who was enslaved, wash over him. It was the day they were trying on the leg irons and other chains, and footage rolled showing Smith getting chains locked around his ankles, wrists and neck.
