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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Inga Parkel

Will Smith calls first film since Oscar slap ‘poetic perfection’

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Will Smith has expressed gratitude for his first film since the infamous Oscar slap in March.

Smith, 54, leads director Antoine Fuqua’s action thriller, Emancipation, as the newly freed slave Peter, whose escape from a Louisiana plantation gives way to a torturous journey north towards safety.

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