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Will Smith responds to ‘disgusting Hitler lie’
Will Smith often speaks his mine about many subjects, but I was very surprise by some quotes alleged to have come from him regarding Adolf Hitler reported by a in a Scottish newspaper. Now Will Smith has responded to this article and he is obviously angry at the reporter who he says misuesd his power of the press.
In the original story published in Britain’s Daily Record newspaper, the Smith, was quoted as saying:
“Even Hitler didn’t wake up going, ‘let me do the most evil thing I can do today’.
“I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was ‘good’.”
The quote was preceded by the writer’s observation: “Remarkably, Will believes everyone is basically good.”
Over the weekend, dozens of celebrity gossip websites jumped on these comments with, many saying that Smith believed that Hitler was a “good” person.
Here is Will Smith’s response to the alleged quotes he made:
“It is an awful and disgusting lie,” Smith said in a statement.
“It speaks to the dangerous power of an ignorant person with a pen. I am incensed and infuriated to have to respond to such ludicrous misinterpretation.”
“Adolf Hitler was a vile, heinous vicious killer responsible for one of the greatest acts of evil committed on this planet.”
I am glad to see Will Smith has come out quickly to try to set the record straight.
It really is pathetic when people take a comment like this and see what negative they can pull out of it. I know exactly what Will Smith meant. What he means is that, in HITLER’S MIND, he thought what he was doing was good. I truly believe that as well. He likely thought he was going to heaven too. Lighten up people, and consider who’s making the statement, and their history, before you make a ridiculous claim about his intent like this. THIS is one of the major problems we should be worried about, that of politically correctness methodically removing everyone’s sense of humor, or desire to express it.
Something that actors talk about in acting school all the time, and this is of course the most extreme example, is of how to portray a character like Adolf Hitler. It goes with out saying that Hitler was an awful, horrible, evil dictator, the lowest form of humanity. Everyone knows he was a callous and brutal mass murderer.
But as an actor, one has to make choices about how to portray a character to make that character believable.
Which is more frightening: to imagine Hitler as as an evil villain and play up his villainy or to imagine him as a person who believed that what he was doing was the right thing?
Will Smith was doing nothing more than regurgitating an often discussed topic among actors. I can guarantee you he was completely misinterpreted by the writer.