Is Will Smith finally getting a white female love interest or a Black Female Costar??

Will Smith In Talks for Heist Thriller 'Focus'; If a deal makes, Smith would take the role vacated by Ben Affleck.

Focus is a two-hander about a con man who becomes romantically involved with a novice. He is then thrown off his game when the former flame shows up just as he’s staging an elaborate con in Buenos Aires.

Requa and Ficarra wrote the script with their Crazy, Stupid, Love stars Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone in mind but when the actors were unavailable, moved to Ben Affleck and Stewart.

Affleck dropped out in December, causing a new search for a leading man. Sources say in recent weeks Stewart also quietly exited the project.

And now Smith is in talks to take the male lead. If a deal comes together, he would be back in business with Warners, which has been itching to work with the actor since 2007's I Am Legend.

According to Variety and THR, they have: Will Smith is now in talks to star in "Focus." The problem? Now Stewart has dropped out. Per Variety, Stewart left the film because "the age difference between [her and Smith] would be too large a gap"; Smith is 44 years old, while Stewart is just 23 years old. (It should be noted that Affleck is 40 years old.)

To her credit, Stewart was looking forward to the project. "It's a comedy. I'm really excited about it," she told HuffPost Entertainment last year. "We start shooting in April." Or not.

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Okay here we go..We're going to see how this shakes out. We weren't paying attention to casting with his previous films like Hitch, I, Robot or Hancock but NOW we get watch the process..

Heres the history of love interest for Mr. Boxoffice Will Smith:

Will Smith has NEVER had a significant COSTARRING female love interest in any of his films.

Don't get me wrong he's had love interests but none that had equal billing with him. There isn't been a LOVE STORY/COMEDY/DRAMEDY - starring Will Smith AND XXXX

Will Smith has never had a black female love interest in any LOVE story he's done.

Surprisingly he's only done two actual love stories so far, Hitch a romcom with Eva Mendes and Seven Pounds with Rosario Dawson

Will Smith has NEVER had a white female love interest in any of his films.

Self evident.

So will the studios make a bold decision and cast a sista?? IF they did go that way who would have the best chance?


Kerry Washington


Zoe Saldana


Naomie Harris


Beyonce


Paula Patton

Will the studios take the plunge and team Smith up with a white actress? They already dropped Kristin Stewart for "AGE DIFFERENCE" reasons even tho Sean Connery and Michael Douglas have routinely been paired with love interests they 15-20-25 years older than. White actresses that could be up for the part:




Jennifer Lawrence


Scarlett Johansson


Anne Hathaway



Mila Kunis


Jessica Biel


Or will they play it safe and split the difference and get another latina actress


Rosario Dawson


Eva Mendes


Jennifer Lopez


Jessica Alba


Dania Ramirez

 

Kristen stewarts a fuckin airhead anyway

The age difference thing was complete bullshit

Whats the real excuse

 

When the movie has been completed, then I will be interested. At this point in time, let it go through the usual process; auditions.

 

True,it is always speculations when it comes to Will Smith.

 

Maybe she just wanted to shoot with Ben but doesn't like Will.... oh well.

 

They'll get a non-American white woman.

Well, someone had to say it. :smt031

 

Bingo homie

 

well on the bright side at least bw were getting work. but on a sidenote, who wants to see kristen stewart's stale broccoli behind. he needs an alice eve, in a mib 4: j pushes k to the side to to get ms. eve.

 

Shit even that's a stretch

I bet money they'll cast a Latina

As was said before, that's the safe bet and alt to a regular ww

America isn't ready to see a big time flick with lots of ir that doesn't involve the relationship crashing or going through lots of racial bs like save the last dance

Damn dude that's cold

 

Corrected. Cause when its a WM and other kind of woman that shit ends well

 

And why is Zoe Saldana casted as black that chick will tell you she's latina in a heart beat.

 

Cuz her last name is saldana negro

u know that shit ain't black

Don't be mad

Derek jeter says he's black 'allegedly' and he can go either way

 

Must be nice but you wonder if dude wasn't famous would he get away with it.

 

Age difference??? LOL. I love hearing people's agents spin shit, when it's really like, 'We don't want a rising A-lister like Kristen Stewart swap spit with Will Smith and potentially damage her long term brand in Hollywood.'

Tell the truth dammit.:smt021

He will look older obviously than her, but he doesn't look like her father.
Pairing her with Sidney Poitier would be an 'age difference'.

Also, I would bet Will Smith has turned down hundreds of romantic leading roles because he didn't like the script. It's not just that he's not being given those opportunities.

But I agree it still is uncommon to see a top Black male actor cast in any romantic leads no matter the race of his costar.

I knew something was up when Sam Jackson did that remake of Shaft and his character got like NO pussy of any kind!!!
WTF.

Movie focus groups must be telling major studios they're uncomfortable watching a Black man get his groove on all over the silver screen.

 

Unless its porn then they love it lol

 

The United States of Porn.

 

Put it this way...in films where his love interest doesn't have a significant role or is one of many like ensemble casts its usually a black woman..

Films where Will Smiths Character SO has minor role in the story:

ID4 - viv foxx - big ensemble cast - black woman
Enemy Of The State - wife is minor role - regina king - black woman
Ali - bio pic - it is what is - black women
Pursuit of Happyness - wife has minor role - Thandie Newton - black woman
I Am Legend - wife has minor role - Salli Richardson - black woman
Seven Pounds - wife has minor role - Robinne Lee - black woman

Films where Will Smiths character SO has major role in story:

Wild Wild West - love interest has major role - Salma Hayek - latina
MIB 2 - love interest has major role - Rosario Dawson - latina
Hitch - love interest has major role - Eva Mendes - latina
I Am Legend - possible love interest and ONLY SURVIVING ADULT FEMALE in the film - Alice Braga - latina
Seven Pounds - love interest has major role - Rosario Dawson - latina

Films where Will Smiths character has significant contact with a white women:

I, Robot - white woman with major role - Bridget Moynahan - platonic

Hancock - white woman with major role - Charlize Theron - may as well be platonic

Bad Boys - white woman with major role - Tea Leoni - never realized on screen

Men In Black - white woman with major role - Linda Fiorentino - professional relationship

The ONLY film where his love interest play a major role AND was black was Bad Boys 2..out of all those movies

 

Latina it is then

 

Can someone get this boy an application with the FBI damn

 

He forgot six degrees of separation