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Michael Koresky is a writer, editor, and filmmaker in Brooklyn. After telling Elizabeth (Heather Graham) about his night with Paul (Will Smith), Rick (Eric Thal) reveals the outcome of his adventures that evening. Enter your email address below to subscribe. Friends and allies: Jodie Foster's Home for the Holidays is a Thanksgiving classic that understands deeply the comfort and the harm that family can offer. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly in , Will Smith explained how he regretted not doing the male-on-male kissing scene that director Fred Schepisi had planned out for his character Paul, who.

After telling Elizabeth (Heather Graham) about his night with Paul (Will Smith), Rick (Eric Thal) reveals the outcome of his adventures that evening. Will Smith Gay SCENE 🤔 by Lakeshia Carter • Playlist • 26 videos • 86, views. After all, Paul, who wants nothing more than to be an inside man, to be accepted, to be loved and to be understood, is perhaps most defined by false confidence. Fascinatingly, Guare is not content to simply mark Paul as an outsider to this privileged world through his blackness or his poverty; Paul is further queered by his homosexuality, which is discovered by Ouisa in the most direct way possible.

So, how did Will Smith react? In the years since Six Degrees, the actor has spoken about his reluctance to perform the gay love scenes for fear of them damaging his career. As has been widely reported and mocked, Will Smith, fresh off The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and protective of his burgeoning stardom, refused to lock lips with co-star Anthony Michael Hall during a crucial scene.

(Smith and his male consorts never even kiss.). (Smith and his male consorts never even kiss.). By Michael Koresky on June 5, In this biweekly column, I look back through a century of cinema for traces of queerness, whether in plain sight or under the surface. Will Smith's Gay Movie "Six Degrees of Separation" The Black Gay History Channel K subscribers Subscribed.

Strapped for cash, Rick later throws himself out his apartment window. In the years since Six Degrees, the actor has spoken about his reluctance to perform the gay love scenes for fear of them damaging his career. However, one person who had an unexpected reaction to Jaden’s stunt was his dad Will Smith. Why, after all, should they distrust this handsome, upstanding man with a minutely detailed back story, given to brilliant soliloquies based on his senior thesis which he claims was stolen by the mugger on The Catcher in the Rye and the power of the imagination.

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly in , Will Smith explained how he regretted not doing the male-on-male kissing scene that director Fred Schepisi had planned out for his character Paul, who. We come to discover, later in the film, that Paul was not very long ago homeless on the streets of Boston, and he has been pulling the same routine with a group of upper-crust families, all connected via their Ivy League—attending kids.

WILL SMITH revealed there was a gay love scene in Suicide Squad between Deadshot and Joel Kinnaman's Rick Flag. WARNING: CLIP INCLUDES ADULT . “Will Smith refused to kiss Anthony Michael Hall just before their kissing scene, so a camera trick was used showing only the backs of their heads. WARNING: CLIP INCLUDES ADULT CONTENT. Paul suggests they stay in, offering to cook as thanks for taking care of him—which of course gives him the chance to further luxuriate in the apartment, the real reason for his arrival.

As has been widely reported and mocked, Will Smith, fresh off The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and protective of his burgeoning stardom, refused to lock lips with co-star Anthony Michael Hall during a crucial scene. Allowing a sex worker—and a gay one at that—to cross the threshold of this easily breached apartment is the bridge too far. After telling Elizabeth (Heather Graham) about his night with Paul (Will Smith), Rick (Eric Thal) reveals the outcome of his adventures that evening.

By not allowing their lips to meet, the film misses out on sufficiently communicating this complex power move on the part of both men, as well as a moment of erotic catharsis that effectively sets the part in motion. Allow me to break it down for you in this video. In an interview, Smith stated that Denzel Washington advised him not to kiss a man on-screen, for it would harm his career.”.

The result is a flagrant and prototypical movie cheat, in which strategically placed backs of heads and judicious editing are meant to create the illusion that the two actors did the deed. Will Smith - In , Will Smith played the role of Paul in Six Degrees of Separation, based on the true-life story of David Hampton, an openly gay con man who managed to convince many people. At the same time, this strange and sad evasion, this missed opportunity, somehow functions in context.

Thoughtful, original film criticism delivered straight to your inbox each week. Read the introductory essay. POST A NICE COMMENT:)WELCOME TO MY CHANNEL Beni88manTHIS IS A GAMING CHANNEL MY FAVORITE GAMES ARE:Adventure Time: The Secret of the Nameless . WARNING: CLIP INCLUDES ADULT CONTENT. Thus the kiss between Paul and Trent is not incidental. As a visual metaphor for the unknowability and doubled nature of the characters—everyone has two sides—the Kandinsky is durable and moving, and works better on film, where it serves as a kind of accent within a densely packed, exquisitely art-directed frame, than it did in the recent Broadway stage revival, where it almost overwhelmed the action, which otherwise took place in a kind of void.

While in most quarters of contemporary culture, such a gesture would be rewarded as brave rather than make him a pariah, the likelihood is slim, reminding us that when it comes to queer representation in contemporary mainstream cinema, it would be best not to look back on such decades-old disappointments with too much cultural superiority. The only real difference between then and now is that in an actual film version of Cats is imminent.