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A30 PEOPLE & ARTS
Saturday 23 december 2017
What makes Will Smith’s world

‘Bright’ _ money, he jokes

By NICOLE EVATT signed to reunite with the ger scale that are in place
Associated Press rookie Nick Jakoby, the first in order to allow people to
LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Just Orc to serve with the LAPD. feel OK about treating oth-
money. Lots of money.” Jakoby is played by Joel er people badly became
So goes Will Smith’s tongue- Edgerton. more and more a sort of
in-cheek summation of why Edgerton joined Smith dur- magnify thing, I think, as we
he took on what has turned ing a recent round of in- were making it.”
into one of the worst re- terviews in Los Angeles Smith considers science
viewed films of the season, and agreed that the issue fiction “emotionally dis-
In this Dec. 15, 2017 photo, Will Smith poses for photographers the big-budget Netflix re- of racism grew more and tant and safe for the au-
upon arrival at the European premiere of the Netflix film ‘Bright’
in London. Smith is at it again as a sci-fi cop in the new Netflix lease “Bright.” more important as filming dience, so you get to talk
film “Bright.” T The seasoned film cop and went on. about things and say and
Associated Press science fiction star does “Not because the topic do things that you really
it all over again, playing suddenly became a more couldn’t if you were trying
a police officer with racist kind of evolved or new top- to hit the subject on the
feelings against his other- ic,” Edgerton said. “It just so head.”
worldly partner who hap- happened that there are a That’s exactly what his
pens to be an Orc in a land lot of really bad things hap- character does, he said,
also occupied by Elves, pening that were news- going “straight down the
Fairies and at least one worthy. And when things middle on the insanity of
Centaur. become newsworthy, un- these racist concepts, but
Smith’s Officer Ward has fortunately the subject of it doesn’t feel like that be-
just returned to the job af- how we treat each other cause of the nature of the
ter being shot and is as- and the policies on a big- world.”q