- Culture
- 02 Aug 16
"My grandmother would have smacked my teeth out of my head if I had referred to a woman as a fat pig"
While promoting his upcoming Suicide Squad film, Will Smith took the time to damn Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
"For a man to be able to publicly refer to a woman as a fat pig, that makes me teary. And for people to applaud, that is absolutely fucking insanity to me", the actor stated.
He added: "If one of my sons, I am getting furious just thinking about it, if one of my sons said that in a public place, they couldn’t even live in my house anymore".
Still, Smith believes that America "won't and...can't" elect Trump.
In terms of Suicide Squad, Smith talked about portraying Deadshot, one of the few villains the actor has portrayed. Noting that he normally plays heroes, Smith stated that the role made him realise "nobody thinks of themselves as bad. People do the things they do because they think they’re right, no matter how evil".
Smith has yet to endorse Hillary Clinton, but he would join a growing list of 90s/early 00s hip-hop titans if he did so. RZA, Ghostface Killah, Pusha T, and Snoop Dogg have all publicly expressed their support for her, with Snoop citing his excitement at the prospect of a female president.
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