‘It went viral’: Will Smith jokes after testing positive for Covid and not being able to surprise audiences at screening of his movie Emancipation
Will Smith has been viral, but not in a good way.
The 54-year-old actor was planning to surprise the audience who had just watched his movie, Emancipation, but ended up testing positive for Covid, and participating. A video showing how he took a Covid test before it came out.
Will seemed to take the news well, writing a hilarious “It went viral” next to the video on social media.
Viral: Will Smith uses a playful play on the words ‘it’s gone viral’ as the actor reveals he has Covid-19
Show participants are often required to test negative before they can attend the event.
The action star showed no signs of illness, but gave exaggerated cries of pain as the test swab swirled around his nasal passages, and was shocked when, one hour later, he got a positive result.
Instead of speaking to the audience in person, the Oscar winner met with them via Zoom, sitting in front of a laptop.
Surprise: The actor was hoping to surprise the audience who had just seen his new movie, Emancipation, but couldn’t make it
No signs: The action star showed no signs of illness, and was shocked when, one hour later, he got a positive result
Zoom: Instead of speaking to the audience in person, the Oscar winner met with them via Zoom, sitting in front of a laptop. “The test result was positive,” he said.
“They tested positive,” he explained, “I’ve had them do it over and over again, so I’m sure of it.”
Power Book II: “Get this guy some soup!” wrote actor Lovell Adams Gray in the comments.
In Emancipation, Will takes on a difficult role as an enslaved man who escapes from slavery and must rely on his wits and faith as he is chased across the swamps of Louisiana by his slaves.
Challenging Role: Will played a difficult breakout role as an enslaved man who escapes from slavery and must rely on his wits and faith while being chased across the swamps of Louisiana by his slaves
The film was inspired by photographs released in 1863 that showed the disfigured back of a black man who had been cruelly flogged by his slaves, and helped increase opposition to slavery during the American Civil War. The movie will hit theaters December 2 and will be shown on Apple TV+ starting December 9.
The project is the actor’s first film to be released since the infamous incident at the Oscars where he slapped host Chris Rock for cracking a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head.
The actress suffers from alopecia areata, an autoimmune disease that causes hair loss.
Controversy: The project is the actor’s first movie to be released since the infamous incident at the Oscars where he slapped host Chris Rock for making a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith
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