Emancipation star Charmaine Bingwa recently lauded her co-star Will Smith for his “marvellous” acting in the new movie.Speaking with PEOPLE at Los Angeles premiere of the movie,.
It comes as some relief that Antoine Fuqua’s “Emancipation,” starring Will Smith as a runaway slave in Civil War-era Louisiana, is not, at least traditionally speaking, an Oscar movie. Despite the film’s important historical backdrop, its awards-season timing and its inevitable connection to last March’s Academy Awards ceremony, the site
Less than a year after his infamous slap, Smith is back on screen in an Oscar contender and I’m left wrestling with the question of to see or not see the movie.
Smith plays Peter, the enslaved Black man whose escape to freedom helped galvanizes the abolitionist movement, in this grueling Civil War-era action-drama from director Antoine Fuqua.