Will Smith's TV aunt was making about $250,000 a year. In 1993, she lost all of it. Will went on the radio and said she'd gone "from a quarter of a million dollars a year to nothing."
She had a newborn baby at home. She didn't speak to him for 27 years.
In the video below, Janet Hubert finally says it to his face: "You took all that away from me with your words."
In 1993, she was offered a new contract. About two and a half months of work a year, less money, and no other jobs allowed.
Her husband was out of work. She says the marriage was abusive. She said no.
The new season opened with a joke. Jazz said something was different about Aunt Viv since she had the baby.
On that Atlanta radio show, Will added: "She's mad now, but she's been mad all along."
The word that followed her was "difficult." For a Black woman in Hollywood, she says, it's "the kiss of death." She says she lost "everything. Reputation, everything."
The case for Will: he was in his early 20s, carrying his first show. The contract came from the producers, not from him. And she turned it down.
27 years later, he told her: "The person I want to be is someone who protects you, not someone that unleashes dogs on you."
He went on to make $20 million per movie. She waited 28 years for her next recurring TV role.
So did Will Smith ruin Aunt Viv's career, or did she ruin it herself?
Riley Reid admits she didn't save money for her taxes and needed about 20 grand fast - so she shot her first anal scene
“I remember when I first started doing porn, like, I shot my first anal scene because I didn't save my money to pay my taxes.”
“So I was like, ‘I need about 20 grand real quick. How can I... do that in this amount of time?’”
“Guess I'm shooting my first anal scene.”
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Johnny Depp’s sinking-boat entrance in Pirates of the Caribbean (2003). Depp sat in a 200°F sauna to develop Jack Sparrow’s movements, and had gold veneers bonded onto his real teeth. He told GQ that 30 minutes in the heat helped inspire the pirate’s body language. The dental work stayed with him off camera.
Jenna Ortega admits Wednesday Addams permanently fried her brain, forcing her to play a violently cheerful robot just to relearn how to smile.
"I did actually was quite interested in the script because it was very different from everything else that I had been receiving".
"After Wednesday I felt like I was getting a lot of teenager angsty upset so it was kind of hard to get onto a job that wasn't that".
"so this was very different for me this character is very well she's not real, but she's very happy and overly excited about everything like to a fault almost".
"so that was kind of an interesting challenge but then it's also based off of a book by Ishiguro who did Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go, incredible award winning author".
Buddy passed at 6:27am this morning. He was with me, sleeping on my chest. I have learned so much through this experience. If I had to do it again, I probably would have taken him in to be humanely euthanized after 2-3 tube feedings didn’t result in any major turnaround.
22 years ago today, Eminem released the “Mosh” music video, urging fans to vote George W. Bush out of office 🗳️ (2004)
It premiered online one week before the election.