Will Smith on how Steven Spielberg convinced him to be part of “Men in black”

According Will Smith, he had no plans of featured in tho blockbuster “Men in black” until the executive producer of the epic film Steven Spielberg personally reached out to him in a fancy way.

The actor revealed this on Kevin Hart’s “Hart to Heart” show. He said Steven Spielberg, who served as executive producer on Men in Black, wasn’t going to take no for an answer, so he personally contacted Smith to try and convince him to do the film.

“Steven Spielberg sent a helicopter for me,” Smith recalled. “I was in New York. To talk to me. … It landed at his house. And he had me at hello. … And it was the first time I ever had lemonade with carbonated water. You can’t say no to that.”

“He said the coldest shit,” the actor quipped. “He said, ‘Tell me, tell me why you don’t want to make my movie. And he was the producer. … And he put the ellipsis at the end, it was the dot, dot, dot. … If he had continued, he would have said, ‘Joker, you know I made Jaws, right? You know I made E.T.’”

He also revealed that his former manager and business partner James Lassiter was instrumental in his decision to star in some of his notable movies including “Pursuit of Happiness”

“In the heyday, the 10 movies I made at the top of my career, JL was choosing the films,” he said. “He just, he just had an eye, I didn’t want to make Pursuit of Happyness. I didn’t want to make Ali. … And JL picked Men in Black. I kind of understood Men in Black a little bit but I didn’t want to make Men in Black.” He revealed  on the show.