Fresh Air Weekend review Dave Grohl and Will Smith interview

Fresh Air Weekend features probably the best celebrity interviews and reviews for MarkMeets including a chat with the one and only Will Smith.

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Our new weekend show underscores interviews with scholars, producers, entertainers and artists, and frequently incorporates extracts from live in-studio shows. This week:

Dave Grohl backtracks his invigorating way from Nirvana to Foo Fighters: After Nirvana finished, Grohl didn’t know he needed to keep making music. Yet, he says, “I understood that music was the one thing that had recuperated me my whole life.” His diary is The Storyteller.

Rough manliness takes a dim turn in ‘The Power of the Dog’: Jane Campion’s Western plays out like a firmly wound thrill ride, including Benedict Cumberbatch as probably the most frightening person you’re probably going to meet this year.

Will Smith says he created an euphoric picture to cover the aggravation of the past: As a kid, Smith observed powerlessly as his dad beat his mom. The experience molded him: “The psychological pain that I needed to defeat was a major piece of me developing into the individual I am today.”

The world knows Will Smith as an artist, a jokester and blockbuster famous actor — maybe even the most bankable star on the planet. However, in his new diary, called Will, Smith investigates another personality, one that has filled his immovable hard working attitude: that of a weakling.

Smith says that when he was 9, he held on, observing powerlessly as his dad beat his mom. It was a second that formed his personality.

“I was unable to shake the possibility that I had bombed my mom and I was some way or another dishonorable of adoration and care as a result of my weakness,” he says. “What’s more, that [was] the beginnings of needing to overachieve and needing to make and needing to win and needing to fabricate an outer life that could some way or another and ideally cover the aggravation.”

I’m happier than I have ever been. And it is largely based on the perception of myself that I can survive anything.”
Will Smith

With his “New Prince” rap persona, Smith arrived up on a person that offered an offset to what he was feeling: “That light, glad, happy picture [of the Fresh Prince] was covered up a center of a genuine absence of confidence and self esteem,” he says.

Smith proceeded to star (and later produce) the 1990s sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, which depended on that persona. After the show finished, he went to motion pictures, remembering the Men for Black movies, Independence Day and I Am Legend. He’s presently featuring as the dad of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams in King Richard.

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Thinking back now, Smith says he wouldn’t change the affliction he encountered as a kid: “Those challenges and those injuries and the psychological torment that I needed to defeat was a major piece of me developing into the individual I am today, and I love my life. I’m more joyful than ever. Also, it is to a great extent dependent on the impression of myself that I can endure anything.”