Who said good guys finish last? As evidenced by this, all it takes is meticulous planning and some serious charm to become $4,000,000,000 of global box office appeal. At the age of 38, Will Smith has become Hollywood's most powerful actor and dethroned Tom Cruise in the process. As someone who has followed his career from the days of the seminal summer song, "Summertime", I felt a quiet sense of satisfaction on hearing the news. Six Degrees of Separation proved he could act and over the years, he hasn't been afraid to move out of his comfort zone and take on roles that reinforce this notion. The fact that the Museum of the Moving Image saw fit to honour him proves his acting chops.
What's more he's a family man and any lurid stories are firmly in his past.
At the age of 18, he was declared bankrupt because he forgot the part about paying his taxes and lived it up after the success of "Parents Just Don't Understand" and "Summertime". However, as someone who turned down a scholarship to MIT, he's got a not inconsiderable amount of grey matter and he subsequently put a plan in motion that saw him reach Hollywood's summit 20 years later.
There's a line in one of his songs that goes, "so many zeroes on my cheque, it's like oooooooo!", but then he has always believed there's no limit to what he can achieve if he puts his mind to it.
You could say, he learnt how to fail with the customary aplomb that he does everything else so in the words of Tupac, can you feel me now?!
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