That's the juiciest anecdote you'll get from the 'collectible booklet' on this DVD. It was years before 'Independence Day' and 'Men in Black,' and when he tried to explain to a disgruntled bystander that he was monopolizing a phone booth because he was making a movie, the bystander replied, 'If Denzel Washington ain't here, you ain't making no movie.' Will Smith got no respect as a movie star when he made 'Six Degrees of Separation' on the streets of Manhattan in 1993. I was spending-for Six Degrees, I wanted to perform well so badly that I was spending six and seven and eight days in character before shooting, and you have to be careful with that.Starring Stockard Channing, Will Smith, Donald SutherlandĮxtras: 'Collectible booklet,' original theatrical trailer But once I had that experience, I was like, No more Method acting. He continued: 'It is a really dangerous place when you get good at it.

You teach yourself to like things and to dislike things.' You're actually playing around with your psychology.

'That was my last experience with Method acting, where you're reprogramming your mind. I was like, 'Oh no! What have I done?' ' Smith told Esquire. So the movie was over and I went home, and I was dying to see Stockard. And I actually fell in love with Stockard Channing.' 'My character was in love with Stockard Channing's character. 'With Six Degrees of Separation, I got a taste early of the dangers of going too far for a character,' he told the magazine. In a sit-down interview with Esquire in February 2015, Smith talked about the 'dangers' of method acting. The Six Degrees scene in Will is not the first time he's opened up about his feelings for Channing. I found myself desperately yearning to see and speak to Stockard.' 'After the film wrapped, Sheree and Trey and I moved back to L.A,' the actor and singer continues. 'And to make matters worse, during shooting I fell in love with Stockard Channing. 'She'd married a guy named Will Smith and now she was living with a guy named Paul Poitier,' his character's name in the movie. 9 and is exclusively excerpted in this week's issue of PEOPLE. 'Sheree and I were in the first few months of our marriage with a brand-new baby and for Sheree, I can imagine that this experience was unsettling to say the least,' writes Smith, 53, in his memoir, which will go on sale on Nov. As his romantic feelings for Channing grew, their relationship remained professional, the star writes. Smith - who had just welcomed son Trey with his then-wife Sheree Zampino - remained in character even while off the set of the 1993 film.

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