“Never make anything better than this” – The Will Smith Movie After Which His Kids Wanted Him to Quit Acting

Published 03/28/2023, 5:30 AM EDT

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Will Smith has stunned in numerous box office record-breaking movies in his acting career spanning over three decades. Smith paved his way from nadir to pinnacle through his stellar performance in no matter what genre he starred in. Be it eye-opening and heartfelt movies like The Pursuit of Happyness or patriotic movies such as Independence Day, Smith conquers irrespective of the genre. Safe to say that the award-winning actor has many fans. In most cases, no matter how great the star is, they are humbled by their family. However, once Will Smith managed to blur the lines between fans and family as he left them all awestruck with his work.

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When you think of the Independence Day actor’s best works, show-stopping pieces such as I Am Legend, The Pursuit of Happyness, Bad Boys, and Men In Black come to mind. However, his family’s opinion differs from that of the masses in this case.

Which Will Smith movie is his kids’ favorite?

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Talent, especially pertaining to acting, runs in the Smith family. A testament to this is Jaden Smith’s goosebumps-inducing performance in The Pursuit of Happyness and then again in The Karate Kid alongside legendary actor Jackie Chan. Another Smith kid who stunned with their acting performance at the age of seven in I Am Legend is Willow Smith. The eldest of Will Smith’s kids also has done his fair share of small acting gigs. Safe to say, they are all qualified to be critics. And they picked Suicide Squad as his best work. “They said this is it. I’ll never make anything better than this,” Smith revealed in 2016, as reported by ET.

The family consensus was in synch with popular opinion. In his career that boasts numerous amazing movies, Suicide Squad was another addition. With a box office collection of a whopping $747 million over a budget of $175 million, it is no surprise that Smith’s kids watched the movie twice.

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Will the actor ever play Deadshot again?

Despite the success of Suicide Squad, which had every element from a star-studded cast to a stellar plot going for it, Will Smith has been quiet about Deadshot. He did not show up in the sequel as well, citing ‘conflicting schedules’ as the reason.

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While the actor may have been quiet about the franchise, Suicide Squad fandom is an avid Will Smith seeker and they are manifesting his return to Suicide Squad with a third installment of the franchise.

Do you agree will Will Smith’s kids? Let us know in the comments below.

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Aliza Siddiqui

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Aliza Siddiqui is a writer at Netflix Junkie. She headed the Korean Wave team at a reputed organization for over a year and had over 1000 published articles on the subject to her name. She is currently persuing a degree in Psychology from Ewing Christin College.

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