'After the film wrapped, Sheree and Trey and I moved back to LA,' which is where he was 'desperately yearning to see and speak to Stockard.' And to make matters worse, during shooting I fell in love with Stockard Channing,' added Will, who was already a star then from Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air.
'She'd married a guy named Will Smith and now she was living with a guy named Paul Poitier. '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,' the movie star wrote in his upcoming book Will. In a story inspired by reality, he starred in the film as a con man who persuades a couple played by Stockard and Donald Sutherland that he is Sidney Poitier's son. Will married Sheree in May 1992 six months before their child was born - and then she had to contend with his Method acting for Six Degrees Of Separation. I found myself desperately yearning to see and speak to Stockard,' he wrote in his upcoming memoir which People has excerpted, while noting that nothing came of his feelings. Harris's brilliant CHAMELEON STREET (1991).Will Smith has revealed he 'fell in love with Stockard Channing' while they filmed their 1993 movie Six Degrees Of Separation.Īt the time Will was 24-years-old and less than a year into his marriage to his first wife Sheree Zampino, who had also just given birth to their son Trey. For a mainstream Hollywood production, the film is refreshingly frank about race and class in the US for a darker, more acerbic variation on the same theme, It is she who invokes the film's title, referring to an oldĬonversational gambit to the effect that any two people in the world can be linked together by a chain of no more than six relationships. But that's only the beginning of their involvement with this offbeat confidence man.Ĭhanning holds this sometimes stagy movie together in the pivotal role of Ouisa, the Park Avenue matron who ultimately snaps when Paul makes her realize the ways in which her privileged status has isolated her from the rest of humanity.
The next morning, however, theyĭiscover Paul in bed with a man he has picked up on the street and throw him out. By the end of the evening he has charmed the initially suspicious Kittredges with his culinary and elocutionary talents-so much so that they invite him to stay the night. Poitier and a college friend of the Kittredges' children, says he's been wounded by muggers. Paul (Will Smith), who claims to be the son of Sidney Witty, wordy, well-acted satire of contemporary class and race relations, based on John Guare's acclaimed stage play.Īrt dealers Ouisa and Flan Kittredge (Stockard Channing, Donald Sutherland) are entertaining a rich South African business partner (Ian McKellen) in their posh Fifth Avenue apartment when a suave and personable young black man bursts in.
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