Though some advise in opposition to working with animals, Will Smith is fondly remembering his time with man’s finest co-star.
The Academy Award winner reminisced about his canine scene associate Abbey from the 2007 film I Am Legend being “an excellent actress” as he admitted to making an attempt to undertake the German Shepherd, who was recognized for upstaging him within the blockbuster.
“It was like Abbey spoke English. … Like, she actually might perceive you, it was the weirdest factor,” recalled Smith on the most recent episode of Scorching Ones.
Sadly, he wasn’t capable of take Abbey house as she “was the breadwinner of her household, and she or he needed to keep,” Smith informed host Sean Evans.
Loosely primarily based on the 1954 novel by Richard Matheson, Smith starred in I Am Legend as US Military virologist Robert Neville, who’s the final residing human in New York, which has been overrun by nocturnal mutants. Whereas making an attempt to formulate a treatment for the virus, Neville’s solely companion is his canine Sam (Abbey).
Abbey the German Shepherd and Will Smith star in 2007’s I Am Legend. Credit score: Warner Bros.
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Recounting a heartbreaking scene by which Sam turns into contaminated and Neville has to overhaul her, Smith stated, “Abbey’s doing that. He skilled Abbey to go limp and I laid her [down]. How do you prepare a canine to go limp?”
“It was like working with an excellent actress,” added Smith.
In April, Smith paid tribute to Abbey for Nationwide Pet Day with a video montage of the duo set to an emotional music. “The goodness lady,” he captioned the put up.
After he and Smith had been introduced in 2022 to co-produce and co-star in an I Am Legend sequel, Michael B. Jordan informed Folks this week that the film remains to be “within the works.”
“We’re nonetheless engaged on the script and getting that as much as par. It doesn’t have a launch date or something like that,” he famous. “I’m undecided precisely the place we’re going to be filming that one, however I’m actually excited to get in entrance of the digicam with him. Being any individual that I’ve appeared as much as for a extremely very long time, to have the ability to work with Will is one thing I’m actually wanting ahead to. I’m actually excited.”