I fell in love with this character more than 20 years ago", played by Will Smith as "The Father of Big and Small"

Source: Global Times

[Global Times special correspondent Han Lin] Starring Hollywood African American film star Will Smith, the biographical film "King Richard", which shows the legendary "Father of the Williams Sisters" in the tennis world, will be released in North American theaters and streaming media on the 19th, and the media predicts that Smith is expected to win the Oscar he has not been able to win with this film.

"King Richard" recreates on screen how Venus Williams and Serena Williams' father, Richard Williams, raised their two daughters to grand slam titles on a dilapidated public tennis court in Kempton, California.

"I fell in love with the character of Richard more than 20 years ago, and now I have the opportunity to be part of this family and the first thing I have to do is show the world how a father protects his daughter," Smith said. "King Richard premiered at the Telluride Film Festival in September, and the plot and Smith's performance were well received.

This isn't the first time Smith has been exposed to a biopic or sports subject, having played the great boxer in 2001's "Ali the Boxer" and was nominated for an Oscar for best actor for that role. In recent years, although Smith starred in "Aladdin" and other blockbuster films, but has not been awarded, he and his wife have also launched a boycott because the Oscar nominations for people of color are too small, this time "King Richard" if it can help him to enter the shortlist, Smith or will be a "movie emperor dream".