Will Smith sparked mahem in a US chain cinema after he was noticed secretly attending a public screening of his new movie, Dangerous Boys: Experience or Die.
The actor, 55, seems alongside Martin Lawrence within the motion blockbuster, which is the third sequel to 1995’s buddy cop hit Dangerous Boys.
In a video that has gone viral on TikTok, Smith may be seen exiting an auditorium in Cinemark Baldwin Hills Crenshaw, a Los Angeles cinema, following a displaying of the movie.
Followers shortly recognise the actor, and start swarming round him and taking images in what Deadline has described as a “frenzy”.
“Hey, I’m glad y’all loved that. That was a very good film,” Smith may be heard telling the opposite cinemagoers.
Alongside the video, the TikTok person in attendance wrote: “Shock, once you stroll out of Dangerous Boys film and Will Smith walks out with you after having watched the film with you!! Solely at CINEMARK!”
Smith additionally shared footage from the day on his personal Instagram web page, describing it as a “ritual” of his to attend public showings of his films.
“I snuck into @badboys in Baldwin Hills final night time,” he wrote in an Instagram reel on Saturday (8 June). “It was SPECTABULOUS! The place ought to I am going subsequent?
“We’re in Baldwin Hills, we’re about to enter the theater. It’s a ritual I’ve. I do it when I’ve a film come out – on Friday, Saturday, there’s normally a matinee on Sunday – I am going into theaters.”
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Dangerous Boys: Experience or Die has been broadly described as a comeback movie for Smith, arriving simply over two years after he sensationally slapped comic Chris Rock on stage on the Academy Awards.
For the reason that incident, which landed Smith with a 10-year ban from attending any Academy occasions, Smith has largely stayed out of the general public eye, and his solely movie launch till now was 2022’s Emancipation, a slavery drama filmed earlier than the Oscars incident.
Dangerous Boys: Experience or Die loved an unexpectedly sturdy opening weekend on the field workplace, grossing over $104m globally. The determine places it on monitor to rank as one of many greatest movies of the yr, and represents the second-highest opening for the franchise, after 2020’s Dangerous Boys for Life.
Smith can be at the moment set to star in a 2025 sequel to The Karate Child, and also will characteristic in a forthcoming sequel to his hit 2007 post-apocalyptic drama I Am Legend.
