Interesting Facts about Will Smith

1. When he was 13 years his parents seperated, but they did not officially divorce until year 2000. That is a difference of about 19 years.

2. He was a millionaire by the time he was 20 years.His full name is Willard Carol Smith, he was born September 25, 1968.

3. He started his career as MC of the Hip-Hop duo  DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, the group gained critical acclaim and won a Grammy for their song "Summertime".

4. Around 1988 and 1989 he underpaid on his taxes and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) took most of his possession and garnished his income. Will Smith became almost bankrupt as a result.

5. In 1990 he stared in the popular television series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air which ran on NBC for 6 years. This show drastically increased his popularity.

6. He met his first wife Sheree Fletcher on location while filming A Different World in 1991.

Will Smith with Sheree Fletcher

7. They divorced in 1995 and Fletcher was paid a lump sum of $900,000 divorce settlement plus $24,000 per month for alimony and child support.This is around $288,000 per year.

8. Will Smith was the first Hip-Hop artist to be nominated for an Academy Award.

9. He met his current wife Jada Pinkett Smith on set while she tried out the role of his girlfriend on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air(1990). But the role eventually went to Nia Long. He and Jada married in 1997.

10. Will Smith can speak Spanish fluently.

11. He loves using the phrase "Aw, hell no!" in all his movies.

12. He has been nominated for four Golden Globe Awards, two Academy Awards and he has won four Grammy Awards.

13. He earned an estimated $80 million between June 1,2007 and June 1,2008 putting him at the top of the Forbes list of HollyWood's  Best Paid Actors.

14. He turned down the role of Neo in The Matrix(1999) choosing instead to take part in the movie Wild Wild West. A decision which he still regrets.

15. He played father and son with Jaden, one of his sons in the movie The Pursuit of Happyness(2006) and the science fiction movie After Earth(2013).

16. Although raised in a Baptist household, he no longer identifies himself as religious but he has expressed some positive interest in Scientology.

17. He has expressed his support for legalizing of same sex marriage.

18. He is 6'2" tall and has attained and maintained that height since he was 13 years.

19. According to Forbes, for each dollar he got paid, his movies averaged $10 of gross income. His estimated net worth is about $240 million.

20. He can solve the Rubik's Cube in under 55 seconds!

21. Will Smith wrote and performed the song "Just the Two of Us" for his first son, Trey Smith.

22. He has 3 children. Son, Willard Smith III(Trey Smith) born on November 11,1992 with Sheree Fletcher.Son, Jaden Christopher Smith born on July 8,1998 and daughter Willow Camille Smith born on October 31,2000 with Jada Pinkett Smith.

Smith with children and current wife, Jada

Some Hollywood Actors Posing With Their Stunt Doubles

Stuntsmen and women are generally unsung heroes of the movie industry.

You think those fancy moves and daring manouvers are made by your favourite actresses and actors? Look again, most of these moves are made by professional stuntspeople acting as body doubles for these movie stars.

But thanks to great editing, matching wardrobe and a body double that looks similar to the movie actors everything works just perfect.

Below are pictures of some Hollywood actors and actresses taken with these professional stuntspeople who acts as their body doubles in movies.

Andrew Garfield with stuntman in The Amazing SpiderMan.

Kirsten Stewart and body double Roberta Murga (Right) 

Harrison Ford with double Vic Armstrong, Indiana Jones.

Regina King with a stuntwoman, Southland (2009).

Michelle Morgan with stunt double Kateri Cowley. 

Shia LaBeouf with a stunt double in Transformers.

Robert Pattinson with stand-in Paul Darnel, Twilight (2008).

Natalie Portman with stunt double in Black Swan

Angelina Jolie with stunt-double Eunice Huthart, Salt (2010).

Daniel Craig with a stunt double on the set of Skyfall (2012)

Jennifer Lopez with stunt double Daniel Arroyo(yes, he is a man).

Kate Beckinsale with stand-in Alicia Vela Bailey, Total Recall (2012)

Rupert Grint with stunt double Anthony Knight. 

Charlize Theron with stunt woman Alicia Vela-Bailey

Dwayne Johnson with double in Pain & Gain.

Emma Watson surrounded by stunt doubles, Harry Porter and the Deathly Hallows (2010).

Gerard  Butler with double Ele Bardha, Machine Gun Preacher (2011).

Kate Winslet and a stunt double, Titanic (1997).

Brad Pitt with stand-in Rick English, World War Z (2013).

Sarah Mitchelle Gellar with stand-in Sophia Crawford, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)

Nicole Kidman with stand-in Alicia Vela-Bailey, Just Go With It (2011)

Joseph Gordon-Levitt with double Austin Horse, Premium Rush (2012).

January Jones with a stand-in on set of X-Men:First Class (2011)

Movie Stars Who Died During Production

1. Jon-Erik Hexum: He was acting on the set of the CBS adventure series "Cover Up" in October 1984 when he picked up a .44 Magnum pistol and mistakenly pulled the trigger. Although the gun was loaded with blanks, the impact fractured his skull and he died a few days later.

Jon-Erik Hexum

2. Vic Morrow: Morrow was killed along with two child actors Myca Dinh Le and Renee Chen in July 1982 when the helicopter they were in crashed during the filming of "Twilight Zone:The Movie".
Vic was decapitated and the child actors died on the scene.

The Scene of his Death, Morrow

3. John Ritter: While on set for the television series "8 Simple Rules For Dating My Teenage Daughter" he collapsed on September 11, 2003. He was quickly rushed to hospital but died later that same evening as a result of complications resulting from a tear in aorta. The television show was later retitled to " 8 Simple Rules".

John Ritter

4. Tyrone Power: Power suffered a heart attack on March 15 1958 while on set acting a fencing scene for the movie "Solomon and Sheba", he died on the way to hospital.

Tyrone Power

5. Redd Foxx: He had become famous for acting a heart attack scene in the 1970's show "Sanford and Son", ironically he died in 1991 of a heart attack while on set of "The Royal Family", he was 68 years.

Redd Foxx

6. Brandon Lee: Brandon, the son of Martial arts and movie legend Bruce Lee died on March 31, 1993 while filming the movie "The Crow".
He died when he was shot on a scene by a blank which contained fragments of a real bullet. Special effects and a body double were used to complete the rest of the movie.

Brandon Lee

7. Martha Mansfield: She died a very tragic and agonising death. In November 1923 she was on set filming "The Warrens of Virginia" and while she was sitting in a car taking a break in-between scenes, a passerby lit a cigarrette and unknowingly flicked the match in her direction.

Martha Mansfield

The match landed on her costume, a giant Civil War -era dress which was highly inflamable, and she went up in flames.

She was severely burnt and died the next day.

8. Steve Irwin: Although not a movie actor, Steve Irwin was an animal enthusiast and a documentary superstar.

Steve Irwin

He was killed by a Stingray while filming a documentary "Ocean's Deadliest". He died on the way to hospital, the day was September 4, 2006.

According to eye witnesses on the scene his last words were, "I am dying".

9. Paul Mantz: He was a dare devil stunt pilot and actor who was known for performing jaw-dropping stunts with planes.

Paul Mantz

He was killed in January 1965 while performing a stunt for "The Flight of the Phoenix". He was flying a plane over the desert when the plane struck a hill and broke into pieces, he was killed instantly.

10. Roy Kinnear: He was filming the movie "The Return of the Musketeers" in Toledo, Spain on September 20, 1988 when he fell from a horse and sustained a broken pelvis. He died the following day from a massive heart attack.

Roy Kinnear

Richard Lester, the film director was so deeply touched by his death that he quit his own film career.

11. Heath Ledger: He had just played The Joker in the movie "The Dark Knight" and was in the middle of acting another movie "The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus" when, on January 28, 2008 he suddenly died in his hotel room of a prescription drugs overdose.

Heath Ledger

His buddies Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrel ultimately played various versions of his character in the movie.

12. Bruce Lee: He was in the middle of filming the movie "Game of Death" in 1973 when he suddenly died. An incomplete version of the movie was released that same year.

Bruce Lee

13. Natalie Wood: She was filming the science fiction film "Brainstorm" when she drowned, she was with her husband Robert Wagner and co-actor Christopher Walken.

Natalie Wood

14. Oliver Reed: British actor Oliver Reed died of an alcohol-induced heart attack in May 1999 while on location for the block buster movie "Gladiator" where he played the role of Proximus.

Oliver Reed as Proximus in Gladiator, 1999

Although most of his scenes had already been shot for the movie, digital effects were used for those final additional scenes.

15. Paul Walker: "Fast and Furious 7" was halfway through production when it's main star, Paul Walker died in a fatal car crash on November 30, 2013 in Valencia, California.

Paul Walker