Will’s family affair

He had a turbulent childhood with his late father Will Snr. But Best Actor nominee Will Smith channelled his dad into playing the father of Venus and Serena Williams in King Richard. “My father was that guy,” he reveals. “These big dreams and no support at all, but do it anyway. And do it in a different way than other people think you should do it. is very similar to my father – a black man with a dream that every time he said he wanted to do something, there were 50 reasons why he couldn’t do it, and everybody always told him he was crazy.

“My father got bashed for how he raised his kids,” says Will. “So I just really got

Williams.”