Will Smith said he felt like a loser after his 2013 movie After Earth bombed at the box office. He discusses winning a Razzie in the new issue of People and how it has helped him approach his new film, Focus.
He told the magazine,
After the failure of After Earth, a thing got broken in my mind. Afterward I was like, ‘Oh, wow. I’m still alive. Oh, wow. Actually, I still am me, even though the movie didn’t open number one. Wait. I can still get hired on another movie.'” He goes on to say, “I realized that I still was a good person. So when I went into Focus, I completely released the concept of goal orientation and got into path orientation. This moment, this second, these people, this interaction…It is a huge relief for me to not care whether or not Focus is number one or number 10 at the box office.
Will, you’re still the King of the Box Office to us!
