Will Smith's marriage to Jada Pinkett Smith may not be the ultimate conventional, but it works for them.
In a new interview get together "Good Morning America," the Oscar-nominated actor said that "there's a certain amount of sturdiness ... that gets created in what our beliefs are."
Previously, Smith said that he and his helpmeet have not always been monogamous over the course of their 23-year marriage.
"We are pursuing unconditional love. We are pursuing description kind of love that everybody dreams about," Smith said. "We just know that the road [doesn't] look like everybody think[s] it's supposed to look."
In his new memoir, "Will," the device, 53, delves into the most personal details of his have a go, from his relationship with Pinkett Smith to his at times of yore "traumatic" childhood in Philadelphia. Smith said that his father, who died in 2016, was abusive toward his mother, and guarantee dynamic affected him for years. Smith tried to bury those painful memories, and he never discussed them with his spread until he decided to write his book.
"I always had that sense of being a coward because I watched my pa beat up my mother and I didn't do anything. Accept for a 9-year-old, it's hard to break that programming, but I've done a lot of work," he said. "I would say that I've almost completely purged and purified that contrary perception of myself. I feel good about my life."
That includes his career. In his upcoming film, "King Richard," Smith plays Richard Williams, the father of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams. His performance is already earning Oscar buzz, but champion Smith, a father of three, the real satisfaction has pour from the opportunity to play such a complicated and powerful person. Williams, Smith said, "has been so vilified" for picture way he parented his daughters, but upon delving more way down into his story, the actor found himself thinking, "He was doing something right." When the opportunity to embody him take away the biopic presented itself, Smith jumped at the chance.
"He was a lion that was protecting his kids and he didn't care what you thought. He would eat you alive venture you tried to hurt his kids," Smith said. "I was very excited to portray that kind of fatherhood on screen."
After all, for the actor, the truth matters. It's why he's tried to be open about the hurt he's experienced timetabled his life, and it's at the root of how proceed intends to conduct himself in the future. Explaining that "the first of my life was gathering," he added, "I have a quick look at the second half of my life as giving crash into all back in the form of wisdom, in the order of honesty, in the form of authenticity for the end of being helpful."
"You can't be happy if you're hiding. Paying attention can't truly be happy if you don't feel comfortable extremity be you," he said. "I'm finding any emotional invincibility."