Since earlier this week, rumors of Will Smith shooting a movie in several parishes became circulating on social media. However those rumors are untrue. The major production work currently being shot in Jamaica is that of “Get Millie Black”, a series by 2015 Man Booker Prize-winning author Marlon James. The novelists first six-part HBO series.
Sections of Jamaica’s capital city have been experiencing traffic pile up due to roads being closed off to facilitate the filming.
Some persons on social media posted that Will Smith was in Jamaica shooting a part two for the Jamaican cult classic Shottas.
Will smith in Jamaica making shottas part 2!!!!
— Kemoy Reid (@KemoyRoshane) May 22, 2022
Another posted a behind the scenes video of the production while to actors were on camera.
https://twitter.com/1trendyja/status/1527460100876783628?s=20&t=4J0HWCIJ1Oatfe7Krv6DvA
Channel 4 in the UK announced in December that it had commissioned the crime drama and that HBO, the WarnerMedia-owned premium network, is also part of the deal.
The crew has been in the island filming for over three weeks now. They were seen in Barbican, St Andrew, and downtown Kingston. Additional scenes will be shot in London.
Get Millie Black is produced by Motive Pictures, and is said to be a “vivid, unflinching, and gripping six-part crime noir.”
It follows Millie-Jean Black, a police detective forced to quit Scotland Yard and return home to Jamaica, where she is soon pursuing a missing persons case that threatens to expose more than she may be willing to confront.
The series, which also stars Joe Dempsie, Gershwyn Eustache Jnr and Chyna McQueen, marks the screenwriting debut of author Marlon James.
Returning to her roots from her troubled life in London, to work missing persons cases for the Jamaican police force, Millie soon picks up the trail of an investigation that begins in the steaming streets of downtown Kingston and works its way up to the hill plantations of the post-colonial elite. Events eventually explode onto the international stage, propelling Millie back to the UK, where pretty soon everyone is out to get Millie Black.
Marlon James, Creator and Executive Producer, said: “This is the first major international TV show to put my home country, Jamaica, centre stage, so it’s beyond awesome to have actual world-class Jamaican talent both in front and behind the camera, with our star Tamara Lawrance and Director Tanya Hamilton.”
Simon Maxwell, CEO, Motive Pictures and Executive Producer, commented: “We are immensely proud to announce such a stellar line-up of talent on Get Millie Black – from directors Tanya Hamilton and Annetta Laufer, to writers Theresa Ikoko, Lydia Adetunji and Joshua St Johnston, to a cast that showcases some of the most exciting acting talents from Jamaica and the UK, led by Tamara Lawrance, Joe Dempsie, Gershwyn Eustache Jnr and a debut performance destined to electrify audiences from rising Kingston star, Chyna McQueen.”
Meanwhile, in a candid conversation with David Letterman on the late-night host’s Netflix show, “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction” — which was taped months before “the slap” — Will Smith recalled the effects of his ayahuasca experience — a psychoactive herbal drink that reportedly holds some hallucinogenic properties.
“Once you drink it, you’re going to see yourself in a way you’ve never seen yourself,” Smith explained to Letterman, adding, “One of the experiences was the individual most hellish psychological experience of my life.”
Smith said he had the vision that his palatial home, his wealth and unparalleled career would be ripped from him during a spell of two years in which he explained ingesting the psychedelic drug nearly 15 times.
“I drank, and it usually takes about 45 minutes to kick in. And I’m sitting there, and you always feel like, ‘Maybe it won’t kick in this time.’ So I’m drinking and sitting there and then all of a sudden it’s like I start seeing all of my money flying away, and my house is flying away and my career is going away,” the “King Richard” star recalled of the out-of-body moment.
Will Smith said he anticipated his latest life shift that his career would be “destroyed” earlier than the smacking Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars.
During a candid sit-down conversation with David Letterman on the former late-night host’s Netflix show, “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction” — which was taped months before the viral slap — Smith recalled a premonition of the sort that he experienced while under what he claims was from the effects of ayahuasca — a psychoactive herbal drink that reportedly holds some hallucinogenic properties.
“Once you drink it, you’re going to see yourself in a way you’ve never seen yourself,” Smith explained to Letterman, adding, “One of the experiences was the individual most hellish psychological experience of my life.”
Smith said he had the vision that his palatial home, his wealth and unparalleled career would be ripped from him during a spell of two years in which he explained ingesting the psychedelic drug nearly 15 times.
“I drank, and it usually takes about 45 minutes to kick in. And I’m sitting there, and you always feel like, ‘Maybe it won’t kick in this time.’ So I’m drinking and sitting there and then all of a sudden it’s like I start seeing all of my money flying away, and my house is flying away and my career is going away,” the “King Richard” star recalled of the out-of-body moment.
The “Bad Boys” actor went on to explain that while he was tripping off the hallucinogenic, he immediately began grasping at his money, which he perceived to be floating away in thin air, and he recalled thinking to himself, “My whole life is getting destroyed.”
“This is my fear in real life, and I’m in there, and I’m wanting to vomit and all of that, and I hear a voice saying: ‘This is what the f— it is. This is what the f— life is,'” the 53-year-old Smith lamented to Letterman.
Ultimately, Smith said he came to when he heard his daughter, Willow Smith, calling out for his help and he realized that at the end of the day, nothing can ever take away his true blessings — his family.
“Then slowly I stopped caring about my money. I just wanted to get to Willow. I stopped caring about my house. I stopped caring about my career,” he added.
“When I came out of it, I realized that anything that happens in my life, I can handle it,” the actor went on to explain. “I can handle any person I lose. I can handle anything that goes wrong in my life. I can handle anything in my marriage. I can handle anything that this life has to offer me.”
Since his Oscar debacle, he has resigned from the academy and apologized for his infractions.
“Violence in all of its forms is poisonous and destructive,” Smith wrote in part on Instagram. “I was out of line and I was wrong.
“I am embarrassed and my actions were not indicative of the man I want to be. There is no place for violence in a world of love and kindness.
Smith is one of the most successful and globally recognizable stars in the world due his smash hit sit-com The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air as well as hit movies franchises Bad Boys, 1, 2, and 3 as well as Men In Black.
