Taye Diggs: "Will Smith Is the Jalen Brunson of Hollywood"

Jalen Bronson, you don't get to do, you don't— And then finally you just go [MASKED] put this role out and you take it and you're the king of New York. Who is that in Hollywood?

You know, I'm gonna use Will Smith because I know his history. It was him. He started out, people thought he was kind of corny. And at the beginning of rap, when he did come up with the rap, people thought it was too clean. And then he killed the game, like sold all these, then lost all his money and then decided almost on a whim to do this TV show. Nobody had done a TV show like that with Fresh Prince. He was so bad on camera. On camera, you can see him mouthing the other people's lines. But he willed himself. That show broke records. Mm-hmm. And then he literally decided, "I'm gonna be the biggest movie star in the world." For him to say that at that point in his career was beyond delusional. And slowly but surely, he did it. So, to me, that's like proof that when you got drive, right? I don't know, magic, energy, whatever it is. But he is that cat. He is that cat to me.