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Jada Pinkett Smith

Interview By: Rebecca Ford
RebeccaFord@TheCinemaSource.com

Jada Pinkett-Smith has been spending some time behind the camera, making her directorial debut at the Cannes Film Festival with The Human Contract. The spunky, high-energy beauty is also executive producer of the much-anticipated The Secret Life of Bees, due out in October.

This month, she returns to the screen in the remake of the 1939 George Cukor film The Women. She plays a lesbian author who, along with her other friends, tries to traverse the complicated dynamics of friendship and romance.

“All my girlfriends are kind of different,” explains Jada of her real-life friends. “I have various different eclectic women that I roll with.”


Jada, who is married to actor Will Smith, and has two children, enjoys spending time with them—and the oven. “In my older years you know what I really like to do? And this is when you know you just getting older. I like to bake. I like to bring my girlfriends to the house, and bake.”


“It’s a comforting thing,” she explains. “I love being in the kitchen, having my music on and having my girlfriends around and making a 7-Up cake.”

Some days, she takes orders, she says, making different sweets for her husband, her children and her friends. “By the time I’m done, I’ve got a whole counter full.”

But being such a baker these days can be a slippery slope, says Jada. “When I was feeling bad, I was like get to the kitchen and bake something,” explains Jada. “And I found myself eating cake all the time. It’s a comfort.”

The film, directed by Diane English, delves into some of the most pivotal issues in a woman’s life. Other than compulsive eating, the story also covers trust, betrayal and—most importantly—friendship.

“Trust is like the core of my issues. Trust is the foundation of everything,” explains Jada. “To have a real strong sense of trust, I had to learn how to take my trust

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outside of the physical world, and really find trust in the spiritual world.”

“So I have more trust now than I’ve ever had before,” continues Jada. “But I really don’t put my trust into the physical world, just leave it upstairs.”

When trust is broken, comes betrayal, another topic Jada has met in her own life. “Betrayal is just awful—any way it comes,” she says. “I’ve had it on both ends. Been on both ends of it. I’ve done it, and its been done to me. Either way you cut it it’s a nasty thing.”

The film, which includes a strong female cast including Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, and Debra Messing, breaks the Hollywood mold by NOT depending on a male role to carry the movie. Jada emphasizes the unique commonalities of women, a characteristic bringing a special strength to this film.

“That unspoken understanding. It’s the one thing we all have in common, no matter our economic background, nationality,” explains Jada. “We are women. There is just a certain reality and a certain thing that comes with that existence that we all understand innately. We all share that no matter what.”

“As far as men their experiences are different, their perspective of the world,” She continues. “We all understand what it feels like to be a women, no matter where we are.”

We asked Jada how much of herself she sees in her character, Alex.

“Alex is def a nice slice of Jada,” she says. “I would hope in my ‘more mature years’ that I’ve grown to have a little bit more finesse in my truth than Alex, but I do like to say what’s on my mind. I do like to clown around a little bit. And I do tend to be a lot tougher than I really am.”

Another thing Jada may have in common with her character: fashion sense. Jada was voted by her other female cast members as the most fashionable, although she wasn’t around for

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the vote. It makes sense too—Jada has her own catalog fashion line, Maja, made of t-shirts and dresses.

In the film, there is a birth, so we asked Jada about her own memories of her kids’ birth.

“You are kind of like in a whole ‘nother world,” she explains.

But one surprise for Jada was the amount of people clustered into her delivery room. “So the baby is born, and then you hear all these voices and you go, ‘What the hell are you people doing here?’ Your legs are all up in the air like ‘what the hell!? What are you doing here?!’” Jada says, her laughter echoing through the room.

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