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 Jada Pinkett Smith
Interview By: Rebecca Ford 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 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 ... |
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