Will Smith and his I Am Legend co-star, Abbey the German Shepherd, bought alongside so properly that he tried adopting her.
In rating the best canine in cinema historical past, little doubt Sam from 2007’s I Am Legend is within the dialogue. Not solely was her presence essential to the film – up till her devastating last scene – however her portrayer was additionally fairly the actress. And who higher to know than her human counterpart, Will Smith?
Showing on Sizzling Ones, Will Smith praised Abbey, the German Shepherd who took on the function of Robert Neville’s companion Sam in I Am Legend. “It was like working with a superb actress,” he mentioned, noting that he was fully blown away by simply how good of a performer Abbey was. “Abbey’s doing that…[A dog trainer] educated Abbey to go limp and I laid her [down]. How do you prepare a canine to go limp?” Sam was additionally partly performed by one other German Shepherd, Kona, who will need to have been an actual bitch if Smith so hardly ever mentions that pooch…
As a substitute, all of the love goes to Abbey. “It was like Abbey spoke English…Like, she actually may perceive you, it was the weirdest factor.” Smith had such a powerful bond with Abbey that he even tried adopting her, though he wasn’t allowed since she was “the breadwinner of the household.” In response to IMDb, the only display screen credit score for each Abbey and Kona is I Am Legend.
Smith truly lately named I Am Legend as considered one of his 4 favourite films of his personal and it appears obvious that working with Abbey is perhaps a chief motive for that.
The sequel to I Am Legend is evidently nonetheless shifting ahead, with each Smith and new addition Michael B. Jordan exhibiting confidence within the challenge. Because the latter put it, “We’re nonetheless engaged on the script and getting that as much as par. It doesn’t have a launch date or something like that. I’m undecided precisely the place we’re going to be filming that one, however I’m actually excited to get in entrance of the digicam with [Smith].”
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