inkett
Smith
their sexuality.” Plus, a little eye candy
never hurts. “On that set, I probably
had the most fun of my career, just
being around those fine-ass men all
day long,” she says with a laugh.Girls Trip 2017
For the surprise box office hit
costarring Tiffany Haddish, Queen
Latifah, and Regina Hall, Pinkett
Smith got to do something different:
be funny. “I don’t do comedy a lot,
so it’s not when I feel most natural,
even though I feel like I’m a funny
person in life,” she says. However,
while playing uptight divorced mom
Lisa, the star felt she was “amongst
women who knew how to create a
safe space and support each other.”Red Table Talk 2018
Looking to start “authentic conver-
sations,” Pinkett Smith teamed with
her mother, Adrienne Banfield-
Norris, 65, and daughter, Willow, 18,
to launch a talk show set in her own
home. “It was time to talk about
difficult subjects that people tend
to shy away from,” says Pinkett
Smith. Buzzworthy guests like Leah
Remini and Jordyn Woods helped
the Facebook Watch show go viral,
but it’s the evolution of her cohosts
and the show’s impact on their rela-
tionship that make Pinkett Smith
most proud: “It’s been a wonderful
healing between the three of us.”Angel Has Fallen 2019
Inspired by The Fugitive, the third
film in the Olympus Has Fallen series
finds Pinkett Smith starring as the
Tommy Lee Jones to Gerard Butler’s
Harrison Ford. “The material is a
beautiful draw, but at this time of my
life, a lot of the draw for me is the
people I get to work with,” says
Pinkett Smith, who plays FBI agent
Thompson in the action-thriller. “And
chasing Gerard Butler with a gun is
not a bad way to spend my time!”- In desperate
need of a bath-
room break in
Girls Trip 2. Worst
date night ever
in Scream 2 - Crazy in love
in Ali 4. Rome and
her boys in Magic
Mike XXL 5. On
the hunt in Angel
Has Fallen
(^1 2)
3 45
↓ About a boy(s): Jacob Tremblay
makes a run for it with Keith L. Williams
and Brady Noon
IF BOOKSMART WAS THIS YEAR’S
witty, girl-centric Superbad, then
Good Boys is its smutty-sweet tween
offspring: Superbrat. Though the
kids, for all their F-bombs and
addled hormones, are actually all
right—Max (Jacob Tremblay), Lucas
(Keith L. Williams), and Thor
(Brady Noon), best friends united by
the prepubescent bedlam of sixth
grade. They’re still young enough for
role-playing games in a pillow fort,
but old enough to be invited to their
first real party—the kissing kind.
The need to find out exactly what
that means leads to a quixotic jour-
ney involving Max’s dad’s forbidden
drone, a stolen bottle of molly, and
a hazard-filled trip to the local mall,
punctuated by profane interactions
with various bemused grown-ups
(including Retta, Will Forte, Molly
Gordon, and Stephen Merchant).
Really, though, the story is just
scant scaffolding on which to hang
cheerfully crass jokes about Stranger
Things, anal beads, and cocaine. And
a showcase, too, for the loopy charm
of its young stars: Room’s Tremblay
as Max, the ideal Everyboy; Noon as
the spiky but vulnerable Thor, a sort
of fun-size Danny McBride; and
Williams’ rule-abiding Lucas, a kid
so earnestly transparent, it’s like
he ate truth serum for breakfast. It’s
their fundamental goodness—not
all the wicked, winky “bad”—that’s
easily the best thing about Boys. B–Good BoysSTARRING Jacob Tremblay, Molly
Gordon, Retta, Will Forte
DIRECTED BYGene Stupnitsky
RATING
+ TIME R 1 hr., 29 mins.
REVIEW BY Leah Greenblatt
@Leahbats