Will Smith is opening up about his psychological well being for his new health docuseries Greatest Form of My Life, sharing that at one level, he contemplated loss of life by suicide throughout one second within the sequence’ first trailer.
The six-part YouTube Originals docuseries chronicles the King Richard star’s efforts to lose 20 kilos in 20 weeks and “get into one of the best form of my life.” However the present, which he shot whereas engaged on his upcoming memoir Will, doubles as a deep look into the Hollywood A-lister’s life and psychological well being as an entertainer.
“Once I began this present, I assumed I used to be moving into one of the best form of my life bodily, however mentally, I used to be elsewhere. I ended up discovering a complete lot of hidden issues about myself,” Smith says within the trailer.
Because the actor embarks on an intense bodily routine to get himself again to his desired peak bodily situation after a mentally and bodily difficult pandemic yr, he begins to query the behaviors behind his success. With the assistance of his household and others near him, he unpacks how his public persona as one among Hollywood’s most sought-after motion stars has served as a protection mechanism for his psychological well being.
Throughout the trailer, Smith just isn’t solely seen figuring out however writing his ebook, which he says is “exposing my life and so many issues that folks don’t find out about me.” It’s at this level whereas sitting round a desk along with his household that the actor mentions “the one time in my life that I ever thought-about suicide.”
“Now I’m about to indicate the world how little I find out about myself,” he says. “What you’ve come to know as Will Smith — the alien-annihilating MC, bigger-than-life film star — is essentially a building. A fastidiously crafted and honed character designed to guard myself. To cover myself from the world.”
The docuseries is produced by Smith and Pinkett Smith’s manufacturing firm, Westbrook Media, which can be behind the Fb Watch sequence Crimson Desk Discuss. The primary two episodes of Greatest Form of My Life will debut Monday, Nov. 8, in the future earlier than his memoir hits cabinets. The remaining 4 episodes will premiere day by day on Will Smith’s official YouTube channel.
Greatest Form of My Life is co-showrun by Westbrook’s Lukas Kaiser and co-showrun and directed by Dexton Deboree (Unbanned, Promiseland). The five-day docuseries occasion is Smith’s second collaboration with YouTube Originals, the primary being Will Smith: The Leap. The charity occasion noticed the actor bungee-jump from a helicopter over the Grand Canyon for his fiftieth birthday in 2018.
