In a recent interview, Will Smith praised the performance of his co-star in the post-apocalyptic film I Am Legend: a German Shepherd named Abbey.
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The 55-year-old actor appeared on the famous show Hot Ones on YouTube, hosted by Sean Evans, where participants eat chicken wings with various types of hot sauce, ranging from mild to extremely spicy throughout the interview.
In the 23-minute episode, Will talked about various topics, including the performance of Abbey, the German Shepherd he starred with in I Am Legend. Previously, he had revealed that he wasn’t very fond of dogs until he met Abbey.
After his dog was hit by a car when he was just nine years old, he didn’t allow himself to bond with any other dog, but everything changed on the set of the 2007 film and they became “best friends.”
Besides admitting that he would have adopted the dog if she wasn’t so attached to her owner, Steve, Will said it seemed like she “spoke English” because she understood everything he said to her, and “it was the strangest thing.”
“It was really amazing to watch… the scene where she bites, bites, where we had to do that thing where I choked her. Abbey is doing it, he trained Abbey to limp, how do you train a dog to limp?” Will said.
Will revealed that her owner simply said “Abbey, die,” and she played dead, as she did in the final scene of the film, and concluded by saying that working with her was like working with a “brilliant actress.”
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