Will Playing Ali

Clip from the Making of Ali

I remember when I first heard that Will Smith was thinking of playing Muhammad Ali's life story. My mother who died before she could see the movie said, "I know Will Smith is not going to play Muhammad Ali. He's going to have to be a really good actor to play him."

One day I sat down and thought about what my mother said. I thought, "Will doesn't look like Muhammad Ali, but he can fix himself to look like him. He has the cheeks and hair-do like Muhammad Ali. It might not take much. He's tall like Muhammad Ali, and he can rhyme like Muhammad Ali. Will also has mouth, acts crazy, and cracks jokes like him too. Will can do it."

When the movie was finished and was at the theater, my mother had passed away. Will played Muhammad Ali as if he was really Muhammad Ali himself. I forgot that it was Will Smith being so lost in the movie of Muhammad Ali's life story. Will was acting and moving just like Muhammad Ali. He could even sound like Muhammad Ali. I knew Will could act, but the Ali movie put the icing on the cake. I thought to myself sitting in the movie theater, "Mama, you did not get to see Will play Ali. He has done a great job."

I heard my mother spiritually answering me back saying, "I see him. I'm not dead, child." My mother carried me for nine months watching movies and raised me. Though she is gone, I feel as though her spirit will never leave me. I can feel her watching my entertainment that she shared with me when she was alive. I see just the Ali movie, but mama can see it all. She knows Ali, Will, and even me. My mother can spiritually see with me that Will can play Ali.

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