The director and writer of Independence Day have said that 20th Century Fox studio executives initially refused to cast Will Smith.
Smith starred in the 1996 sci-fi action film Independence Day, acting opposite Jeff Goldblum, Randy Quaid, Bill Pullman and Mary McDonnell.
To celebrate the film’s 25th anniversary this week, the director Ronald Emmerich and producer-writer Dean Devlin spoke to The Hollywood Reporter.
Devlin recalled: “They said, ‘You cast a Black guy in this part, you’re going to kill foreign [box office].’”
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