By Kit Bowen and Brian Marder, Hollywood.com Staff
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Friday, December 12, 2008
The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
Oscar nomination No. 2 came in biopic No. 2 for Smith. He played real-life homeless single father-turned-stockbroker Chris Gardner in this uplifting, tear-jerking drama, whose par-for-the-course, $150 million-plus take at the box office further proved that audiences love Smith in absolutely any genre.
BEST QUOTE: On working with his son: "With a particularly difficult scene I was struggling and Jaden said to me, ‘Psst, you just do the same thing every take, Daddy.’ And I was like, you know, I was a little offended by that. But what he was saying was that innately he couldn’t understand how I was reading everything exactly the same way every time. He was feeling like, ‘Well, that’s not real. I thought we were supposed to be trying to make this real.’"
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