Date 17/05/2017 - News People
Whooping with excitement and high-fiving reporters, Will Smith looked like he was ready to have fun as a member of the Cannes Film Festival jury that assembled in this French Riviera resort on Wednesday. "West Philadelphia is a long way from Cannes," said Smith, referring to the scrappy neighborhood in the northeastern U.S. city where he grew up. "I was probably 14 years old the last time I watched three movies in one day!" Both Almodovar and Smith weighed in on the issue that has dominated conversations so far at Cannes - the inclusion in the competition of Netflix films that will be streamed to subscribers and not shown in movie theaters in France.
