According to Variety, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith plan to do a book together, because what we are currently reading in the ‘Will and Jada book club’ apparently isn’t enough.
All jokes aside, the project is called ‘Don’t Try This at Home’ and Jada made the announcement during an interview with Extra.
“I know Will and I are talking about writing a book, together, called ‘Don’t Try This at Home,’” Pinkett Smith said.
Previously on the “School of Greatness” podcast, Pinkett Smith said:
“I hope one day we can write a book together. And just how we’ve been through so much. And all the gates of relating that we’ve been through. And there’s been many, and many to come. Right? But… The process that he’s going through right now, I think would be so helpful to so many men.”
Smith and Pinkett Smith married in 1997, and it was only during the latter’s recent press tour for the memoir that she revealed they actually separated in 2016. They were not together on the night of the 2022 Oscars, when Smith slapped Chris Rock in the face for making a joke at the expense of Pinkett Smith.
In a recent email to the New York Times, Smith explained that Pinkett Smith’s revelations about their marriage in her memoir “woke him up.” He realized “she had lived a life more on the edge” and that “she is more resilient, clever and compassionate” than he’d understood.
“When you’ve been with someone for more than half your life, a sort of emotional blindness sets in,” Smith wrote. “And you can all too easily lose your sensitivity to their hidden nuances and subtle beauties.”
During an in-person conversation at New York City’s Perelman Performing Arts Center on Oct. 16, Pinkett Smith recalled how she and Smith “did some really deep work together” after he slapped Rock on stage at the Oscars ceremony.
“When I was sitting at the Oscars, it clicked in. As soon as I was like, ‘Oh snap, you hit Chris?’” Pinkett Smith said. “I was like, I’m riding with you. I didn’t come into this place as your wife, but I’m leaving here as your wife because we got a storm we’re going to have to deal with together. I am not gonna leave your side.”
