It’s hard to focus when there’s so much
going on BEHIND the camera!
 You’re watching Beyond The Trailer’s review of the very FIRST Will Smith and Margot Robbie movie...
First there was Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
Then Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. Two tabloid
power couples born first out of rumor on the
sets of Cleopatra and Mr and Mrs Smith respectively,
only to be later confirmed as fact and become
some of Hollywood’s most famous - or is
that infamous - lovers. Are Margot Robbie
and Will Smith next? Some rather friendly
photo booth pics hit the internet a few months
ago, sparking rumors that Robbie and Smith’s
INSANE chemistry was unable to be contained
by the screen. And of course there was the
“open marriage” that Will and Jada often
bragged about to the press. But with a tabloid
storm bearing down, Jada clarified that it
wasn’t so much an open marriage but a trusting
marriage. Meanwhile Will has assured the press
that Jada isn’t threatened by Robbie, in
fact she’s more concerned about her man
looking just as good as Robbie in their sex
scenes. Yet with all this explaining, how
does one explain Will Smith and Margot Robbie
teaming up again almost immediately for Suicide
Squad, where they’ll again play lovers?
Hmm... Perhaps Warner Bros, the studio behind
both Focus and Suicide Squad, has seen how
potent the chemistry is between the duo and
wants to bring that heat to their DC brand?
And maybe, just maybe, all these rumors are
also good for business? But tabloid fodder
or not, the Smith Robbie romance - real or
not - is a very important step for Hollywood.
Since its inception, Hollywood has treated
interracial couples, especially where the
man is the one who’s not white, as something
sensational. They acknowledged it existed,
yet it wasn’t identified as the norm - or
as an easy life. Take To Kill a Mockingbird
in 1962. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner in
1967. Jungle Fever in 1991. Yet even Shakespeare
wrote about such romance with Othello! Sure
it didn’t end well, but it didn’t end
well for Romeo and Juliet either. However,
today in 2015, a recent Gallop poll discovered
that overall, eighty-seven percent of Americans
approve of interracial relationships! Is this
the perfect time for an interracial Bonnie
and Clyde in Focus? Or an interracial tabloid
power couple like Robbie and Smith? If so,
that means Hollywood will have come a long
way from Denzel Washington, one of the biggest
stars of his generation, avoiding interracial
romance so as not to offend audiences - white
OR black. Yet, didn’t Denzel just recently
romance Kelly Reilly in 2012’s Flight? And
it certainly didn’t hurt Flight’s box
office numbers. In fact, Focus - starring
Smith at perhaps the lowest point in his career,
an untested Robbie, plus written and directed
by the team behind I Love You Phillip Morris
and Crazy Stupid Love - would KILL for those
numbers...!
