Smith spoke about the role at the Aladdin press conference in 2019. It turned out the Genie had more in common with his own celebrity than it may have appeared. Smith identified with the Genie from ...

In the upcoming, live-action adaptation of “Aladdin,” Will Smith steps into the role of the beloved Genie, and in a new interview with Entertainment Weekly he discussed the task of taking on an iconic ...

In the animated Aladdin, Williams could just riff in the recording studio. The animators would draw whatever impressions they decided to use. That was a tough act for Smith to follow. “It definitely ...

This take on the Genie is inherently different from the original, but that’s expected. Will Smith took his own approach to the character, very different from the iconic performance delivered by Robin ...