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 ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook For better or for worse, Genie will always be the most important character when it comes to ...

Kevin Tash is a TV and Film Features writer for Collider, a screenwriter, and an arm-chair film critic. When you think of "Disney" who are the first characters to come to mind? It's going to be ...

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 ...

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 ...