WATCH: Will Smith Reveals The Message Behind Bad Boys: Ride or Die

Will Smith talks about the takeaway for fans without giving the story of &#039;Bad Boys: Ride or Die&#039; away.

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00:00What is the takeaway? I guess for fans. I know there's an

00:02overall message of friendship and ride or die, whatever,

00:05but each film I think has a different little nugget.

00:08What do you think the takeaway for fans are from the fourth

00:11installment?

00:12You know, there's a that so, you know, for us in the,

00:16you know, the first movie what we were playing with and we

00:18weren't as good at it. And in the first movie, we were

00:21playing with identity, right? And then in the second film,

00:26we were playing with lies, right? And then the third film

00:31is when we got like

00:33intelligent about the underlying thematic premise of

00:37movies, right? So in the third movie grow or die,

00:42right? Was the was the thematic focus and in this film to me,

00:47which was one of the biggest possibilities and we took we

00:50took a big reach for this one and you know, Marcus's

00:54character has has a

00:57spiritual experience and his

01:01his character is trying to get Mike to trust the universe,

01:06you know, and it's like to me, you know, we don't we don't

01:09compromise being a popcorn movie, but I love the idea that

01:14of having something that poignant that we're trying to

01:18say in a bad boys movie and just hiding it under the beauty

01:22and comedy of what we're trying to trying to do for a summer

01:27audience. And he's saying this without giving the story away.

01:30Yeah.