Will Smith is fighting mad over a story that appeared in the Daily Mail over the weekend. The article claims that Smith praised Adolf Hitler. The media storm that followed has put the Hollywood actor in fighting mode.
Smith was quoted in the Scottish newspaper as having said that Hitler was essentially a good person. His response is that the article was a ludicrous misinterpretation of his remarks. They attributed the following quote to Smith: “Even Hitler didn’t wake up in the morning sayings ‘let me do the most evil thing I can do today’. I think he woke up using a twisted, backward logic and he set out to do what he thought was good.”
Smith wanted to set the record straight by saying that “Hitler was a vile, heinously vicious killer responsible for one of the greatest acts of evil ever committed on the planet.”
Daily Mail printed the followup today. The original story was in their Saturday edition.