![]() What changed Smith’s mind was sitting down with the real-life hero of Concussion, Dr Omalu. ![]() I have a lot of friends that are players and owners, and I didn’t want to be that guy.” There was a part of me that did not want to be the guy who said playing football could cause brain damage. “This type of film is an ‘inconvenient truth’,” Smith said. Concussion – the story of Dr Bennet Omalu’s battle to protect players from long-term brain damage – has been called “the NFL’s greatest nightmare”. “This is definitely the most incendiary project I’ve ever worked on,” Will Smith said last year when he revealed he would be playing the Nigeria-born pathologist accused of trying to destroy the game of American football.
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