Will Smith meets Nelson Mandela

(17 Sep 2004) SHOTLIST

APTN
Johannesburg, South Africa, 16th September 2004
1. Various Will Smith and Nelson Mandela
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Nelson Mandela:
"We are please to announce that Mr Will Smith has agreed to serve as an ambassador for this global HIV/AIDS campaign. The Nelson Mandela Foundation and I are convinced that his message will reach those most at risk of HIV, the young."
3. Audience
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Will Smith:
"It's a huge honour, and it's very important to me. It's an issue that Mr Mandela and I have spoken about approximately four years ago and we sat down, and I don't know if you remember, I was saying to you, 'I am an actor, I make rap music, that is what I do, what can I do?' And I sat with Mr Mandela and was so inspired, immediately you want to quite your job, you want to go out on the streets and you want to fight, he said 'no, you have to understand the power of what it is you do, you have to understand the hope that is created by the work that you create.' He told me not to force it, that the call would speak to me, today the call has spoken to me and I humbly, gratefully, will aggressively respond."
5. Audience
6. Various photo op
7. Various Will Smith and Nelson Mandela

WILL SMITH MEETS MANDELA

'I,Robot' star Will Smith and Nelson Mandela met at the former president's Houghton home in Johannesburg where he was made an ambassador of the Global Aids Awareness Campaign.

Mandela stated that the Nelson Mandela Foundation was convinced that the youth would relate to the message from the superstar.

Smith was accompanied by his actor wife Jada Pinkett Smith, a star in her own right, as well as his mother and children. He is in the country to promote his latest movie 'I,Robot,' as well as to visit Aids projects in the impoverished townships of South Africa.

Smith later stated at a press conference that Mandela made him understand the power he had as an actor to influence the youth of today in understanding the dangers of HIV/AIDS.

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