Jada Pinkett Smith Interview

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	Justin Interviews: Jada Pinkett Smith
	Justin Timberlake takes on the Matrix women; talking breasts and kung-fu with Jada Pinkett Smith, and shrugging off a broken leg with Carrie-Anne Moss. Here comes Jada Pinkett Smith interview on this page. If you want to view Carrie-Anne Moss interview, enter this page then... JADA PINKETT SMITH INTERVIEW Justin Timberlake: Let's get down to business. I want the skinny. How much training did you have to go through? Jada Pinkett Smith: Well, as you know, when I first got the movie, I was nine months pregnant. Timberlake: So you had to take care of that business before. Pinkett Smith: Right. When Willow was two months [old], I started training. I had to lose weight. I had to strengthen my body up. The good thing was that I had a lot of flexibility, 'cause while you're breastfeeding — I don't know if you know this yet, darling, but you will in time — there's a chemical in your body, relaxin. And that makes you very flexible. Timberlake: I love how we all of a sudden got on the whole ... Pinkett Smith: Yeah, you know, my breasts — that's a good thing. Timberlake: [laughing] Yeah, breasts are a great thing. Anyways ... Pinkett Smith: So I got my kicks down, worked out in the gym, put on about 15 pounds of muscle. I was in the gym about twice a day. It was very intense training. Timberlake: Wow. How many months did you have to ... Pinkett Smith: I trained for the duration. Two years? A year and a half? Timberlake: So you're the newcomer, the new face, the new kid on the block. Pinkett Smith: Yeah. But I'm coming with it. Timberlake: No, you are! I can't even lie. Were you a big fan of the first one?

Pinkett Smith: Oh yeah. Big time. I actually had an opportunity to meet with the Wachowski brothers for the first movie, and so when I found out that they had written Niobe for me, I was blown away.

I was nine months pregnant. They didn't know I was pregnant, but I was like, "Don't even worry about it. We're gonna handle all that."

Timberlake: That's cool. Your character Niobe comes in and we find out that Laurence Fishburne's character, Morpheus, and her — there's a lot of sexual tension. Was it fun to kind of play the vixen a little bit?

Pinkett Smith: Well, she's not a vixen, but she's a strong woman, you know? It's like, "OK, that situation didn't flow properly but I'm on this situation now."

Timberlake: I like your character. You're just, "I volunteer! I'll go in and save them knuckleheads."

Pinkett Smith: The Logos is the fastest ship out of the fleet and that's my ship. ... I'm the best pilot in the fleet so, you know, something needs to be done ... and I'm the one to handle it.

Timberlake: Did Will actually get to visit you on set?

Pinkett Smith: Oh, absolutely. He spent a lot of time in Australia. He's trying to find a way to get into "The Matrix," trying to figure out how he could be down with the movie. I said, "This ain't your movie."

Timberlake: I noticed somebody who plays a character on your ship. Roy Jones Jr. right?

Pinkett Smith: He's not on my ship. He actually has his own.

Timberlake: Oh, that's right. Since Will did such extensive training for "Ali" and Roy [is a boxer], did they get a little spar going?

Pinkett Smith: They did, but it was very short.

Timberlake: I mean, I kicked it with Will and he's a big dude, but Roy is a scary dude.

Pinkett Smith: Roy is scary and is very fast and he's very strong and he definitely had no problems showing Will who the professional boxer is, you know what I mean?

Timberlake: Well, you kick ass in the movie.

Pinkett Smith: Thank you very much, sir.

Timberlake: And I enjoyed it. It gets deeper and better and the action gets crazier.

Pinkett Smith: It's all that. And in the second one it gets even deeper.

Timberlake: Which, to those out there, is really the third one.

A lot of people don't know, you know. The people who watch movies don't really pay attention. You know who you are. ... "The Matrix Reloaded" and "Revolutions" was written as one. That's what I found out.

Pinkett Smith: And the video game ["Enter the Matrix"] actually has film footage in it that intertwines with this movie.

Timberlake: So you had to do all kinds of stuff for the video game as well?

Pinkett Smith: Yeah, we had to do filming for the video game ... Four months of motion capture so they could capture the kicks, the punches, the runs. We have scenes that we had to do.

Timberlake: Do the certain characters have different ...

Pinkett Smith: Styles? Yeah. My style is like a rodent style. Something I made up by myself.

Timberlake: Hey, that works.

Pinkett Smith: The kung fu team kind of did a variation of things with me. She uses her feet and she's all about avoiding, so she does ...

Timberlake: A lot of dodging.

Pinkett Smith: In the picture. She doesn't stand there, she's like [makes kung fu moves]. You gotta keep it moving.

Timberlake: Gotta keep it moving. That's a great way to go out. Thank you.

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