“It was such a wonderful exploration of myself. Because what happens is you get into a situation where you don’t have people to create the stimulus for you to respond to. So what happens is you start to create the stimulus and the response. There’s a connection with yourself that where your mind starts to drift to in those types of situations you start to learn things about yourself that you would never even imagine. In order to prepare for that, we sat with former POWs and people who sat in solitary confinement. That was the framework for creating the idea.”

Will Smith