Will Smith and his I Am Legend co-star, Abbey the German Shepherd, obtained alongside so properly that he tried adopting her.
In rating the best canines in cinema historical past, little doubt Sam from 2007’s I Am Legend is within the dialogue. Not solely was her presence essential to the film – up till her devastating closing scene – however her portrayer was additionally fairly the actress. And who higher to know than her human counterpart, Will Smith?
Showing on Sizzling Ones, Will Smith praised Abbey, the German Shepherd who took on the position of Robert Neville’s companion Sam in I Am Legend. “It was like working with a brilliant actress,” he mentioned, noting that he was utterly blown away by simply how good of a performer Abbey was. “Abbey’s doing that…[A dog trainer] trained Abbey to go limp and I laid her [down]. How do you train a dog to go limp?” Sam was additionally partly performed by one other German Shepherd, Kona, who will need to have been an actual bitch if Smith so not often mentions that pooch…
As an alternative, all of the love goes to Abbey. “It was like Abbey spoke English…Like, she literally could understand you, it was the weirdest thing.” Smith had such a powerful bond with Abbey that he even tried adopting her, though he wasn’t allowed since she was “the breadwinner of the family.” In keeping with IMDb, the only real display credit score for each Abbey and Kona is I Am Legend.
Smith truly just lately named I Am Legend as certainly one of his 4 favourite motion pictures of his personal and it appears obvious that working with Abbey is likely to be a chief motive for that.
The sequel to I Am Legend is evidently nonetheless transferring ahead, with each Smith and new addition Michael B. Jordan exhibiting confidence within the venture. Because the latter put it, “We’re still working on the script and getting that up to par. It doesn’t have a release date or anything like that. I’m not sure exactly where we’re going to be filming that one, but I’m really excited to get in front of the camera with [Smith].”
The place would you place I’m Legend’s Abbey in your record of the best film canines ever? What made her so essential to the story for you? Drop your feedback beneath!
