Monday October 19, 2009

Will Smith is desperate to land a role in popular British soap EastEnders!

The Men in Black star — who is one of Hollywood’s highest-paid actors — became addicted to the BBC show when he visited the UK earlier this year to promote movie Seven Pounds.

“I was just chilling in my hotel and EastEnders was on TV,” Smith told British newspaper newspaper The Sun. “I didn’t even know what it was, but I literally could not stop watching it.

“It was like a week’s worth of episodes in one. Before I knew it, all I had done was get room service and waste a whole afternoon watching this show I’d never heard of!

“It was so real and gritty. American soaps are all about the beautiful people and being cheesy. This soap had everything.

“There was fighting, people sleeping around — it had it all going on! I’m a bit busy but when things quieten down I’d love to do a cameo. I could make a big entrance in the pub, as you guys call it, and be like: ‘Hey, girl let’s take this outside.’ ”

Will, 41, wants to start a campaign to get the soap shown on BBC America once more.

“If the BBC boys are reading this, sort it out, man and start showing it again! Get it back on our TV screens,” he said.

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