“I really feel like numerous the patterns are beginning to repeat themselves in America and the world in the present day,” Will shared. “So, by way of the timing, it felt prefer it was time for a reminder that we not go down a number of the similar paths.”

He and director Antoine Fuqua labored exhausting to relay that message in hopes that the movie “was one thing that you simply would not simply neglect whenever you walked out of the theater,” Will mentioned.

“I believe that degree of emotional confront is vital,” he continued, “to have the ability to domesticate compassion and empathy for each other.”

Hear extra from Will and in the present day’s leisure tales on E! Information tonight at 11:30 p.m. on E!.

Emancipation premieres in choose theaters Dec. 2 and on Apple TV+ Dec. 9.