Will Smith & Martin Lawrence Take a Friendship Quiz

I know Martin,

Martin. [Martin laughs]

I know yours, I mean, granted yours is a little easier,

like Martin. [laughs]

My I'm Will Smith.

I'm Martin Lawrence.

[Both] And this is the GQ Friendship Quiz.

You going first? Or I'm going first?

Uh?

After you, beloved.

What's my middle name?

Oh... [Martin laughs]

Darnell. [Martin laughs]

I was Darnell in Thin Line

Yeah, yeah. [laughs] Between Love and Hate.

But, nope.

Yo, what's your middle name?

Fitzgerald, yeah.

That's a good one. It's like literary.

I was named after John F. Kennedy.

Oh wow. Yeah.

Martin Luther King. I was named after Martin,

and I was named after John F. Kennedy.

Your family had big dreams for you.

[both laugh]

Where was I born?

Outside of DC.

Germany.

Germany!

My father was in the Air Force.

Really? You were born in Germany.

Yeah. You speak any German?

[beep] [Will laughs]

I don't know, I...

I think that means something different.

[Martin] I don't know. [Will laughs]

What am I most known for?

Genius physical comedy.

Okay, I'll take that. You'll take that, okay.

I'll take that.

What's my favorite movie?

48 Hours. Wow.

[Will laughs] That's close.

But I would say Training Day.

Training Day. Okay.

I knew it would be somebody black in the lead.

[Martin laughs]

What's one of the things I have to do before filming?

You drink a whole bottle of water in one gulp.

One bottle of water and never turn it down,

every time before we shoot.

Right.

I was like, That's amazing. [laughs]

And that's true, very true, very true.

What was my big break?

You were working with Salt-N-Pepa

and Kid 'n Play at Sears.

Yeah.

What was your, what was- Star Search.

Star Search. Wow! [both laugh]

They came to DC and I was in New York, so I missed them.

And then they came back to DC,

and I was back in DC.

Everybody thought I wouldn't get on the show

'cause I was vulgar.

I was cussin' and everything.

[Will] Yeah, because you be cussin', you be saying-

Yeah, I be saying all that stuff.

Saying fuck all the time. Yeah.

[both laugh]

So they thought I wouldn't get on the show.

All the comedians was like,

Well, we know who not going to be on the show.

[Will laughs]

And guess who wind up getting on the show.

Wow. She picked me.

Ed McMahon's daughter. Ed McMahon's daughter.

Daughter of Ed McMahon.

Did not know that, Ed. Yes.

Who is the better boxer?

'Cause you know you played Ali.

Yeah. You know,

and I had my younger days.

Yeah, yeah. No, no, no, I'm gonna be honest.

I think technically you are absolutely

a better boxer than me.

You know, I've seen you move. I've seen you do it.

I got 50 pounds on you though.

[both laugh]

I ain't fighting no heavy weight.

[both laugh]

I ain't testing my skill with no heavyweight.

I aint tested my skills with you.

You can definitely throw 'em.

You can throw 'em for real. [laughs]

Thank you, my brother, thank you.

What is the 12th word in the Bad Boys song?

I feel like it is looking for...

[Will imitates music sounds]

I don't even know the twelfth word.

[Will laughs]

You don't know, you know better than I know you.

[both laugh]

♪ Bad boys, bad boys ♪

♪ What you gonna do ♪ What you...

So, is what you two words, or is what you one word?

One word. Okay.

We say it's one word. What you gonna do.

We're just singing the hooks.

So Captain John is in there somewhere.

Sheriff John Brown. Sheriff John Brown.

We made it our own.

Yeah. Yeah. [laughs]

And they love it. And they love.

[both laugh]

What's the compliment you gave me that I appreciate most?

I've given you a lot of compliments.

Yes, you have. That you appreciate most?

And I appreciate all of 'em.

You seem to appreciate the idea that I think of you

as honest and vulnerable.

You nailed that on the head.

Good to go. My guy.

When did we first meet?

My recollection is when you came to the house.

Yep, when you called, you called for...

Called for to...

To do the first Bad Boys.

For you to do the Bad Boys. Yeah.

What was my first job ever?

See you could have went to off to this college,

[Will laughs]

and you're brainiac, so...

Were you a salesman?

In a way, I delivered ice.

So the bags of ice that you see in supermarkets

when you go in, you buy. Yeah, yeah.

So I delivered those.

My father owned an ice shop. Okay.

When we were growing up, so...

Okay. I was the ice man.

What was my first car?

I saw you in a Rolls-Royce.

I had already made it by then.

[both laugh]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

A candy apple red IROC-Z, the Camaro IROC-Z.

IROC. I had a IROC.

Wow. Yeah.

It was the first thing I bought with music money.

It was like, you know, we got our first check.

I spent every dime on that IROC-Z.

It got stolen. Aw.

It so hard when you see your baby stripped down

and naked on the freeway.

[both laugh]

The lyrics to the Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme song.

Theme song.

The theme song to the show.

Now this, he don't know it.

Now I do know it, but I don't know how to-

I know Martin,

Martin. [Martin laughs]

I know yours, I mean, granted yours a little easier.

Like Martin. [both laugh]

It's just easier to remember.

I know it, but I can't say it.

[Will laughs] I know it.

It was cut down for the show.

So there was an extended version.

This is the story all about how my life got flipped,

turned upside down, all of that.

And there was like a full four minute song.

I begged and pleaded with her day after day,

but she, yeah, nah, I couldn't do it.

What's my favorite dance move?

The Wop. [Will laughs]

It was probably a tie between the Wop and the Running Man.

That was a, I got stuck in that era.

That's all I gotta do.

The Wop and the Running Man, that's all I got.

What's my like go-to workout?

If I have to work out, what's the...

Oh, shit, you go hard.

[Will laughs]

You start with your eatin', you eat right.

You eat stuff I don't even heard of.

[Will laughs] I haven't never heard of.

You get in the gym, you work two days.

Two a days, yeah. Two a days.

But my go-to is running,

like running is my favorite thing to do to train.

Oh yeah. Love, love running.

I love being out and just like going, yeah.

My favorite meal.

It's hard to say your favorite meal,

because I be seeing you eating [Will laughs]

all kinds of different stuff I never heard of.

Whatever's there, like, I'll eat it.

Number one and number two on different days

would be like the Thanksgiving meal.

Right. I love the turkey,

yams, and macaroni cheese, and all that.

I love that meal.

And I love sushi. Oh, you love sushi?

I love sushi, yeah. Yeah.

I never got to the spot you was

talking about the one in Miami.

Truluck's, that's the seafood.

[Will] Yeah, that's the seafood spot, yeah.

We have to do that.

My favorite food is seafood, Italian, soul food.

We eclectic eaters.

Yes, yeah. [Will laughs]

I like to try everything.

Who should be recast as our Bad Boys

roles in an alternate universe?

Denzel. I want Denzel to play me. [laughs]

Yes, Mr. Washington.

I would say Ice Cube for me.

Oh yeah, that's interesting. Yeah, yeah.

I would like to see Ice Cube play me.

Denzel and Ice Cube.

That would be hot.

Who is my acting hero?

You're a thespian.

So from Silence of Lambs. Silence of the Lambs.

Oh, yes Sir Anthony Hopkins. Yes.

Yeah, he's real.

The only real person I modeled myself after was Eddie,

and a combination with Denzel.

When I looked at what Eddie was doing,

I was like, I want to do that.

Yeah. So I was trying to like,

you know, be able to make people laugh,

and cheer, and clap in a movie theater the way

Eddie did with his comedic brilliance.

But I wanted to be able to shut it down

with just a look in my eyes.

The way that Denzel could do, in like Glory.

What pair of sneaks in general are my favorite?

Jordan's. The Jordan's.

It was the Air Force 1's. Air Force 1's.

That's what, 90% of the days you see me,

I got Air Force 1's on.

I should've known that. [Will laughs]

I should've known that.

Black Air Force 1's. I should've known.

Black Air Force 1's.

What's my favorite thing about you?

Oh, that I'm nice and I'm kind.

And you hamsome. [Martin laughs]

Hamsome. I like that you hamsome.

[both laugh]

I love that it's no pretend.

That's my thing I just love.

You don't do no pretend.

Buddy Martin is like all real.

You got this many points.

And you got this many points.

Mm, points can't quantify our love.

[both laugh]

What did we learn about- What did we learn

that Marty Mar was born in Germany.

I was like, how did I not know that?

Your father was in the service?

Father was in the Air Force.

In the Air Force.

Oh shoot, my father was in the Air Force.

Yeah.

My father was dishonorably discharged.

[Martin laughs]

That's another story, another lifetime. [laughs]

Now you know what else I learned,

that you never can fully know somebody.

If you can stay open and keep your mind open.

You'll always discover

[Both] Something new.

About somebody, even when you've known 'em,

now we've known each other for more than half our lives.

And if you just stay open

and not let yourself slip into feeling like,

Oh, I know that. I know that dude.

You always find something new.

[Martin] Mm hm, mm hm.

Hey, thank you all so much. Thank you very much.

Thank you, please go see Bad Boys: Ride or Die.

Big laughs. Some big cheers.

Opportunity to be the best one of 'em all.

Yep, absolutely. Check it out.

Check it.

[upbeat music]