10 Easy Steps To Save Will Smith's Career

The Pursuit Of Happyness, Six Degrees Of Separation and Concussion prove that Will Smith is capable of delivering quietly powerful performances in smaller movies. And if there's time between the aforementioned franchise comebacks and rib-tickling comedies, he could do a lot worse than flexing these muscles again.

Being a Hollywood star is a tough balancing act: people want you to revisit that thing they love you for, but they also want to witness new things from time to time to stave of boredom. It seems Smith has always understood this, but his choices of projects have often let him down.

If a strong script comes up, particularly something lets Smith play against that cocksure type, he should probably give it a go. Smith playing a serial killer, a lowlife or some other dark character could make for an attention-grabbing conversation starter - some real water-cooler stuff, to put him back at the heart of pop culture. Smith just needs to make sure someone proofs the script first and checks it's not awful.