--- title: Will Smith Says He May Be Forced to Run for President description: “If people keep saying all the crazy kinds of stuff they’ve been saying on the news lately about walls and Muslims," Will Smith said canonical: https://time.com/4147146/will-smith-president/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-14T00:27:12.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T13:20:00.765Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Will Smith Says He May Be Forced to Run for President og:description: “If people keep saying all the crazy kinds of stuff they’ve been saying on the news lately about walls and Muslims," Will Smith said og:url: https://time.com/4147146/will-smith-president/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4138da548f3aa4de/6988752ca988cac9066b5b76/will-smith.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: Actor Smith poses at the second annual Diamond Ball fundraising event in Santa Monica og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Will Smith Says He May Be Forced to Run for President twitter:description: “If people keep saying all the crazy kinds of stuff they’ve been saying on the news lately about walls and Muslims," Will Smith said twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4138da548f3aa4de/6988752ca988cac9066b5b76/will-smith.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Will Smith Says He May Be Forced to Run for President > Sponsored content. 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But in an [interview with Tracy Smith for CBS’ _Sunday Morning_](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/will-smith-i-may-be-forced-to-run-for-president/), he said that with the United States’ current political climate as it is, he may end up setting his sights on the Oval Office, too. “If people keep saying all the crazy kinds of stuff they’ve been saying on the news lately about walls and Muslims, they’re going to force me into the political arena,” Smith [told CBS News.](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/will-smith-i-may-be-forced-to-run-for-president/) When asked if he had a specific political office in mind, he laughed and replied, “I mean, I gotta be the president. Come on!” Smith has previously hinted that [politics could be in his future](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/11/25/will-smith-politics-future). Speaking last month on _The Hollywood Reporter_’s Awards Chatter podcast, he said, “As I look at the political landscape, I think that there might be a future out there for me. They might need me out there. This is the first year that I’ve been incensed to a level that I can’t sleep, you know? So I’m feeling that at some point, in the near future, I will have to lend my voice to the conversation in a somewhat different way.” Smith stars in the upcoming _Concussion_ as Dr. Bennet Omalu, a Nigerian-born doctor investigating brain damage in the NFL. While the actor has earned acclaim for his performance in the film — and a Golden Globe nomination — he says his ambitions stretch beyond being one of the biggest stars in Hollywood. “I tell my kids, ‘Be as unrealistic as possible, and then figure out how to make it real,” Smith said. “The best things that have ever happened, ever, were unrealistic before they happened. So for me, I think being the biggest movie star in the world as a goal actually was too small.” Watch the full _Sunday Morning_ interview with Smith below. _This_ [_article_ ](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/12/13/will-smith-says-he-may-be-forced-to-run-for-president)_originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4147146/will-smith-president/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4147146/will-smith-president/"},"headline":"Will Smith Says He May Be Forced to Run for President","datePublished":"2015-12-14T00:27:12.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T13:20:00.765Z","description":"“If people keep saying all the crazy kinds of stuff they’ve been saying on the news lately about walls and Muslims\"","url":"https://time.com/4147146/will-smith-president/","keywords":["celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4138da548f3aa4de/6988752ca988cac9066b5b76/will-smith.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Devan Coggan/EW"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4138da548f3aa4de/6988752ca988cac9066b5b76/will-smith.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Actor Smith poses at the second annual Diamond Ball fundraising event in Santa Monica","caption":"Actor Smith poses at the second annual Diamond Ball fundraising event in Santa Monica","creditText":"Mario Anzuoni—Reuters","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4147146/will-smith-president/","name":"Will Smith Says He May Be Forced to Run for President"}}]}] ```