These days, if you’re a comic book fan, it’s hard not to love the Smith family. Jada is back on “Gotham” as breakout baddie Fish Mooney, newly raised from the dead as a Frankenstein-like character she lovingly refers to as “Fish 2.0”; Will, meanwhile, is getting ready to release “Suicide Squad,” possibly the blockbuster with the best buzz of the year.
So, now that they’re both in the expansive world of Batman, could the Hollywood power couple ever cross over?
“We have definitely talked about the possibility,” Jada Pinkett Smith reveals. “We’re always in the house, just going off with different creative scenarios; we’ve definitely talked about a meeting-up of Deadshot and Fish Mooney.”
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Since Fish and Deadshot are both irascible characters, Jada says their interaction would likely begin with an epic fight. “Aw, man that would be rugged. Especially this new version of me? Deadshot doesn’t have a chance against Fish!” she laughs, throwing the gauntlet down at her husband’s feet. “Maybe before this 2.0 version, he’d have a chance. But now? He can forget it.”
Once the “Gotham” character lays the smackdown on the “Suicide Squad” baddie, Pinkett says she’d put him to work. “She would have Deadshot on lock, under her spell,” she reasons. “She would definitely lure him into her little web.”
It makes sense that Jada would want to share the screen with her husband -- especially with the role he's currently playing. "Deadshot is one of my favorite DC characters; it's funny that he's actually playing that character," says Pinkett. "Now, we have a stack of comics [in the house], from the character's conception. We're becoming quite the DC family."
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It was something neither would have predicted when Will and Jada first met and started dating -- she says she was always a comic book fan, but they would rarely discuss such things since Will was not. "The kids got into comic books because of me," she says of Trey, Jaden and Willow. "Jaden is a huge Batman fan; he has been since he was a little boy. For Will, it's something more new for him then the rest of the family. I've been a comic buff and taken the kids to comic book stores all over the world since they were little. That used to be our pastime, trying to find special 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' items for Jaden -- he still has a collection today."
Pinkett laughs, because the old stereotype was that comics were a boys-only thing; in the Smith household, however, that dynamic never existed. "No, it's the opposite," she explains, saying she has collected a treasure trove of superhero memorabilia over the years. "I keep it all in Jaden's room. He's like 'Mom, we should create a showcase down in the foyer!' and I'm like 'I don't think your dad would go for that one. We'll keep the shrine in your room, son.'"
"Gotham" airs Mondays on FOX at 8 p.m. ET/PT; "Suicide Squad" hits theaters Aug. 5. As for the Fish/Deadshot movie? Pinkett says stay tuned.
