Will Smith Pays For July 4 Fireworks In New Orleans After Last Year’s Show Was Cancelled

Will Smith is treating the people of New Orleans to some pyrotechnics on America’s Independence Day.

The kind-hearted actor picked up the bill for a fireworks show over the Mississippi River after learning that the city didn’t plan a 2021 display, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

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New Orleans also missed out on a July 4 fireworks display in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Smith is currently in New Orleans filming “Emancipation”.

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The upcoming movie centres on a slave who escapes a plantation and later fights for in the Civil War.

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Production on the film recently moved from Georgia to Louisiana due to Georgia’s controversial new voting laws.