of feeling squashed,

and squelched and controlled by fear.

You know Will Smith is bungee jumping...

- What? - ...on his birthday, his 50th birthday,

out of a helicopter over the Grand Canyon.

( exhales ) That seems like a terrible idea.

We do it over the...

Oh, now y'all scared.

( music playing )

My father taught me a very, very valuable lesson about fear.

Franklin D. Roosevelt: The only thing we have to fear is...

- ( screams ) - ...fear itself.

Fear kills your ability to see beauty.

Will: Skydiving is a really interesting confront with fear.

Am I cold or is it my nerves?

Manage your mind. Oh, this is scary.

( bell rings )

The last time I was on a motorcycle, I crashed.

At about 50 miles per hour.

So, today is the first day I'm getting back on a motorcycle.

- ( tires screeching ) - Man: There goes Will Smith.

( alarm blaring )

I'm a little shook.

First day of my new movie

called "Gemini Man" with Ang Lee.

And I got motorcycle training.

I'm gonna wait till tomorrow to do that.

( men laugh )

( music playing )

He never has sex.

You can't do anything other than that.

Yeah.

So this is my first time on a motorcycle.

And less probably-- I think it's 12 years.

Trey was 13.

Was "I, Robot."

Ben was there. Ben was there.

I was there.

So he gets on, he's about 20 yards out.

He's riding.

Feeling real comfortable.

He started to lean a little low.

I said, "Oh, wow, he's getting real comfortable."

He goes a hundred yards out

and he's picking up his speed.

He's leaning and I just hear crash!

We get out there, Will is sitting up.

Uh, he's conscious. He was out he said for a couple seconds.

The bike was totaled.

The gasoline was pouring out of the gas tank.

The front tire was back there with the back tire.

It was just totaled.

And the medic says to him,

"Mr. Smith, we have to check you."

He said, "Don't touch me.

Don't touch me.

Get me another bike out here right now."

( all laugh )

Will: I don't like being scared.

I hate being scared.

I don't like how I feel

getting on this bike.

I don't wanna be scared to do sh--.

But I am.

( all laugh )

Let's go.

Stop being scared.

My father was in the military,

and he was aggressive.

Not abusive,

but aggressive.

And I was always scared of him.

Like when I'd hear his keys coming in the house,

and I would get scared.

And when I became a teenager I was like,

"I hate that feeling.

I don't like being scared."

So I've spent a lifetime trying to overcome

that terrified, little boy.

And, uh, he's here with me today right now.

( laughs )

All right.

Fear keeps you from seeing beauty.

( music playing )

I'm not gonna be scare of sh--.

I'm attacking anything that I'm scared of.

My father taught a very valuable lesson about fear.

It's a long story. I'm not gonna go into the whole store,

but a gangsta was coming to my house to kill me.

He was sitting in front of my house,

and he put a gun on his dashboard.

And my father went out to talk to him.

I'm at the door and I'm looking through the mail slot.

I'm like, "Oh, shoot."

And my father walks down to the car.

He says, "Can I help you?" And the dude says,

"Tell that mother-- to come out here."

And my father said, "Well, if the mother-- you talkin' about is Will,

he's in the house." And I'm in there like,

"Don't tell him. Why you telling him I'm in here?"

And my father just say, "If you wanna kill him,

you can come on in the house and kill him now.

And the whole family's here.

'cause if you kill Will, you're gonna have to kill us all.

We ain't accepting no (...) threats from you."

And he turned his back and walked in the house.

And the dude just stormed off.

And I was like, "Oh, shoot!"

I was like, "That was like some like real ghetto,

mind trick stuff."

And I didn't understand it as a child,

but what penetrated me in that moment

was there's nothing worse than walking around scared.

My father knew dude might shoot us in the back,

but killing us is way better

than us being scared in our own neighborhood.

We're not gonna be scared. So come kill us now.

It was a powerful lesson about the complete rejection of fear.

My parents drove us cross-country to--

We were going to California for a, uh, family reunion.

So we drove to the Grand Canyon.

And we got there and I, like, I remember having a deeply,

meaningful experience of how beautiful it was,

but I was terrified to walk up to the edge.

And all my brothers and sisters,

and my whole family walked up to the edge

and I stayed back.

( laughs ) You know, just scared to--

to take in beauty.

If you're scared,

you're not gonna take the chances that you need

to take to realize your dreams.

And that was the thing for me.

I don't mind being scared,

but... I'm still gonna do it.

( music playing )

( music playing )