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Actor Will Smith pays US$100,000 for Jul 4 fireworks in New Orleans

He did so after learning that the city didn't plan a 2021 show, city officials told news outlets.

Actor Will Smith pays US$100,000 for Jul 4 fireworks in New Orleans

In this Monday, Jan. 6, 2020, file photo, U.S actor Will Smith poses for photographers during the photo call of "Bad Boys for Life," in Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

Fireworks are returning to New Orleans on Independence Day thanks to actor Will Smith.

Smith is picking up the roughly US$100,000 (S$134,000) tab for the pyrotechnics over the Mississippi River after learning New Orleans didn't plan a 2021 show, city officials told news outlets.

New Orleans cancelled last year's fireworks because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Smith is in New Orleans working on his latest film Emancipation, which will tell the story of a slave, Peter, who escaped a Louisiana plantation and whose photo of scars on his back from being whipped exposed the brutality of slavery. He would also fight for the Union in the Civil War.

READ: Actor-rapper Will Smith opening up about life story, releasing memoir in November

Smith moved production of the film from Georgia to Louisiana in early April after Georgia passed a new voting law that prompted a federal lawsuit saying the overhaul was intended to deny black voters equal access to the ballot.

(Source: AP)

Source: AP/sr

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