Will Smith pays for July 4 fireworks in New Orleans

It was a dull Independence Day in New Orleans last year and Will Smith made sure nothing of that sort repeated this year.

The Hollywood actor picked up the roughly $100,000 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 had cancelled last year’s fireworks because of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Meanwhile, Will Smith is currently in New Orleans as he is 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.