Long before Will Smith was slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars, he was a young actor still finding his feet in the film industry. Having made his name on television, the transition to the big screen presented an entirely new set of challenges, including one early role that forced him to confront a scene he simply wasn’t comfortable performing. Throughout the 1980s and into the early 1990s, Smith could do no wrong in the public’s eye. The Philadelp…