Will Smith, who plays the last man on Earth in the upcoming SF movie
I Am Legend, told reporters that he researched the lives of prisoners of war and convicts in solitary confinement to get into the mindset of an isolated, lonely man.
"It was such a wonderful exploration of myself, because what happens is, you get into a situation where you don't have people to create the stimulus for you to respond to," Smith said in a news conference in Beverly Hills, Calif., last week. "So what happens is, you start creating the stimulus and the response. So there's a connection with yourself that where your mind starts to drift to in those types of situations, that you learn things about yourself that you never would even imagine."