Do you remember Sam, the dog who co-starred with Will Smith in the apocalyptic sci-fi movie I Am Legend? 10 Years have passed since the movie was released, and the dog, whose name is actually Abbey, is still doing great, and is currently living with her family and trainer, Steve Berens.
“She’s older now and she doesn’t hear hardly anything. But she’s still kicking, she still likes a ball and likes a bone” Steve said during a recent interview.
“When you work with a lot of actors, they’re not that interested in the animal – a lot of actors look at it as something that the audience is going to be looking at instead of them.”
“But Will was not at all like that. He understood that this was his co-star, and he really dug it and really got into it. […] I think that she really liked him, and that made a difference.”
When Will Smith was a kid, he lost a dog due to a car accident, and he promised himself he would never have another pet in his life, the pain was just too much. But his on-set relationship with Abbey was just too strong, so he even asked her trainer if he could keep her.
“I was begging him. I was like, please let me have Abbey. Please, please, please let me have her. But you know, she has her own family now so it was just another one of those fleeting Hollywood romances.”
