Will Smith recreates an iconic “Bad Boys” pose nearly 30 years later

"Long time no see."

Will Smith is back in the Porsche.

As the star gears up for the release of Bad Boys: Ride or Die, he's throwing it back with an iconic pose from the first film.

In a video shared to Smith's Instagram on Tuesday, the actor, 55, dressed in all black, gets into the front seat of a Porsche. As he does so, the video, which fittingly features the chorus to Simple Plan's "I'm Just a Kid," flashes to a throwback photograph of Smith making the same pose — also dressed in black — in a similar Porsche, this time from the original Bad Boys film released nearly 30 years ago. "Long time no see," Smith wrote in the caption.

"Lowrey back in action!" Porsche USA's official Instagram account commented on the video, referring to Smith's character, Mike Lowrey. "Feels good to be reunited."

The buddy-cop franchise, which started with 1995's Bad Boys and which spawned sequels Bad Boys II (2003), Bad Boys for Life (2020) and the upcoming Bad Boys: Ride or Die, follows career detectives Mike (Smith) and Marcus (Martin Lawrence), who, yes, frequently drive around in Porsches.

Smith previously told Entertainment Weekly that the forthcoming fourth film is "what a summer movie is supposed to be" and "at the heart of it is love," and utlimately the friendship evolution between Mike and Marcus. "We're trying to expand on what that would mean at this age when people start growing apart and they start wanting different things," Smith said. "You've got 30 years worth of friendship that, for me, it is important in these movies that it gets jeopardized and there is some part of it that has a deeper idea about life, about love, about friendship, about fear. And this one is about fate and what is the part that fate actually plays in the building of a friendship, in a building of life."

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Bad Boys for Life directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah return to direct the new film, which features a script by Chris Bremner and Will Beall. In addition to Lawrence and Smith, Ride or Die also stars Alexander Ludwig, Vanessa Hudgens, Eric Dane, Tasha Smith, Ioan Gruffudd, Paola Nuñez, Jacob Scipio, Melanie Liburd, Tiffany Haddish and Joe Pantoliano.

Bad Boys: Ride or Die is in theaters June 7.

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