Motivational speaker to help create the next Chris Gardner in Malaysia

Happy pair: Smith and Gardner attending a function.

PETALING JAYA: Any man would have been thrilled to have Will Smith play him – as Chris Gardner did in the film The Pursuit of Happyness.

However, the stockbroker-turn­ed-motivational speaker has a bone to pick with the film, for which Smith earned an Oscar and a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor.