I think if Will Smith was an actor before he was a rapper, he probably would have been in IR on a regular basis. Denzel Washington was in a film called Carbon Copy, in which he played the son of George Segal. I think he had been in IR before he got married. I guess because they were black men in the entertainment industry, and the fact that they need as much support as they can get because there were (and still are)very few black leading men in Hollywood. And these men wanted to continue to work. And while they are still working, they have to appeal to the black female demographic. Look at Taye Diggs and his somewhat secret relationship with Idina Menzel. They thought that he betrayed them. I guess the same would happen to Denzel and Will if they did.