Calling it “an awful and disgusting lie,” Will Smith said through his publicist that he is angry with a newspaper reporter’s interpretation of comments he made about Hitler, The Associated Press reported. In an article published Saturday in The Daily Record, in Scotland, Mr. Smith was quoted as saying: “Even Hitler didn’t wake up going, ‘Let me do the most evil thing I can do today.’ I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was good.” The quotation was preceded by the reporter’s observation, “Remarkably, Will believes everyone is basically good.” On Monday the Jewish Defense League denounced the reported comment and urged movie theaters to stop showing “I Am Legend,” in which Mr. Smith stars. In his publicist’s statement, the actor said: “I am incensed and infuriated to have to respond to such a ludicrous misinterpretation. Adolf Hitler was a vile, heinous vicious killer responsible for one of the greatest acts of evil committed on this planet.”