Will Smith admitted his children caught the acting bug. Nine year old Jaden made his acting debut with his dad in The Pursuit of Happiness, and now his seven year old daughter Willow will co-star with Will in I Am Legend. Unfortunately, the acting experience turned Will’s daughter into “Paris Hilton.”
“She has a drive,” Smith tells People. “She has an energy and she just connects to human emotion. I think a big part was probably [seeing] Jaden after The Pursuit of Happyness. She saw what Jaden did, and she was like, ‘I want that.’”
“Jaden is [like] Johnny Depp,” Smith says. “He just wants to do good work . . . He loves acting, he just wants to make good movies.
“And Willow is Paris Hilton,” Smith says, laughing. “Willow wants to be on TV.”
Oh, and she’s a little diva.
“You don’t work with Willow,” Smith says, teasing. “You work for Willow.”
In one grueling outdoor sequence for I Am Legend, temperatures dropped well below zero, Smith says – but that didn’t stop his daughter from finishing her scenes.
“Willow was out there and she has her stuff on and she’s cold and she’s getting a little irritable. And she looks at me and says, “Daddy, I don’t care how low it goes. I’m going to finish.’
“I was like, ‘Wow, that’s good baby, because Daddy’s leaving if it goes any lower then that 1.”
Will said he and wife Jada Smith don’t just give their children roles, they make them audition just like anyone else. Um… sure.
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December 3rd, 2007 at 9:27 am
Is Will’s oldest son really old enough to be sporting a stache already? Good Lord, time flies. I remember him as a little boy in the Just the Two of Us video.
Oh and isn’t it just absolutely wrong to compare your own kid to Paris? Yuck!
December 3rd, 2007 at 9:51 am
Shit, it sounds like she has a work ethic. That alone should make any Paris Hilton comparisons automatically wrong. And Jaden was ADORABLE in that movie. But I doubt, too, that they have to audition for shit.
December 3rd, 2007 at 10:27 am
These people are insufferable. The only thing worse than stage parents who put their kids in show business at a young age (see Lynne Spears) is stage parents who are already rich and famous. Why don’t these morons raise their kids to do something good in this world instead of just making more shifty movies like their parents? These kids are gonna end up VERY fucked up.
December 4th, 2007 at 1:18 am
aww at will’s oldest son, and will is getting a bit gray himself.
I can’t wait for willow’s sex tape in 11 years. I bet those kids are spoiled rotten.