He went into acting against the advice of his well-meaning parents, who warned him that it was a lot harder than it looked. “But everything I do in my life, I do for my parents.” “Failure is important because it’s how you keep going,” says Jaden Smith. “I’m young and on the path of trying to make things happen,” he says.
Sporting powder-pink hair and clad in apparel from his MSFTSRep sustainably-sourced fashion brand Smith possessed his father’s charisma the directness of his mother, actress Jada Pinkett Smith and a preternatural maturity. Smith expounded on the subject as part of an insightful address at the “Make It Happen” track, a panel discussion at WeWork’s recent Global Summit in Los Angeles. “People think it’s the new car, the job promotion, but it’s not. “Unhindered, long-term happiness,” he emphasizes. It’s the overarching goal in life, says the 20-year-old musician-activist-entrepreneur. Muccino proved everyone wrong, because he cast Jaden in the film, which went on to make over $307 million at the box office worldwide (via IMDb). After his breakout performance, Jaden was cast in "The Day the Earth Stood Still," "The Karate Kid," "After Earth," and "The Good Lord Bird" (via IMDb).For Jaden Smith, The Pursuit of Happyness is more than just the creatively misspelled title of the film he debuted in at age seven with his superstar dad, Will Smith. They felt that people wouldn't be able to suspend disbelief seeing Jaden and you on camera as father and son" (via Insider). In Will Smith's self-titled memoir, he recalled that Muccino told him, "The studio felt like it was a death sentence for the film from a marketing standpoint.
Will Smith discussed working with his son in the movie during an interview with movie and book critic Kam Williams, and stated, "Having my son, and being able to lay in a subway bathroom, with my real son, just added to the ability to be able to transform and to become Chris Gardner for those moments."Įven though director Gabriele Muccino wanted to hire Jaden to portray Christopher Gardner, Jr., the studio wouldn't allow it at first.
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