In case you haven't heard, the Smith's are a super famous family. You have Will and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith who are in every successful movie ever. Then you have their kids who have been in the spotlight since they could walk. They've built their careers and are well on their way to matching their parent's success. A lot of people watched their son, Jaden, star in some pretty big movies as a kid, but most don't realize that he's all grown up and doing some serious adulting right now. Check it out!
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You can definitely tell Will is one proud dad. Jaden's first acting role was a quick cameo in Men in Black II.
His first major movie was The Pursuit of Happyness, starring alongside his dad.
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Anybody who has seen this movie knows that these two created a seriously tear-jerking film and he was just eight years old at the time!
Two years later, he won the Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Young Actor for his role in The Day the Earth Stood Still.
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Does anybody remember him in The Suite Life of Zack and Cody???
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Of course, another big role of his was starring in The Karate Kid, alongside Jackie Chan. No big deal.
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Apparently Jaden went through some pretty intense training to prepare for the movie.
He would spend days training for eight hours at a time so he could do all the stunts himself. He was just 12 years old. It sounds pretty crazy but it looks like it paid off!
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Jaden became good friends with Justin Bieber, among other big name celebs. I guess that's to be expected when you're an A-list family.
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He spoke to the media and shared his thoughts on education, saying:
"School is not authentic because it ends. It's not true, it's not real. Our learning will never end. The school that we go to every single morning, we will continue to go to, kids who go to normal school are so teenagery, so angsty."
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He released his first mixtape, The Cool Cafe, and followed it up with his first album, This Is The Album in 2015.
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It looks like being musically inclined runs in the family!
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He's now 18 and continues to live a life I will forever be jealous of.
Jaden and his sister, Willow, often perform together.
Willow says that they "figured out that our voices sound like chocolate together. As good as chocolate tastes, it sounds that good."
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Jaden now stars on the Netflix series, The Get Down as Marcus “Dizzee” Kipling.
He's a graffiti artist on the show, and says that it's actually hard to do in real life.
He says that he has a goal to be the most "craziest person of all time."
He wants to do "Olympic-level things" like being the most durable person on earth.
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SHARE if you can't believe how grown up he is now!
