Will Smith - "Don’t Compare My Family to the Kardashians"

Will Smith and son Jaden Smith play father and son for the second time, in the upcoming post-apocalyptic “After Earth.” Speaking with New York Magazine in a joint interview, they deny any similarity with another famous showbiz family, the Kardashians.

The interview, which is available in full at the link above, starts off well but then steers into awkward territory when the interviewer tries to get Jaden to talk about his rumored romance with Kylie Jenner.

Will motions him not to answer and then answers himself the question of whether they consider themselves similar or “un-similar” to the Kardashians, who have “treated their fame as the family business.”

The difference, he explains, is that they, the Smiths, only look at fame as an occasionally unwanted by-product of their real job. It’s not the end result.

“For our family, the entire structure of our life, our home, our business relationships—the entire purpose is for everyone to be able to create in a way that makes them happy. Fame is almost an inconsequential by-product of what we’re really trying to accomplish,” he says.

“We are trying to put great things into the world, we’re trying to have fun, and we’re trying to become the greatest versions of ourselves in the process of doing things we love,” Will continues.

“So the idea of fame or exploitation or orchestrating the media is sometimes even less than desirable for us,” he adds.

To his credit, Will doesn’t name the Kardashians once but he is slamming every little thing they stand for.

“It may seem like we have pushed our kids into the business, but that is absolutely insane. I would never, ever, push somebody to have their face on a poster that’s going be everywhere in the world. He is making a choice from the informed. It’s less scary to me than if he wanted to be a dentist in that I couldn’t help with what he’d chosen,” he then says, asked if Jaden could have been a dentist.