In his 2021 memoir, Will recalled Jaden asking the query at 15 years outdated after he was broadly mocked and criticized for his look within the 2013 movie After Earth alongside his dad.
“After Earth was an abysmal field workplace and demanding failure,” Will wrote. “And what was worse was that Jaden took the hit.”
“Followers and the press had been completely vicious; they stated and printed issues about Jaden that I refuse to repeat. Jaden had faithfully executed every little thing that I might instructed him to do, and I had coached him into the worst public mauling he’d ever skilled,” he continued.
“At 15 years outdated, when Jaden requested about being an emancipated minor, my coronary heart shattered. He finally determined towards it, nevertheless it sucks to really feel such as you’ve harm your children,” Will added.