We admit we didn’t realize Jaden Smith was quite this kooky, and now we’re officially in love. Most celeb interviews put us to sleep, but Smith’s flamboyance at the MET gala even dwarfs the myriad eccentricities of Vogue’s André Leon Talley. That’s quite the accomplishment.
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Dressed smartly in his futuristic space-vampire regalia, Smith shows off his ass-kicking high heels, and then gives Talley a quick primer on his glimmering gold teeth. (Don’t worry: There are some diamonds in there too.)
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Of keen interest: The fact that Jaden is carrying around a huge thatch of his old hair in his pocket “since I couldn’t bring my sister as a date.”
This is what celebrity culture should be like all the time.
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Eldred
Queerty, what’s with the Buzzfeed clickbait title?
Anyway, I love to hear him speak and see the seriousness in his face.
Good kid, doing what he wants to do.
Donston
What’s with posting an article of something that was widely publicized several days ago, and why here?
OrchidIslander
“Since I couldn’t bring my sister as my date, I brought my old hair.”
Loved it!
Well spoken, seemingly nice kid.
Bob LaBlah
I’m wondering WHY couldn’t he bring his little sister with him. She is just as flaky as he is all thanks to their parents borderline criminal upbringing of the pair. Neither one went to school with children who weren’t involved in that damn cult their parents belong to. Seeing how they turned out I don’t blame Katie Holmes for tell Tom Cruz “Suri is not going to that cult school” and split with her daughter. Bravo honey.
vegwell
I didn’t know they were Hubbard cultists – wow.
starkraver
I lovingly respect this kid.
Donston
Why is there so much “respect” and “love” for this “kid”?
jonasalden
@Donston: there is so much respect and love for him because everybody’s thinking the same thing: they’d like to red-shirt him for a later, er, date. Waiting for him to hit 21 so they can pounce, in their heads at least.
CaliKyle
Because so many mistake pretentiousness and vapidity for something genuine and substantive.
Donston
He’s grown into a cute guy. But he doesn’t actually do anything. He’s not particularly outspoken about anything. He’s not charming or clever or anything. Yet, is obsessed with the spotlight and has said a lot of pretentious/nonsensical stuff (which is expected for his age and environment). He just appears obsessed with being different and getting attention. Seems like another over-privileged, empty-headed snowflake with no sense of how the “real world” works.
There’s no reason to hate the dude. And he doesn’t seem to be a douche like many in his position. But I don’t see where the “love” and “respect” comes from beyond, yes, masturbatory material.
strongforu
In response to Donston, he actually does quite a bit. He has a successful clothing line called Misfits, he has a new album coming out soon, he stars in the smash Netflix hit ‘The Getdown’ (now in it’s second season), he’s acted in several big budget films, and the list goes on. In addition to all that, he’s told the establishment to f*ck the gender binary and live your life on your own terms. All of this and he’s only 18.
frankcar1965
strongforu he’s done All that because he is a little rich kid who has been handed everything, he has produced NOTHING of his own.
Vince
@strongforu. Jewelry and clothing lines are basically rich kid careers. Getting a head start in Hollywood is a given when you have a A list famous daddy. They even starred together in one movie.
Reminds me of someone like Torri Spellings career. We all know where that came from.
Vince
Scott Eastwood would be another example of privilege. Can’t act worth shit but his daddy is famous and he’s cute in a hollywood way so he gets to be in movies.
SnakeyJ
This guy is an arrogant, entitled piece of crap. He needs to go away. Ignorant, unintelligent and uneducated.
Mandrake
What’s going on with his teeth? They look rotted. Crystal meth?
mhoffman953
“How Can Mirrors Be Real If Our Eyes Aren’t Real” – Jaden Smith
Doug
This kid is an example of how growing up in Hollywood with rich, famous parents can go way too far.
Donston
The whole probable Scientologists and possible inter-sexual household probably didn’t help either. Never mind the extreme arrogance and self-importance that was likely inherited.
Bob LaBlah
“Never mind the extreme arrogance and self-importance that was likely inherited.”
You hit the nail on the head with that one. The last movie his father starred in that I could actually stomach was Independence Day back in the 1990’s (though the critics panned it I thought The Wild Wild West was pretty good). E-V-E-R-Y movie he was in since sucked. He and Jaden should have been jailed for agreeing to do After Earth. Thats just how awful I thought that movie was.
dre23222
But you don’t have to worry about his growing up in Hollywood so it shouldn’t affect you at all if it’s far or not.
MediaGuy
It’s that super feminine way he shakes the old guys hand in the end that’s so so seksi. I’m not liking the teeth or how his face is maturing, he was so much more attractive when he was younger. (okay, when he was a babe). Now, the only part of this kid that I want is the part we cannot see.
pharaon.em.joe
A little pedophilia?
frankcar1965
pharaon.em.joe he happens to be 18 so no, no pedophilia, he’s good for anything and everything.
Black Pegasus
I would smash Jaden’s pretty mocha creamed color ass. He’s such a cutie.
Blackceo
Co-sign. He is so cute with his new hair cut.
tnguy222
For real. I bet he pushes that ass back like a good boy.
Blackceo
I love Jaden Smith. Yes he’s weird but there’s just something about him I find endearing. With all the other jacked up celebrity kids getting arrested for this and that, I’ll take his quirkiness. He grew up belonging to one of the most successful Black entertainment families in the business and lord knows in Hollywood its easy to succumb to some really bad decisions with that much money. So I say do you Jaden.
frankcar1965
Really a vapid comment and not just a little offensive. How about admiring a black person who has done something constructive and not an actor, singer or athlete. Typical shallow American attitude, I’m surprised you did not note how good he can sing and dance.
Donston
It’s amazing how much value humility, honesty and intelligence have lost.
Donston
The standards for what’s considered cool nowadays is quite shocking. He’s the child of an extremely rich, arrogant and phony couple and has had all his opportunities handed to him. He has no talent, no perspective on anything, no wit and is pretentious as hell. But because he’s “different” (he wore a skirt! he thinks he’s a vampire!), hasn’t been arrested and is cute to some he’s worthy of being admired. I just don’t get it.
Yes, do you. I just don’t understand what is there to admire.
1EqualityUSA
Well, you posted six times on this one thread, so it must have more importance for you than you know.
Donston
I don’t see how your comment can be a response to anything I’ve said in my six (and now seventh) posts.
Like I said, I don’t hate the dude. There’s no reason to. I just don’t see any reasoning behind kissing his arse or see anything he’s done as worthy of respect, praise or admiration besides staying out of prison.
Blackceo
Oh so you’re trying to come for me without actually addressing me. Ok. Well I”m addressing you Donston. An opinion is like an assh0le….everybody has one….or multiple assh0les given how many times you posted on this thread. Did Jaden Smith steal your lunch money or something cuz the vitriol you have for this kid seems rather extreme. But whatever…its not for you to understand why I like him. I do. You don’t. The end. Buh bye!!!!
pharaon.em.joe
I second 1EqualityUSA. your comments are Very hating and loathing.
IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou
Just be glad he isn’t acting again.
fredo777
I don’t see anything wrong with how Jaden carried himself in this interview. He was polite and handled himself well. It’s funny how entitled and arrogant get used as labels for certain persons, as opposed to certain others who are just seen as confident. Besides which, he is working on music and acting, to respond to the claims that he doesn’t do anything. I won’t delve into the reasoning behind some of his criticism, but I do find some of it unwarranted.
freedom_power
Just been reading some of the comments left on here !! guys dont be fooled by the cute smile ! the dude is walking about pretending to be a vampire and is carrying a wod of his hair in his pocket !! dats messed up !!! let me ask you !! would you go on a night out with your hair in your pocket !! and if you met a cute guy who pulled out his hair, I am sure it would make you think twice about going back to his…
DCguy
No, but I also wouldn’t date somebody who wanted to spend all of their vacations visiting train museums and lived with their mother, but that doesn’t mean I give a crap about telling them how to live.
Do I think the kid has a bizzare outlook on life and has probably been overindulged? Absolutely. But I think his outlook on life is 10000 times less damaging and hurtful to others than the entire GOP and right wing religious leaders who seek to do harm to everybody. This kid is just doing his own thing with no damage done to anybody else. Have at it Jayden!
DCguy
It must be confusing for Scientology. They are ferociously anti-lgbt, but they are desperate to have any celebrities as members.
What do you do when the kid of one of your biggest kind of members, is publicly going around like this? LOL
The 200 remaining Scientology members must be having fits.
paul dorian lord fredine
high heels? they’re boots. big deal.
Captain Obvious
All the weird and freaky hoops they make black people jump through to be famous. You wouldn’t catch them doing this crap to Scott Eastwood. And shame on Will and Jada for letting them do it.
Seems like every tv show or movie now has black characters being hyper-sexual or just plain weird and now it’s seeping into real life with the actual celebrities in public. Money isn’t worth selling your soul and being fake.
This boy is not trans nor is he into drag and all this other stuff. One day he’ll be a grown man wondering why he allowed someone else to erase his entire identity for fame he probably never even wanted.
Mandrake
This kid needs serious psychological intervention. Something is radically wrong. He is not just expressing his unique flair of creativity, and there’s nothing cute about him. If he lived in the real world of middle class suburbia, he’d be beaten up every day in school.
danielplainview1981
CLICK BAIT
frankcar1965
Hello!!! Queerty is ALL Cick Bait or have you not noticed.
verbaltopman
What’s with the adulation? This guy was a pretentious, annoying child, tweeting his laughably affected oh-so-wise (not!) wannabe philosophies about life. Now he shows up in heels and is deemed darling by people? Puh-leeze. He’s the product of having an egomaniacal father who evidently continually told him he was “special” and brought him up to be insufferably hip. And, true to American fashion, you’re all too willing to worship people who are famous.
NateOcean
“Dressed smartly in his futuristic space-vampire regalia…”
Yes, because in the future, we will all be space-vampires.
Mort
Forget Jaden Smith. Someone explain Andre Leon Talley, to me the avatar of the Inexplicable.
Bob LaBlah
I have always wonder if Andre Talley was the real life person depicted in the movie The Devil Wears Prada (the one who was promoted at the end of the movie over that annoying balding, white queen who just KNEW she was going to get that job).
He BGB
He’s so over the top and crazy, yet 10 times more real and interesting and talented than all those awful Kardashian and Jenner children girls/women.I don’t care if he is a vampire, at least he isn’t taking away an Indian model’s job at Vogue or confused in the Pepsi fiasco.
salumbre
Hollywood nepotism at its finest.
seaguy
You know that old queen Andre was thinking “I want to get me some of that” about Jaden.
dre23222
Well spoken guy! Love him. Glad he recognizes a legend like Andre Leon Tally. I am the other Andre lol
Sluggo2007
He’s no better than a Kartrashian. Maybe more of a lady, but otherwise, no better.
victorg
perfect example of entitlement (and horribly bad parenting) gone WRONG!
Ummmm Yeah
Poor thing got his mother’s lack of talent.
o.codone
Why are you re-posting this story from May? The one person who woks at Queerty maybe has a hangover or a dentist appointment or something. Strange.
Danny595
Much respect for Jaden. For educating the public on the link between effeminacy and mental illness.
crowebobby
Isn’t he living his life according to the only world he knows? Just like the children of evangelicals, Quakers, Jihad terrorists and middle-class Americans do? This is how you are accepted and become successful in the world he knows. And he’s cute — for now — so who cares what he does?
Rex Huskey
the hell with his pocket….WTF is wrong with his teeth….?
o.codone
Maybe it’s that the Queerty audience (all three of them) are demented, so none of them realize that this is a re-hashed story.
surfpenis
LOL at some of you guys about to burst a blood vessel getting all worked up over this talentless little twit.