Will Smith's kids see `daddy being mean' in film

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Will Smith's kids see `daddy being mean' in film

AP, 2008-07-04 00:22:20

In this June 30, 2008 file photo, from back row left, actor Will Smith, his son Trey Smith, wife Jada Pinkett-Smith, their son Jaden Smith, front left, and their daughter Willow Smith arrive at the 'Hancock' premiere in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, file)

LOS ANGELES - Will Smith usually plays the hero in his summer blockbusters. But in "Hancock," he drinks, swears, mouths off — and goes to prison.

Smith's role as a superhero-gone-bad could be jarring to some moviegoers — but not his children and wife Jada Pinkett Smith.

"Fortunately, our kids are in the business so they kind of understand," the 39-year-old actor told Associated Press Television News at the red-carpet premiere of the film. "But it is such a bizarre shock for them to see daddy being mean. It was fantastic in our house."

The Hollywood couple's son Jaden co-starred with Smith in 2006's "The Pursuit of Happyness"; daughter Willow can now be seen in the family flick "Kit Kittredge: An American Girl."

(Smith's 15-year-old son, Trey, is from his previous marriage.)

Pinkett Smith, 36, said the children were unfazed by Hancock's in-prison therapy sessions.

"The unfortunate part is that they know all about rehab because of (our) family members, so it wasn't a foreign concept to them," she said. "They totally understand and got it."

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