Willow and Jaden Smith Plan to Retire Before 30, Blast ‘Unconscious Cops’ in Interview Magazine Profile

Willow and Jaden Smith Plan to Retire Before 30, Blast ‘Unconscious Cops’ in Interview Magazine Profile

Willow and Jaden Smith are continuing their grand tradition of meandering magazine profiles and high-concept fashion shoots — this time touching on topics ranging from a planned early retirement to the Black Lives Matter movement.

The children of national treasure Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith are cover stars for the September issue of Interview magazine, both looking considerably more grown up (and so much alike in their steely, appealing androgyny).

[...] though they’re clearly coming of age — Jaden is 18, Willow will be 16 in October — their interview with “The Voice” judge and prolific producer Pharrell Williams yielded another mix of earnest discussion of sensitive issues and the tone-deafness many associate with privileged kids.

When Pharrell asked the brother-sister duo about their recommended reading, Willow said Anita Diamant’s “The Red Tent” had struck a deep chord with her, especially for current parallels to tensions between the black community and police forces across the country.

Diamant’s 1997 novel is about a group of women forced to “take refuge” while menstruating or giving birth, and the bonding experiences they have in isolation.

In a much breezier portion toward the end of their interview, Willow and Jaden revealed an affection for Joss Whedon‘s pop culture TV franchise “Buffy The Vampire Slayer,” starring Sarah Michelle Gellar as a blond killer of the undead.

Buffy” did have a character named Willow, played by Alyson Hannigan, who is currently shooting TV Land’s small-screen adaptation of “The First Wives Club.

What’s happening?’ Willow was doing all these things, about to have record label deals at like the age of 6, and I was like, ‘I feel like I’m underachieving.'

Part of the Willow-Jaden allure seems to be the way they manifest a post-millennial belief system without gendered dress codes and other conventional boundaries.

Yeah, bro! I want to retreat back to living off the land and just being in nature, experiencing life in the most pure, natural way possible.

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