His clothing brand, MSFTSRep, has the lofty ambition of reusing materials as much as possible: Pants that Smith wore on stage were embellished with patches of old T-shirts that would have otherwise ended up in a landfill.Īnd then there’s JUST Water, his brand of water bottled in Glen Falls, New York, which comes in plant-derived packaging with a cap made from sugarcane, designed to be reused or recycled with none of the long-term environmental impact of plastic. He nabbed roles in other films- The Karate Kid and After Earth -while segueing into music his debut album, SYRE, which came out in late 2017, hit 100 million streams on Spotify.

But when his dad had trouble finding the right young boy to play his son in Pursuit, Smith got his chance. He went into acting against the advice of his well-meaning parents, who warned him that it was a lot harder than it looked. “But everything I do in my life, I do for my parents.” “Failure is important because it’s how you keep going,” says Jaden Smith.

“I’m young and on the path of trying to make things happen,” he says. Sporting powder-pink hair and clad in apparel from his MSFTSRep sustainably-sourced fashion brand Smith possessed his father’s charisma the directness of his mother, actress Jada Pinkett Smith and a preternatural maturity. Smith expounded on the subject as part of an insightful address at the “Make It Happen” track, a panel discussion at WeWork’s recent Global Summit in Los Angeles. “People think it’s the new car, the job promotion, but it’s not. “Unhindered, long-term happiness,” he emphasizes.

It’s the overarching goal in life, says the 20-year-old musician-activist-entrepreneur. For Jaden Smith, The Pursuit of Happyness is more than just the creatively misspelled title of the film he debuted in at age seven with his superstar dad, Will Smith.

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