Acting a family affair

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BEVERLY HILLS -- There are all kinds of monsters.

In Hollywood, they're called child actors.

Yet that hasn't deterred Will Smith and wife Jada Pinkett Smith from casting their kids in his movies. In I Am Legend, 7-year-old Willow plays Smith's daughter in flashbacks. Last year, 9-year-old Jaden portrayed his son in The Pursuit of Happyness.

Smith says he and Pinkett Smith often debate the question of, "Nature versus nurture. Is it because two actors went to Mexico and drank some tequila and made a baby? Does that make the baby an actor?"

So how do his children rate? Laughs Smith, "Jaden is Johnny Depp. He just wants to do good work. He doesn't care what money he gets. He doesn't care if people see it or don't see it. He just loves acting. He just wants to make good movies. And Willow's Paris Hilton. Willow wants to be on TV. We are managing both of those in our household."

As well as trying to keep them grounded.

"For us, travelling is hugely important -- for our kids to see other things and experience other things," he says, citing trips to South Africa and Italy as examples.

"We live in la-la land out here. Los Angeles and New York are cut off from the rest of the country and the rest of the world."

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