The 11-year-old son of Will Smith stars in the upcoming remake of The Karate Kid. Jaden went through weeks of gruelling martial arts training to prepare for the role and says the work-outs have left him more muscular than ever before.
He is so impressed with his new physique he has kept up his training to ensure his muscles stay taut and toned, and has joked the work-outs have left him bulky enough to pass for muscle-bound Twilight werewolf Taylor.
“I want to stay buff, you know,” Jaden told Irish film site movies.ie. “I’m trying to get my Taylor Lautner thing going on. Just in case they need a stunt double or something.
“I’m like, ‘Buff guy, here! Ready for any action, ready to turn into a werewolf at any time!’”
Jaden stars opposite Jackie Chan in The Karate Kid. He loved working with the veteran Chinese actor, and was constantly amazed by how “amazing” the older star is.
“Oh man, he is amazing,” Jaden gushed. “Man, he was just very straight forward and he would get things done when he needed to get things done, you know?
“He was like the most amazing person ever, and like he was always teaching me things, he was teaching me things about how to stretch correctly, and how to like be in a scene correctly, and he would always tell me ‘OK, yeah, you need to focus…’ He was great.”