Is this the weirdest family in Hollywood? Their Scientology supporting dad's given to spouting nonsense - now Will Smith's children are ridiculed for boasting they can control time

One of Hollywood’s most powerful partnerships, the Men In Black star Will Smith and his actress wife Jada Pinkett Smith, are also considered one of the most preposterously kooky.

But this week it emerged that another Hollywood pair may be even more self-inflated, pretentious and just downright strange — their teenage children.

Perhaps it shouldn’t be that surprising. Jaden, 16, and Willow, 14, are home-schooled, which has ensured maximum exposure to their parents.

Willow, Jaden, Will and Jada Pinkett Smith pictured at the All Political Prisoners' film premiere

Jaden, 16, and Willow, 14, are home-schooled, which has ensured maximum exposure to their parents

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In a joint interview with the New York Times, they insisted that they enjoyed being taught at home — conventional education, they said, is over-rated and depressing. They went on to pontificate about quantum physics, why they prefer to write novels than read them, and their ability to manipulate time itself.

Of course, the Smith children are young and impressionable. But even making allowances for this, their utterings have variously been described as ‘immeasurably bizarre’, beyond parody and ever so slightly terrifying.

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