Will Smith is getting candid about his hands-off parenting style, joking that he and his wife Jada Pinkett-Smith "might have gone too far."
The topic was broached Tuesday during an interview with disc jockey A.Dot on BBC Radio 1Xtra, in which Smith was asked if he consciously allows his kids "a lot of freedom of expression."
"Yeah, I think it may have been a mistake," the Concussion star quipped with a hearty laugh.
"I think we may have gone too far."
A.Dot followed up by asking Smith, "How do you respond then, for example, if you encourage them to have freedom of expression and then people will start making jokes about say Jaden modeling women's clothes.
How do you – as a dad – handle that?"
"There's a really powerful internal quality as an artist that as parents we encourage," Smith responded.
"You gotta get out on the edge, you have to try things, you have to be comfortable doing things that people don't agree with, and you have to be comfortable doing things that you could fail.