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Jaden Christopher Syre Smith (born July 8, 1998) is an American rapper and actor. The son of Jada Pinkett-Smith and Will Smith, he has received various accolades, including a Teen Choice Award, an MTV Movie Award, a BET Award and a Young Artist Award. He has received a Grammy Award nomination, and has won two NAACP Image Awards and an Empire Award. Smith made his film debut with his father Will in the 2006 film The Pursuit of Happyness, and appeared with his father once more in the 2013 film After Earth. He also co-starred in the remake films The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008), along with Keanu Reeves, and The Karate Kid (2010), with Jackie Chan. Following a three-year hiatus, he returned to acting in 2016, starring in the two-part Netflix series The Get Down, and voice-acting in the company's anime series, Neo Yokio. As a recording artist, Smith first guest performed on Canadian singer Justin Bieber's 2010 single, "Never Say Never". Released for The Karate Kid's accompanying soundtrack, the song peaked within the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 and received quintuple platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). He later released multiple mixtapes, including CTV2 (2014). Following a three-year work effort, he signed with Roc Nation and Interscope Records to release his debut studio album, Syre (2017). It peaked at number 24 on the Billboard 200, while his second and third albums, Erys (2019) and CTV3: Cool Tape Vol. 3 (2020), peaked at numbers 12 and 44, respectively. In 2022, he was nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of the Year as a featured artist on Bieber's album Justice. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jaden Smith, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The most faithful retelling of the Persephone myth ever committed to television. Persephone is portrayed not as a victim of abduction but as a young goddess chafing under the suffocating overprotection of her mother Demeter, drawn to the Underworld by genuine curiosity. She encounters Hades — not as a captor but as an equal: a god who governs with justice, who is deeply lonely in a realm the other Olympians avoid, and who is unpracticed in the expression of what he feels. The pomegranate seeds are her choice — eaten deliberately, having understood their meaning. The series is Persephone's coming-of-age: learning who she is separately from her mother, building her own identity as Queen of the Underworld, and developing a genuine, complicated love with Hades built on mutual respect and intellectual equal footing. Hades throughout is portrayed faithfully to mythology: patient, fair, deeply honorable, and genuinely devoted. He never manipulates, never coerces, never performs drama. His tragedy is simply that he is the god nobody visits willingly, and that the person who finally does changes everything.
