Jaden Smith to star as cross-dressing slave in new movie 'The Good Lord Bird'

Jaden Smith's last film was After Earth, which got countless bad reviews in terms of his acting abilities. Who cares though, right? The young Smith has just signed up for a historical satire film based off of James McBride's book The Good Lord Bird. In this movie, Jaden will portray a cross-dressing slave!

Deadline reports:

Liev Schreiber and Jaden Smith are set to star in The Good Lord Bird, a big-screen adaptation of the 2013 National Book Award winner by James McBride (Miracle At St. Anna, Red Hook Summer). McBride is aboard to produce the pic about Henry "Onion" Shackleford (Smith), a young slave who links up with radical abolitionist John Brown (Schreiber) in 1856 Kansas and travels the nation with Brown's motley crew of freedom fighters. Story is told with a satirical bent through the eyes of Onion, who wears a dress and is at first mistaken for a girl, as he bears witness to Brown's historic campaign and encounters the likes of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman en route to the bloody Harper's Ferry raid that helped spark the Civil War.

There are plenty of damning claims that can come out of this role, so we applaud Jaden for taking on this controversial character. Usually a star his age wouldn't want to delve to deep into a cross-dressing slave character, but not our Jaden! He's ready to put all of the bad criticism to shame with this new role.

Are you looking forward to Jaden Smith's return to the acting world in this new movie?