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IN DEPTH: Will Smith and Jaden Smith attend the After Earth premiere at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York

MOVIE MEGASTAR Will Smith has conducted what some are calling the “most bizarre interview in Hollywood history”.

The I Am Legend actor, who was recently in London for a whistle-stop tour promoting his new film After Earth, was interviewed in Q&A format by New York magazine, in which he discussed his worldview.

His teenage son Jaden also sat in on the interview.

Smith – whose spiritual alignment is cast in ambiguity due to him claiming he is not a Scientologist, despite donating money to organisations associated with the L Ron Hubbard group – told the American publication about “patterns” and “equations”.

He said: “I'm a student of patterns. At heart, I'm a physicist. I look at everything in my life as trying to find the single equation, the theory of everything.”

Wanting to further explore what Smith meant by “patterns”, Smith elucidated such patterns could help inform him if he should make another film with his son.

“If you were a student of the pattern, you'd have to say we were going to do another one”, he told interviewer Claire Hoffman.

Attempting to clarify his theory of the pattern, Smith found a way out by claiming: “the forum of media that we're in can't really handle the complexity of things that we say all the time.”

Elaborating deeper into his father’s philosophical, mathematical and spiritual musings, 14-year-old Jaden said: “I think that there is that special equation for everything, but I don't think our mathematics have evolved enough for us to even – I think there's, like, a whole new mathematics that we'd have to learn to get that equation.”

His father concurred, and young Karate Kid actor added: “It’s beyond mathematical. It’s, like, multidimensional mathematical, if you can sort of understand what I'm saying.”

Striking a tolerant note when probed over whether he and his son were "religious", Smith senior said: "No, we are students of world religion.

"We respect all [religions]."