Tom Cruise and Will Smith are so tight that when Will Smith wanted someone to play a younger version of himself in a movie, Tom Cruise knew just the person.

And that person is Connor Cruise, Tom Cruise’s very own son. According to reports, Connor Cruise is all set to play baby Will Smith in the upcoming drama Seven Pounds which, since it stars Will Smith, is probably about an overfamiliar man with a slightly too loud laugh saving the world with his top off somehow.

Hopefully this is just Connor Cruise’s first step in taking on the family business. If his role in Seven Pounds is a success then who know, in a few years Connor Cruise might become the biggest, most powerful movie star in the world, only to fart it away by loudly vocalising his devotion to a nutty religion that some people claim preys on the weak. It’s what his daddy would want.

Now that Tom Cruise has Suri Cruise and Nicole Kidman has her own unborn baby brewing away up her guts, poor old Connor Cruise hasn’t been getting the attention he used to enjoy.

Sure, for a while after Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman divorced Connor Cruise could play them off each other for material gain, but that was a long time ago and now all he’s left with is anonymity and the weird sense of not knowing whether to be repulsed or aroused when he watches Eyes Wide Shut because although that’s his parents doing it onscreen, they’re just his adopted parents and that never really stopped Woody Allen did it.

But our imagined spiral of Connor Cruise’s self-disgust ends right now, because he’s gone and got himself a job. No, not a job delivering newspapers or sweeping chimneys or unblocking jammed waste disposal units with his little hands like you had when you were 13 years old – Connor Cruise is going to be in a major movie. And, as People reports, he’s going to be playing the role of Tom Cruise’s best-ever friend:

Following in his parents’ footsteps, Connor Cruise will make his film debut in the upcoming Will Smith drama Seven Pounds, PEOPLE has learned. Connor, 13 – who has grown up around movie sets with mom Nicole Kidman and dad Tom Cruise – will play a young version of Smith in a very minor role. Even with such famous acting mentors in his corner, Connor had to audition for the part. “Tom is so proud of Connor,” says a source. “He’s proud of him for really doing this on his own.”

Yeah, and we’re sure all the other failed auditionees took the news perfectly well when they learnt that, in the fair and unbiased selection process that they’d spent weeks preparing for, the role ended up going to the son of the man who introduced the movie’s star to the wonders of Scientology.

Anyway, we’re certain that Connor Cruise’s casting in Seven Pounds hasn’t got a darkly sinister streak of religious nepotism running through it at all. Connor Cruise probably just had the most amount of experience. Remember that his parents are both famous movie stars, and the childhood that Connor spent on the sets of huge movies like War Of The Worlds, Minority Report and Moulin Rouge has probably taught him a lesson in the machinations of filmmaking that you couldn’t get if you spent a decade studying it at university.

Plus, let’s not forget that Connor Cruise gets to hang around Katie Holmes a lot too now, and she’s probably taught him, um… look, we’ll have to get back to you on that, OK?

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Connor Cruise Is Making His Big Screen Debut – People