Hollywood star channels his famous dad in creepy new horror film Smile 2

It’s the creepy caller fearfulness sequel frightening audiences with a sinister grin – featuring a malevolent curse which kills the afflicted by, uh, smiling astatine them.

Aladdin prima Naomi Scott leads Parker Finn’s Smile 2, a follow-up to the 2022 supernatural thriller astir a demonic entity which is dispersed done smiling.

Scott stars arsenic planetary popular sensation Skye Riley, who contracts the curse aft a run-in with her cause trader takes a comic turn. Tormented by visions of grinning entities – which tin manifest arsenic thing from full strangers to figures from Skye’s past.

And, successful co-star Ray Nicholson, the movie features the lad of Hollywood royalty – the Joker himself, Jack Nicholson.

The household resemblance is wide – with Ray grinning from receptor to receptor successful a mode which eerily recalls his dad’s celebrated roles successful The Shining and Tim Burton’s Batman.

Ray plays Skye’s precocious partner, Paul Hudson, who shows up astatine a showbiz gala to terrify the mediocre popular prima from beyond the grave.

Actor Ray, 32, is 1 of Jack Nicholson’s six (!) children from his narration with histrion Rebecca Broussard.

Born successful 1992, Ray has gone connected to travel successful his father’s footsteps, making his surface debut successful 2006’s The Benchwarmers. From this smaller role, helium went connected to look successful films similar Promising Young Woman, Licorice Pizza and the TV bid Panic.

Jack and Rebecca besides had 1 girl together, successful histrion and manager Lorraine Nicholson, calved successful 1990.

As 1 of Hollywood’s astir legendary lotharios, Jack, 87, has 4 different children with abstracted women: Jennifer Nicholson, from woman Sandra Knight; Caleb Goddard, with Susan Anspach, and Honey Hollman, 41, with exemplary Winnie Hollman.

He besides reportedly fathered different girl with waitress Jeannine Gourin successful 1990 – estranged Tessa, who the histrion has ne'er acknowledged arsenic his own.

He has been romantically linked to histrion Lara Flynn Boyle, supermodel Kate Moss and Addams Family prima Anjelica Huston (who helium dated from 1973 to 1990).

Jack and Ray were pictured unneurotic past twelvemonth at a hoops crippled successful Los Angeles, sitting side-by-side arsenic the now-reclusive prima took successful a lucifer betwixt the Los Angeles Lakers and the Golden State Warriors.

The Easy Rider prima has mostly disappeared from the nationalist oculus successful caller years and hasn’t appeared connected surface since the 2010 romanticist drama How Do You Know.

Jack is present surviving a beingness of leisure, emerging lone to cheer connected his beloved LA Lakersat the occasional hoops game.

On channelling his celebrated begetter successful Smile 2, Ray told Deadline: ‘We’re precise antithetic people. Obviously, I emotion him.’

‘He’s my inspiration. I ate meal with him each night. I studied it, that’s however I learned to beryllium a quality being. So of people we’re gonna beryllium benignant of similar.’

Ray isn’t the lone nepo babe to look successful the Smile bid – pursuing successful the footsteps of Sosie Bacon, 32, who starred successful the archetypal movie arsenic Doctor Rose Cotter.

Actor Sosie is the girl of Hollywood icons Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick.

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