The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: Will Smith’s awkward backstory of what’s going on

The controversy surrounding Willie Smith does not subside. This time, an old friend was in trouble.

Willie Smith He’s been acting relatively low key lately, ever since he slapped the host. Chris Rock on stage at the Oscars 2022, an incident that banned him from all future events Oscars for 10 years. He will appear in the fourth film Bad Boys filming began in April in Atlanta. One of Smith’s most famous early performances was as a gay man who scammed wealthy New Yorkers in “6 degrees of separation

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Willie, the new prince of Bel-Air: so many memories

Willie, the new prince of Bel-Air Premiered in 1990, after Smith’s character, Willafter his mother sent him from Philadelphia to live with her uncle phil in the wealthy area of ​​Bel Air.

The series, which also starred Alfonso Ribeiro, James Avery, Janet Hubert, Tatiana Ali, Karin Parsons, Joseph Marcell, Daphne Maxwell Reed and DJ Jazzy Jeff, go to six seasonsbefore graduating in 1996.

November 2020 the cast, including Smith, Ali, Parsons, Marcell, Reid and Ribeiro, gathered in the show’s iconic lounge for emotional and moving reunion thirty years after debut. In the special, the cast discussed their family ties both on and off screen, as well as the enduring impact of the NBC sitcom.

At that time, RuPaul — whose real name is RuPaul Andre Charles — began to make headway in the music business in the early 90s after directing a music video for his 1992 dance track.supermodel

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What did Willie Smith do?

As reported, Will Smith he would turn down the opportunity to offer cameo role of promising drag queen RuPaul, in the popular sitcom of the 90s, Willie, the new prince of Bel-Air.

The statement comes from the executive producer of the series, David Stephen Simonmentioned in a new book by a journalist Thea Glassman, Freaks, Glicks, and Dawson’s Creek: How Seven Teen Shows Changed Television.

Glassman points out that although Smith usually accepted other people’s ideas without hesitation, the Oscar-winning actor she would have refused Simon’s offer.

“I remember him saying that it would be a very bad idea.says the executive producer. At the time, RuPaul had recently broken into the mainstream with the 1992 dance hit “Supermodels (You better work)”, a video that became a classic of the decade. In 2009 he will launch a highly successful series RuPaul’s drag racing.