Thirty years after a sitcom starring a young rapper with no acting experience debuted on NBC, the cast of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air returned to the Banks mansion for a hilarious, emotional, and raw HBO Max reunion special.

Hubert hasn’t been shy over the years when it came to voicing her displeasure with Smith and company, as evidenced by the existence of this EW story: “All the times the original Aunt Viv slammed her Fresh Prince costars.”.

As mentioned above, Smith, already a Grammy winning rapper, had never acted before Fresh Prince, and that is why he took an interesting approach to learning his lines: he learned everyone’s.

But there was no video of Smith trying out for Will, which is understandable since the character was named Will Smith and the real Smith says producer Quincy Jones “steamrolled” him through the process.

“He says, ‘Here’s the deal: Right now, everybody who needs to say yes for this show is sitting out in that living room waiting for you.’ And I was like, ‘Give me 10 minutes.’” Smith obviously impressed since the deal was done that night.

Recalls his music partner and Fresh Prince costar DJ Jazzy Jeff: “We were on tour and had a day off and Will flew and came back and said, ‘I got a TV show.’”.

“We were able to share the experience, the real experience, and gave those writers our perspective,” says Ribeiro.

The Fresh Prince cast has reunited many times over the years, but never with Hubert.

In the past, the actress has slammed Smith for being an "egomaniac,” while he’s fired back with claims that Hubert wanted the show to be "The Aunt Viv of Bel-Air.".

During the special, Smith surprised even his castmates with the reveal that he sat down with Hubert for the first time in 27 years.

And, for me, it felt like I couldn’t celebrate 30 years of Fresh Prince without finding a way to celebrate Janet.” He then played their honest and raw conversation.

How do we heal that?” Smith says it would helpful for him to know her story.

For her, it was an abusive marriage, which the cast didn’t know about.

“During that time of her pregnancy, I wasn’t sensitive, I wasn’t perceptive, and now that I’ve had three kids I’ve learned some things that I did not know at the time and I would do things very differently,” admits Smith in a separate confessional to the camera.

This marks the first time that Hubert and Reid have ever met

“Seeing Daphne and Janet, my two moms, the two Aunt Vivs, come together," says Parsons, "seeing them meet for the first time and embrace was the most incredible thing." For his part, Smith says of the family healing, “I don’t want to be that guy

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