“You took it all away from me with your words,” says Hubert Will, who admitted that he “made the set very difficult” for his former costar.
After a rude rift between Janet Hubert and the cast of “The Fresh Prince Belf Bell-Air” 27 years ago when her show was replaced before the fourth season, the original Banks family has finally put their feud behind.
Hubert was replaced by Daphne Maxwell Reed after the third season of the devastating 90s sitcom, before star Will Smith claimed it was difficult to work with him in later years. Though he would also slam her in almost every interview, Smith extended the olive branch for a new 30-year reunion special that fell on Wednesday evening at HBO Max.
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During the Midway Hour and the fifteen-minute special – during which Smith recaptured Hubert with everyone else from the show, he will comment on how they never really talked “together” in public about what happened to Janet. “For me, it felt like I couldn’t celebrate the 30-year-old Fresh Prince without finding a way to celebrate Janet,” he explained, showing footage of a subsequent conversation he had with Hubert the day before.
Before the conversation began, Smith and Hubert both confessed in separate confessions that they had kept the same issues the day they came back.
“During that third season, when I got pregnant, a lot of things were going on in my life and in Will’s life as well. There was a little bit of friction because I was pregnant. Home life wasn’t good at all,” Hubert explained. “Now I wasn’t laughing, I was laughing, I was joking because there were things going on that no one knew about. The cast had no idea what was going on.”
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Smith admitted he was not “sensitive” to his situation. He told me, “I didn’t understand and now that I’ve had three kids, I’ve learned some things I didn’t know at the time and I’ll do things very differently.” “I can see why I made the set so difficult for Janet.”
She explained that she had been offered a “really bad deal” where she would only work for two months and two weeks and would not be able to work anywhere else. “It meant my salary was cut. I had a new baby and a husband who was out of work. I said no,” he said. “I did not accept their offer. I was never fired. This misunderstanding was always put there. I was trapped, what can I do.”
When it was decided to resume the role, Hubert said she was “deeply hurt,” .Nade“
Hubert and Smith greeted each other with a hug, as they admit how long it had been since they had been in the same room. Having said that the reunion was “tough” for him, Hubert began by asking him a question that had been on his mind for years.
“I only wanted to know one thing, why? Why so far? You guys went so far, I got so lost,” he said. “How do we heal?”
As Will told Hubert, he “doesn’t know your story,” she told him, “was mad,” before she gave details of what had happened in her life around the time she left the series.
“When I left the show I had this new kid and no one. The family rejected me, Hollywood rejected me, my family said you ruined our name and I’m not unprofessional on set.” “I just stopped talking to everyone because I don’t know who to trust, I was deported. They said you were the one who deported me. Because you will, you were a child. That. It was difficult. “
“You didn’t realize I was spending a lot at home. You didn’t know,” she said before claiming to have “married very abusively.”
Looking back – thanks to his own experience with children, marriage and divorce – Smith said “he can now see the level of pain and the level of conflict that you just had to show every day.”
“You took it all away from me with your words. Words can kill. I lost everything. Reputation, everything, Everything, “She continued.” I understand you’re capable of moving on, but you know those words, it’s hard to say black woman in Hollywood is a death kiss. It’s hard enough when you’re a dark-skinned black woman in this business. “
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With that being said, she said, now before she apologized for having “hit your piece” in the media for years, “we felt we finally needed to move on.”
“First of all, thank you for sharing it with me. I didn’t know what to do. When I look back now, it’s clear that you were having a hard time and I felt like you hated me.” “I couldn’t celebrate the 30th anniversary of this show and celebrate you. Celebrate your contribution to this show and celebrate your contribution to my life.”
He then told her that he hoped to be the person who could protect her going forward and “not someone who would let the dogs down on you.” He added, “You’re still my aunt Viv!”
After hinging her out one by one, Smith asked the rest of the cast if she would even start talking to him. They all said they would like it – as Reid, instead, declared that the two had never met before.
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This was followed by footage of Hubert reuniting with everyone on the cast, before finally embracing Reed – Karen Parsons (aka Hillary) said something that was “the most incredible thing”.
DJ Jazzy Jeff added – “It was an instant chill. It was a dream come true. It was a perfect circle moment,” said Tatiana Ali, witnessing their embrace. “My heart is really filled.”
Hubert said living with the rest of the cast is “unbelievable and wonderful,” before Smith said he hoped others would eventually bury the hatchet.
The full “Fresh Prince Belf Bel-Air” Reunion Special is now available on HBO Max.
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