The person I want to be is someone who protects you, not someone who unleashes dark on you. At least something good came out of ! Skip to content. Ellissa Bain. Have something to tell us about this article? And not only wasn't it a show of support, the pointed slam drastically morphed into a major dig at Will Smith , whom she historically blames for her ouster from the hit show.
Now this is a story all about how the feud got flipped, turned upside down and every which way :. Though it never cleaned up in the awards department, Fresh Prince was a huge NBC hit and is enjoyed in repeats to this day and was the vehicle that rocketed Will Smith to super-stardom.
Less than two months after the series finale, Independence Day opened in theaters and the rest is history. But in the fall of , season four premiered with a new Vivian Banks in the house—and while the lack of social media back in the day precluded the sort of conspiracy theories and immediate demand for an answer from the powers in charge of Fresh Prince , those things never happen for no reason.
Of course it wasn't unheard of, the ol' turn-a-blind-eye re-cast dating as far back as the Darrin Stephens switcheroo on Bewitched and beyond. Roseanne , which replaced Beckys and then switched them back! However, the climate under which Hubert left was apparently not hospitable enough for a comeback.
At the time, her exit was attributed to the age-old standby of creative differences. And that's certainly one way to put it. Smith told an Atlanta radio station in , mid-original-controversy, "I can say straight up that Janet Hubert wanted the show to be The Aunt Viv of Bel Air Show because I know she is going to dog me in the press. She has basically gone from a quarter of a million dollars a year to nothing.
She's mad now but she's been mad all along. She said once, I've been in the business for 10 years and this snotty-nosed punk comes along and gets a show. And he was correct in that Hubert wasn't just going to let it go. Presumably, however, he couldn't have predicted that anyone would still be talking about it more than 22 years later. In an interview with what later became Huffington Post's Black Voices section, Hubert said, "My departure was planned for a long time There will never be a reunion of the Fresh Prince.
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Email Address There was an error, please provide a valid email address. Thanks for signing up! Canada's unhinged housing market, captured in one chart. Vienna brothel incentivizes vaccination after losing 50 per cent of its clientele. Smith responded: "I have children. I lost everything — reputation, everything. And I understand you were able to move forward, but those words, calling a Black woman difficult in Hollywood is the kiss of death. It's the kiss of death, and it's hard enough being a dark-skinned Black woman in this business.
But I have felt it was necessary for us to finally move forward. Looking into her eyes he says, "I could not do a year celebration of this show and not celebrate you — celebrate your contribution to this show and celebrate your contribution to my life. I came here to resolve, 'cause it's time. The entire cast rejoice in their forgiveness when Hubert joins them on set.
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