You guys have such an amazing director with Morgan. I would've eaten it too.Īkira Akbar: I know it was sitting there looking good, so I ate it.Ĭoco Jones: It sure did, it had makeup on. Like one day, in real life, she'd be flipping it up.Īkira Akbar: You remember that one shrimp that I ate?Ĭoco Jones: Yeah you did eat that shrimp.Ĭoco Jones: She shouldn't have eaten it though. Yeah.Īkira Akbar: We really trying to get on it. Cause she has this cooking show that Akira and I are trying to get on. Olly Sholoton: And Coco for real be cooking. So anything fried I'm like you get me, girl. I probably would love to like her Southern dishes because I'm from the south. I couldn't even pick a recipe that I think would be my favorite. I'm like, man, can I just sit down and be served? Am I always giving waitress? But no, it's her passion. I feel like Hilary in Bel-Air, she's pretty much always in a kitchen. They get into some interesting situations as their dynamic grows.Ĭoco, how much of the cooking do you do, and out of all the dishes that you've tried, which one is your favorite?Ĭoco Jones: Oh my goodness. It's definitely a push and pulls type of relationship where I feel a lot of moms and daughters will relate to, not really understanding, but having that love, but also just feeling like they know what's best for their daughter, but Hilary is very much headstrong.
Her dad, she kind of figures out a way to like finesse into like letting her just do her thing, her relationship with Cassandra Freeman, who plays Aunt Viv. She's this CEO influencer, chef, boss, content creator and her mother doesn't really get that. She's kind of the rebel in a way because she's dropped out of college, she's doing her own thing. Can you talk to me about the different opinions Hilary has of her father and her mother and the different relationships they have and displayed throughout the show?Ĭoco Jones: I think Hilary, first of all, her relationship with her father, I will say she definitely gives princess vibes. I think a really heartbreaking journey, but, as a season goes on they learn to find their differences.Ībsolutely look, Coco, these characters feel so genuine. Will showing up and exceeding at fitting in doing the very thing that Carlton has never really been able to identify with, that touches this deeply insecure part of him. As a result, he's had to assimilate to his Bel-Air cohort. He's been told that he acts white or he talks to white or yada yada yada. In his mind, I also think that Carlton experiences a very fragile sense of blackness because he doesn't feel like he belongs to his people throughout his whole life. Olly Sholotan: I'd say Will coming into Bel-Air is definitely a challenge to Carlton's blackness as well as his masculinity. Can you talk to me about Carlton's relationship with Will in this version and also how Carlton kind of views his parents since Will is being accepted into the household? And the one that's affected, it seems like the most is Carlton. So as this show starts, the biggest difference is that Will is kind of forced to move to Bel-Air rather than it being a choice. I feel like we just dig into their journals and see what they're really about and what they're really going through.Ībsolutely. We really, really delve into when there is something deep and dark.Īkira Akbar: I want to do like expand on what you were saying with each of our characters. We have an hour, we're not limited by the show format. I think what's so beautiful about what we do with our version of the show is we explore those themes, but we go way deeper.
Obviously, with that, there's the format of the 30 minutes sitcom, and there are limitations on that. Olly Sholoton: I think what makes the original fresh prince so popular is it speaks to the black experience in a way that few other shows at the time did, and it explored these really real and relevant themes through comedy. Look, the first question I have for you is, the original series, what makes it so popular and stands up to the test of time to this day where everybody holds it in such reverence? Screen Rant: Thank you so much for your time. Related: Morgan Cooper Interview for Bel-Air
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