"Always say yes," Smith recommends in the YouTube video.
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"So fail early, fail often, fail forward."Īnd, of course, don't be afraid to put yourself out there, even if it means potentially embarrassing yourself in front of a room full of famous people. When Will finds out that Hilary has dropped out of college without telling her parents, he blackmails her into doing whatever he. "Failure actually helps you to recognize the areas where you need to evolve," Smith notes in an Instagram story from earlier this year. Smith gained widespread fame as the rapper The Fresh Prince, and with that. "That's the story of how I became the Prince of Bel-Air," Smith says. Will Smith only agreed to star in the show because he was in serious debt to the IRS. Oh that, also the episode where Carlton gets overwhelmed and becomes hooked on speed. As Smith tells it, Jones, who went on to become the executive producer of the show, had lawyers in attendance write up a contract right then and there. For as much praise as The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air gets for its 'How come he dont he want me' scene, I feel like Carlton carrying a gun after Will is shot is just as good. Medina took Smith to a party at Quincy Jones' house, where Smith performed an impromptu 10-minute audition for the part of the Fresh Prince in front a room full of actors, artists, celebrities and politicians.
Reluctantly, he obliged, and it was there, he says, that he met Benny Medina, "the real-life Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" - although Medina went from Watts, California, to Beverly Hills.
Tired of seeing Smith mope, his girlfriend at the time talked him into hanging out on the set of "The Arsenio Hall Show" in hopes that he'd find an opportunity that would boost his career. In the first-season episode Homeboy, Sweet Homeboy, when Wills best friend from Philly (Don Cheadle) comes to visit, he gets into a fight with Aunt Viv (.