Fresh Prince of Bel-Aire was Will Smith’s first acting job, and he was the star and the producer. Since it was his first debut role, he memorized the whole script, as in everyone’s lines.
That seems admirable, right? That is until you see him mouthing the other actor’s lines as they were saying them.
If you go back to the first few episodes, you can see him do it. Because he didn’t know he was doing it until someone pointed it out to him in episode 6. Who was it? He told Tatyana Ali that it was Don Cheadle.
Side note: Can you believe that Smith has an Oscar and Cheadle does not?
Back to the story. He told his co-star he didn’t know he was doing it. And she responded that he used to do it to her a lot.
“Terrible. Terrible,” he told her. “There’s no reason we were successful. There’s no reason we should have been successful.”
But they were. And because of that, now people can look back and laugh at him for doing that.
On a positive note. At least, he was man enough to admit that.
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