Next Big Thing: ‘Bel-Air’ Star Jabari Banks on How He’s Putting a “Fresh” Spin on an Iconic Namesake

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The 23-year-old star also discusses the 'meta' experience of stepping into his character Will Smith's shoes and how Peacock's dramatized reboot will explore race and class differently than 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.'

The actor says the reboot series reframes Will’s arrival to the Banks’ mansion and how his own Black experience relates to theirs. “Sometimes people see it as you get a little bit of money and you’re losing your Blackness,” he says. “That’s kind of how the first show played in a comedic way. For this, it was, let’s start opening up those conversations.”

Growing up in the city, playing baseball, football, soccer and basketball as a kid, Banks made the pivot into acting during 11th grade. It was something he’d always longed to do, despite having few resources around him. Returning to Philadelphia years later to film the show’s pilot was a “meta” experience for the young actor, who had just a year earlier been working in Temecula, California, in a factory job his mother had found for him.

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