The fame of Will Smith has made his name known throughout the world, this because the 52-year-old actor has starred in major productions, but only in one of them did he use his real name for his character, and he did so in the 90s comedy ‘The Prince of rap’.
It is not very common for the actor and the character to have the same name, however, in ‘The Prince of Rap’, both were called ‘Will Smith‘, and this, apparently, was not a decision made by the producers of the show, but it was actually the artist himself who decided to keep his name.
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It was in an interview conducted in the ‘Graham Norton Show‘, one of the most famous talk shows in Great Britain, where the renowned actor revealed why he made the decision to share his first and last name with the character from the iconic series of the nineties.
Will Smith y Carlton Banks
The artist shared that when they began to record ‘The Prince of Rap’, he and Alfonso Ribeiro, actor who gave life to Carlton in the 6 seasons of the series, were looking for names for the characters. It was Ribeiro who told him to call his character ‘Will Smith’.
“It’s funny because Alfonso Ribeiro, who plays Carlton … When we started the show, we were trying to come up with names for the characters. And we were going through it and we’re talking about it. And Alfonso drew me Apart, he said, ‘Man, let me go. tell you something. ‘He said,’ Whatever your character’s name is, people will call you that for the rest of your life ‘… “Will Smith commented.
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Alfonso Ribeiro was right in what he anticipated in the early nineties, since to date fans identify Will Smith for his role in ‘The Prince of Rap’, and when they address him, they do so by calling him by his real name , and this, to a large extent, is thanks to the name he chose for his character.
It is worth mentioning that, curiously, the case of Alfonso Ribeiro is very different, because to date most of the fans of this iconic 90s series from Warner Bros, recognize the actor as Carlton, the name of his character in ‘The Prince of Rap’.
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