While there’s no Full House remake focusing on the tragic death of Danny Tanner’s wife, and Tim Allen has yet to produce a revisionist take on the life of Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor, at least one beloved ‘90s sitcom has inspired an acclaimed streaming drama.
Bel-Air tells a story all about how Will Smith’s life got flipped turned upside down, not unlike in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. But this version is clearly far more serious. There are far higher stakes, no laugh track and as far as we can tell, Tom Jones isn’t Carlton’s guardian angel.
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Bel-Air, which is set to come to an end with its upcoming fourth season, has invited a number of OG Fresh Prince cast members to cameo on the show, including Joseph Marcell, who played Geoffrey the butler, Tatyana Ali, who played Will’s cousin Ashley, and Daphne Maxwell Reid, who played Aunt Viv 2.0.
Now it turns out that Bel-Air Season Four will also feature Janet Hubert, aka the original Aunt Viv. Per Entertainment Weekly, Hubert will play a wise woman who meets Hilary (Coco Jones) and becomes instrumental to the Banks family.
Hubert’s casting is especially notable given the circumstances of her departure from the original Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. The actress claimed that she had been forced out of the show by the non-fictional Will Smith, publicly calling him an “asshole.” And Smith told reporters that “Janet Hubert wanted the show to be The Aunt Viv of Bel-Air show,” adding that “no matter what, to her, I’m just the Anti-Christ.”
But then, in one of the few good things to come out of 2020, HBO Max released The Fresh Prince Reunion, in which Smith and Hubert actually reconnected after nearly 30 years of criticizing each other in the press. Hubert and Reid even met for the first time — thankfully, the two Aunt Vivs hugging each other didn’t collapse the space-time continuum.
More recently, Smith said of Hubert’s dismissal, “I made a horrible error and misjudgment of her value and power and beauty to the show,” adding, “I horribly underestimated what she was for me at that point in my life.”
While this will in no way correct her unjust ousting back in 1993, it’s about time that the Smith-produced reboot brought Hubert back to the Fresh Prince-verse.
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