Like, James Avery wouldn’t give me a damn inch. Everything I said, everything I did for James Avery was like nope, not good enough.” Avery demanded “absolute committed perfection” from his young co-star, so when it came time to shoot the scene together, “I’m messing up the lines because I want it so bad,” Smith recalled. Smith retold the story of that classic scene for the Rap Radar Podcast, saying, “James Avery was relentlessly on me to elevate. Lou abandoned him before, but Will, so caught up in the rush of having his dad back, brushes Uncle Phil aside, bristling with the jabs that Phil is not his real dad and that he’s jealous.īut as we’ve come to say, the best TV father figure came through when his nephew needed him the most - when the warnings came true. He even warns will that he shouldn’t get his hopes up. The two plan a cross-country trip together but Uncle Phil ( James Avery) being weary of it all. The episode is about Will’s father Lou ( Ben Vereen) returning to his son’s life after 14 years. Yes, it’s THAT episode where Will’s dad comes back into his life and it’s the episode where THE scene of the show and arguably the scene that convinced us Smith was a hell of an actor happened.
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