And then, when I saw that it was a dramatic retelling, I was like, “Wait a second, this is very interesting.” I remember for my audition, they had said, “This is not the ‘90s sitcom. Don’t touch that beat.” Alfonso killed this role. In hip-hop, when a rapper kills a beat, we say, “Don’t touch that beat anymore. When I first got the audition, I remember looking at it and being like, “A Fresh Prince reboot to play Carlton? I can’t do what Alfonso did.” I didn’t even put two and two together and realize that it was a dramatic reimagining. When the opportunity to do this show and play this character originally came your way, was there ever any hesitation on your part? The original Carlton, in the sitcom, was such a specific character, so did it ever concern you to take on this role, knowing that it would not be what people expected? And so, I guessed that they would probably find common ground, but I wasn’t really explicitly told that. And they’re both just young Black men, trying to find a place in the world. They’re both just looking for a place in the world. SHOLOTAN: What I think is so good about the show, as far as the writing goes, is that while I was never explicitly told, from the writing, I was immediately like, “Oh, I know what journey they have to go on.” Carlton and Will are presented as these two characters that seem completely diametrically opposed, but you see the similarities in them.
Since every time I would show up to work last season and it was like, “All right, now you have to yell at each other,” it was good not to have to do that as much, this season. With where they leave off at the end of Season 1, and where Season 2 picks up, they’re hand-in-hand, trying to take on Bel-Air together, and I think that’s gonna be really, really cool to watch, especially because I also love Jabari. But what I love about our show is that you get to see that happen in real time. I know when our show premiered, a lot of people were actually really put off by that because, in the original, Carlton and Will were best friends. It’s something that has been such a long time coming because it was such a staple of the original. OLLY SHOLOTAN: I would say the thing that I was most excited for was just Carlton and Will getting along, and the audience watching Carlton and Will get along. What were you most excited about, when it came to what the possibilities could be for Season 2?
In an interview with Insider, the Carlton actor said that his co-star Tyler Barnhardt, who was one of the white students in the locker room scene, felt uncomfortable saying the slur.Collider: Your character has already had such a journey of growth, after everything that Carlton did and went through with Season 1. After Smith berates them, Carlton comes to their defense and in the following scene says that his cousin is "flipping out" over a word. The song they were singing, a viral Bobby Shmurda song from 2014 which inspired the vine "Shmoney Dance" trend, contained the N-word and the group could all be heard saying the derogatory term that has been used to insult the Black community. In the first episode, Carlton has a confrontation with the series' protagonist, the fictional Will Smith (Jabari Banks), after Smith stumbles on his cousin dancing and rapping in a locker room with a group of white students. Sholotan plays Carlton in the Peacock reboot that reimagines "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" as a drama. "Bel-Air" star Olly Sholotan told Insider that one of his co-stars was reluctant to film a scene in the first episode where a group of white students sings a song containing a racial slur. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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