I love The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. I've been watching a lot of it since it's been aired on Sony Entertainment. Will is hilarious and the show has a feel good vibe. However, some episodes do leave me feeling sad because the show deals with unpleasant issues. Like the one episode when Carlton accidentally takes stimulants from Will's locker and almost dies. That was not nice. Now I should give you context about the video you're about to watch. It's one of those sad episodes. Will's dad turns up in this episode after abandoning him when he was young. They bond and are supposed to be going on a camping trip. In the start of this video, the dad is in the process of leaving Will without telling him. Will Smith helped co-write the script for this scene. He was drawing from personal experience because his dad had left when he was a baby and when he became famous because of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air he turned up like nothing had happened. At 2:04 Will goes off script, so everything that happens after that is real. He was supposed to play it off and walk off but then he carried on. This performance perhaps formed the fundamental core of Will Smith's acting career because he realised that not everything has to be scripted and he could draw on emotions to make things more real.
