Character. Lou is the deadbeat biological father of Will Smith and the ex-husband of Vy. Lou abandoned his family (Will and Viola "Vy" Smith) when Will was five years old and explains his motives for leaving by saying he was scared to be a father and started to feel trapped.
Neither Viv nor Phil thinks it's a good idea, and they discourage her from doing so. Lou then shows up in the final episode of season one, and it's revealed that he didn't actually abandon his family — he was serving time in prison and didn't want Will to see him behind bars.
In his self-titled 2021 memoir, Will, the actor revealed that his late father often turned to alcohol and aggression, usually directed toward him and his mother. “Will was punished first because he's older,” Will's younger brother, Harry, told PEOPLE in 1996.
Will Smith's character was actually supposed to brush off the whole thing, but Will's father actually had left him when he was younger and he just fell apart on the set and the hug at the end was from one actor to another, not one character to another.
Papa's Got A Brand New Excuse is the 24th episode of Season 4. It originally aired on May 9, 1994. It was written by David Zuckerman and Bill Boulware, and directed by Shelley Jensen.
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Why was Will's dad in jail?
He then dropped out of school by 19 and was later arrested for car theft. At some point, he met Vy, who he had a child with. However, Lou would only get to know Will for the first few years of his life, as he would be sentenced to 10 years in prison for assault and robbery of an old man who supposedly owed him money.
According to Celebrity Net Worth, Will Smith's net worth is $350 million as of 2023. These earnings are thanks to an entertainment career spanning over three decades, from his work as a rapper to his many roles as an actor and producer behind the scenes.
Smith. The television sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, which began in 1990, was loosely based on Smith's real-life persona. It ran on NBC for six successful seasons, ending at the star's request, and during its run Smith garnered two Golden Globe Award nominations and served as an executive…
Sheree Zampino was married to Will Smith for three years, and the two share one son, Trey Smith. Both went on to marry other people — Smith tied the knot with actress Jada Pinkett Smith in December 1997, while Zampino married former NFL player Terrell Fletcher in 2007 (although they divorced in 2014).
Did Will Smith have a relationship with his father?
Early in the book, Smith sets up the complicated relationship he had with his father William Carroll Smith Sr., who with his mother Caroline Bright, raised Smith and his three siblings in Philadelphia. "My father was violent, but he was also at every game, play, and recital.
During the two-and-a-half-hour interview in the podcast, she addressed her relationship with Tupac, claiming that although they were kindred spirits, they had no physical nor sexual chemistry arguing that when she dared him to kiss her, they both had an 'Eew' moment.
While playing street basketball, Will misses a shot and the ball hits a group of gang members. After hearing about the subsequent fight with them he got into, his mother sends him to live with his wealthy aunt and uncle (Vivian and Phillip Banks) in Bel-Air.
With that in mind, Smith saw six seasons as enough, and was content to put the series to bed. So The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air wasn't canceled, its lead star made the decision to end it, similarly to Jerry Seinfeld with Seinfeld and Jim Parsons with The Big Bang Theory.
Next, like most shows, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was filmed on a specially-designed set. Therefore, the living room, kitchen, pool house, and all the other rooms seen on the show weren't real. But don't worry, as the listing shows, the estate's actual interiors are nothing to bag on.
Fans of the show have long believed that Smith improvised that final scene in which his character builds to an emotional crescendo, loudly proclaiming all the milestones he got through without Lou, but “every word was written by Bill and I,” Zuckerman said.
Will and Jada's enormous Calabasas compound is worth a reported $US42 million (AUD $56 million) and took a whopping seven years to complete – construction began in 2003 and finished up in 2010. The property is so massive at 150 acres that it has its own post code, according to Architectural Digest.
Noah confirmed that Will is in love with his best friend Mike Wheeler, played by Finn Wolfhard, but doesn't want to hurt Eleven's feelings by confessing it. Noah also said that he is hoping for Will to have a coming-out scene in the fifth and last season of the Netflix show. We're now on WhatsApp.
In season four, a new aspect of Will emerged more fully; the teenager from Hawkins appeared to have a crush on his friend Mike Wheeler (Finn Wolfhard), and now Noah is confirming that Will is indeed gay and in love with Mike.
Mike is deeply concerned for Eleven's safety at that juncture, making his brain laser-focused on nothing else. With that in mind, his non-reaction to Will's crying is fairly understandable.
