While Will Smith Had His Fresh Prince Feuds, Sitcom Vet Tatyana Ali Says Karyn Parsons Is Still Like Her Big Sister Years Later

Fresh Prince of Bel-Air followers have loved the loving, on-screen bond among the many Banks household for twenty years now. While a few of these private connections had been highlighted extra prominently than others, the one between Hilary and Ashley Banks felt significantly genuine, regardless of the characters being polar opposites. That sisterly bond appears to have seeped into actual life as nicely, as actresses Tatyana Ali and Karyn Parsons apparently shared the identical sort of relationship off digicam. We’ve since discovered that Will Smith had his on-set feuds however, on the flip facet of that, Ali spoke about why Parsons has nonetheless like her massive sister even within the years because the sitcom ended.

It’s onerous to imagine that the 2 actresses have not really appearing alongside one another since 1996, which is when the Fresh Prince finale. Yet the connection remains to be sturdy and got here into play as Tatyana Ali competed on VH1’s RuPaul’s Secret Celebrity Drag Race as Chakra 7. During the competitors, Karyn Parsons rooted her TV little sister on by sending a candy video message. After competing on the present, Ali spoke with People about how supportive she and her co-star of one another’s tasks:

It’s so candy that they’ve managed to maintain their sisterly relationship going within the years since Fresh Prince ended. That sort of connection is refreshing, on condition that there may be stress and fractured relationships amongst some sitcom co-stars, who sometimes do not open up about stated strife till years later. Given how younger Tatyana Ali was when the traditional sitcom premiered in 1990, it’s comprehensible that she would’ve gravitated in direction of Karyn Parsons as a sister-like determine on the time. Clearly, she nonetheless appreciates her assist right now.

When it involves her current Drag Race gig, the Ashley Banks actress talked about that her co-star’s assist actually helped her, as she tried to really get out of her consolation zone for the primary time in her profession. The 43-year-old actress referred to her good friend’s assist as being “more an example of how close [he] are.” She felt that she “may belief sharing” such an “experimental” skilled expertise with Karyn Parsons.

While these former co-stars are nonetheless shut, most followers know not everybody on the NBC sitcom received alongside. Will Smith and OG Aunt Viv Janet Hubert notoriously had a feud that continued years after Hubert left the comedy sequence following Season 3 over contract points. Ali may recall the on-set tension between Smith and Hubert permeating the set earlier than her departure. Of course, after their emotional conversation in the course of the HBO Max reunion, the previous co-stars have patched issues up, with Hubert even revealing that they text back and forth regularly. For his half, Smith revealed that their conversation was impactful, because it helped him to heal in the course of the writing course of for his memoir, Will.

I’m simply glad the 2 are actually on good phrases like Tatyana Ali and Karyn Parsons and, now greater than ever, I’d prefer to see all of them work collectively once more. Maybe they’ll visitor star on Peacock’s Bel-Air, very similar to OG stars Daphne Maxwell-Reid and Vernee Watson-Johnson in Season 1. You can catch the Fresh Prince reimagining by getting a Peacock Premium subscription. You may watch each season of the unique present utilizing an HBO Max subscription.