![]() ![]() "But the words that Tatyana gave me, she made me feel like I am doing such a great job and she's really passing me the torch." "Because it's hard bringing a new dynamic to this iconic character," she explains. Despite already having Ali's blessing to mold Ashley into her own, Akbar admits acting as her version of the character in front of the "Fresh Prince" alum was still a nerve-wracking experience. It's been great."Īli and Akbar share a handful of scenes together in "Bel-Air" season two, as early as the first episode where we see the heartwarming teacher-student bond they form over their love of learning and Black literature. Let your light shine and just keep doing it. ![]() Cherry, connected the two via a phone call before they shared the screen together, during which she shared some words of wisdom with her new costar. Ali also shares that one of "Bel-Air"'s directors, Matthew A. Last year, before "Bel-Air" debuted, Ali passed the task of portraying Ashley onto Akbar, a conversation the latter previously described to POPSUGAR as "amazing." "One thing that she told me that was so iconic was, 'I had Ashley and now I'm giving her to you,'" Akbar recalled. "I loved the character, I loved the mentorship of the character, and I thought it got to the core of some of the things about Ashley that might still be the same from show to show in a really cool way." "Reading the scripts and realizing that so many of my scenes would be with Akira, new Ashley, I was just like, wow," Ali, who says she "was excited to be asked to jump in and play in some way," tells POPSUGAR. Instead, she embraced her new character as she would have in any other onscreen project, by asking questions like, "What is this role? What is she about?" While fans continue to compare the legacy of "The Fresh Prince" to its modern-day makeover (and sing its praises), Ali acknowledges that the two shows are, in many ways, "not the same." So she didn't approach her "Bel-Air" season two offer as a return to the familiar. "I thought it got to the core of some of the things about Ashley that might still be the same from show to show in a really cool way."
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