Will Smith: Fresh Prince to Fallen King | The Pursuit of Happyness | 127
Even the Rich
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🗓️ 9 August 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Things are finally falling into place for the Fresh Prince. With a hit new sitcom and budding movie career, life is looking up. But when he meets the woman of his dreams, Will has to make sure his need for control doesn’t derail the love of his life.
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| 0:00.0 | Wundery Plus subscribers can |
| 0:01.8 | convince the newest season of even the rich before anyone else. |
| 0:04.4 | Join Wundery Plus in the Wundery App or on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:08.0 | A quick heads up. |
| 0:09.2 | We are going to swear like Will Smith at the Oscars. |
| 0:12.8 | So keep our names out your fucking mouths. |
| 0:17.0 | And also like just please be advised. It's 1990 and |
| 0:26.0 | 1990 and 21 year old Will Smith is back on stage. |
| 0:31.0 | He's starring in a new NBC pilot for a comedy called The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. |
| 0:37.0 | The show hasn't been officially greenlit yet, but it's got serious heat and real pedigree. |
| 0:44.0 | Mega Mogul Quincy Jones himself is the executive producer. |
| 0:49.0 | He actually personally selected Will for the role. to Will that all adds up to a ton of |
| 0:56.2 | crippling anxiety and pressure. Will is determined not to squander this opportunity. What happened with his album in the |
| 1:05.2 | Bahamas, the IRS trouble, shit's been messy. Yeah, you mean like fleeing |
| 1:10.4 | Philly with a bag of cash from your drug dealer friends? |
| 1:14.0 | Exactly. |
| 1:15.4 | And Wills decided that kind of thing will never happen ever again. |
| 1:21.6 | And aside from getting his career back on track, Wheel needs money to keep the IRS at |
| 1:26.6 | bay. Fast. His whole future is writing on him acting the shit out of this role. |
| 1:34.3 | Not that he actually has to act that much. |
| 1:36.6 | The show was about a young man from Philly |
| 1:39.2 | who's sent to live with his rich relatives in Super Gam Belair. And in 1990, that means Will's one-strapping his |
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