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The Reasons Alfonso Ribeiro Thinks A ‘Fresh Prince’ Reboot Wouldn’t Be It—Including James Avery’s Passing

<p>Reboot this&comma; reboot that—it seems as though we’re hearing more and more about reboots every day&excl; Sometimes a reboot is necessary&comma; other times we viewers should just let things be great as they were&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>That being said&comma; the 90s hit show The &num;FreshPrinceOfBelAir is one reboot people want to know will happen&comma; or not&period; &num;AlfonsoRibeiro&comma; who played &num;CarltonBanks&comma; sat down with <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;people&period;com&sol;tv&sol;alfonso-ribeiro-fresh-prince-reboot-unlikely&sol;"><strong>PEOPLE<&sol;strong><&sol;a> and basically laid out all the reasons he thinks a &num;FreshPrince reboot won’t necessarily work today&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He joked that&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Will ain’t coming back&excl; Listen&comma; you know how much money they <i>don’t<&sol;i> have to get Will back&quest;&period;&period;That’s the reality&period;” Alfonso also made a good point in saying&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Do we really want to see Will and Carlton in their 40s and 50s&quest;&period;&period;I think people <i>think<&sol;i> they want to see that&comma; but I don’t think people really want to see that&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>To add&comma; Alfonso said it’s &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;impossible” to have a reboot without &num;JamesAvery&comma; aka &num;UnclePhill as he was the most important character on the show&period; His reasoning would probably hit home with a lot of people&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Without him&comma; everything that Will and Carlton did would mean nothing — it’s a bunch of kids acting stupid&comma;” he said&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;There had to be jeopardy&comma; and the way Uncle Phil was going to handle it was the other side of making what Will and Carlton did work&period; Without him&comma; there is no <em>The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air<&sol;em>&period; I’m sure a &lbrack;reboot&rsqb; could happen&comma; but I continue to say I think it’s very unlikely&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Considering Alfonso&&num;8217&semi;s reasoning&&num;8211&semi;do y&&num;8217&semi;all still want a Fresh Prince of Bel-Air reboot&quest; 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