'Bel-Air's Jabari Banks and actress Jazlyn Martin — who performs Jackie — spoke with 'Distractify' about whats to come back of their onscreen romance in Season 2.
(*2*)While the Peacock collection has stayed true to its roots, Morgan Cooper’s Bel-Air is in contrast to another reboot you’ve observed. Much just like the original Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, the show facilities on Will Smith (Jabari Banks)— a stricken youngster from West Philadelphia who, in spite of his circumstances, has a brilliant long term ahead.
Then, a couple of guys who were up to no just right started making trouble in his neighborhood. But, in Bel-Air, that “one little battle” on the basketball court took an overly dark flip.
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After nearly catching a gun charge, Will used to be forced to start a brand new lifestyles along with his Uncle Phil (Adrian Holmes) and Aunt Viv (Cassandra Freeman).
Although adjusting to his new lifetime of luxurious used to be a problem in the beginning, Will temporarily struck up a romance with his classmate Lisa (Simone Joy Jones). But things were given difficult after Will’s new love pastime made her debut in Season 2.
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We talked to Jazlyn Martin — who performs Jackie — and Jabari about their on-screen romance and what’s to come back this season on Bel-Air. Here's what they mentioned!
Actress Jazlyn Martin plays Tyra Banks’s Jackie in Season 2 of ‘Bel-Air.’
In The Fresh Prince, Tyra Banks performed Jackie, who was offered to the sequence in Season 4. This time around, Jazlyn Martin stars because the around-the-way lady who catches Will's eye, and if the actress seems to be familiar — it’s as a result of she is!
Jazlyn most recently appeared in All American: Homecoming as Lisa. She additionally up to now guest-starred in an episode of This Is Us and played an extra within the Traci Ellis Ross movie The High Note.
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Will and Jackie first met at a basketball tournament in South LA. There, he also meets distinguished basketball scout, Doc Hightower, who just so happens to be Jackie’s uncle.“She has a particular tie to Doc that more or less lures Will to her,” Jabari told Distractify. “She brings one thing out of Will that no one's ever introduced out of him.”
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For Jazlyn's character, the feeling is mutual. "I think for Jackie, Will definitely brings her some type of comfort and safety," the actress explained. "He does have some roughness and knows a little bit about the struggle but also is very caring and kind. And I think she hasn't experienced that a lot from men."
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While Will and Lisa known as it quits within the premiere, that doesn’t mean issues are over between the two — and with Jackie within the combine, drama is certain to ensue.
Jabari Banks from 'Bel-Air' talks Will, Jackie, and Lisa’s love triangle: “Lisa is the soul [and] Jackie brings the spice.”
There’s some tea brewing in Bel-Air — and it comes to the affection triangle between Jackie, Will, and Lisa. Jazlyn teased that as issues heat up, Will and Lisa's connection is put to the take a look at. "I think they have a lot of love for each other," Jazlyn said of Lisa and Will's ongoing situationship. "But I don't think it's enough."
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She pointed out Lisa's lack of information relating to Will's struggles as a tender, Black guy from the inner town as opposed to how things are with Jackie, somebody he never has to explain himself to. "She just gets it," the actress added.
Jabari agreed that both Jackie and Lisa convey something to the table for Will. “Lisa is the soul, [and] Jackie brings the spice … once in a while you want each,” the actor teased, admitting that “you can’t have your cake and consume it too.”
With that said, now we have a feeling that Will will attempt to do just that.
New episodes of Bel-Air drop on Peacock every Thursday!
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