Coco Jones Reveals Her Favorite 'Fresh Prince' Character & What It Was Like Meeting Will Smith For the First Time

Coco Jones Reveals Her Favorite 'Fresh Prince' Character & What It Was Like Meeting Will Smith For the First Time

Coco Jones is opening up about The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and who her favorite character was.

The 24-year-old singer and actress, who portrays Hilary Banks in the new Peacock series Bel-Air, dished about the original comedy on The Wayne Ayers Podcast.

See what she shared inside…

On who her favorite character was on the original show, Coco said, “Honestly, okay so, of course Hilary, I loved because she was such a fashionista and I wanted to look like her. I wanted to dress like her, I wanted to come with them cute ‘fits.”

“But man, Will is just so hilarious, and I feel like I’m super goofy in a way, so I feel like I just gravitate [to him],” she added. “When he was dancing with Ashley and she didn’t know he was dancing behind her. I was like, ‘That is so something I would do to my siblings, just to be goofy.’”

Coco then dished on what it was like when she met Will Smith for the first time.

“Oh my god, yeah, it was crazy. It’s such a weird feeling to be watching somebody and see them on these big screens, and then to see them in person and be like, okay hello, I’ll just shake your hand then, human being. Okay, sure,” she shared. “He’s so larger than life and he’s so captivating, you know? It makes you realize why he is who he is. You can’t help but like be interested in whatever he has to say.”

“And [he's] so inspiring. Like the way he just dapped us up and told us how impressed he was with everything, it was like, ‘Okay, you’re definitely Will Smith, like this was definitely your show and you created history, but thank you so much for the approval, thank you.”

Check out her whole interview on The Wayne Ayers Podcast on Apple Podcasts!

ICYMI: See what Coco shared about making Hilary Banks her own in Bel-Air.

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