A whole new world for actress Naomi
Will on red carpet at premiere with a model of the Genie
acter. When that dawned on me, I could basically do a similar thing with my Fresh Prince persona and just pour that persona into the character. “So when I found that ‘in’ I was comfortable on both fronts.”
Will was 22 when he landed the part in Fresh Prince after he and his friend DJ Jazzy Jeff had launched a music career, and meeting when Jazzy was DJ-ing a party and needed a “hype man”.
After Fresh Prince’s success, a string of blockbuster movies followed, including Independence Day in 1996, and Men in Black a year later.
He was nominated for Oscars for Ali in 2001 and The Pursuit of Happyness in 2006.
Will says he has gone back to his
Trey, Jaden, Jada and Will having a laugh at the premiere of Aladdin in Hollywood on Monday SHE’s the little girl who started singing at her local church, but became a huge film star. It may sound like a fairytale, but this is the story of Brit actress Naomi Scott who stars as Princess Jasmine.
Naomi, 26, started singing with the band at Bridge Church in Woodford. North East London, where her parents Usha and Christopher were pastors. Naomi’s first major US role came courtesy of movie royalty Steven Spielberg in his dystopian sci-fi TV drama Terra Nova.
She married her childhood sweetheart, Ipswich Town footballer Jordan Spence. They had originally met at her parents’ church.
Naomi is now one of Hollywood’s most in-demand actresses playing the Pink Ranger in the Power Rangers movie. She has been cast as one of Charlie’s Angels in the movie reboot alongside Kristen Stewart and Ella Balinska.