When he got the call to audition for Bel-Air, Adrian Holmes was worried. Even with three separate scenes to prepare for an adaptation premiering decades after an iconic original 1990s sitcom, he knew he didn’t cut the typical Uncle Phil figure.
In reality, the 47-year-old looked more like a football linebacker than the barrel-chested, strict-but-loving father figure of the original Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
And with his Welsh Canadian background, he seemed to share even less with the West Philadelphia — or even western L.A. — tale of a teen transported from one coast — and class — of the United States to its opposite.
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