The star of "A Different World" tried to leave the show: "I did not like the way they treated the cast"

In a new interview, Jasmine Guy explained why she wanted to leave the sitcom in her first season.


A different world started as a fallout on The Cosby Show character Denise Huxtable, played by Lisa Bonet . But once he has undergone season 2 changes, Whitley Gilbert became the character in small groups and the heart of the show. It could have gone differently if the star Jasmine had had its way. As indicated by People ,, During an appearance on Talk about a red table with a lot of her A different world Co-Stars, the actor explained why she wanted to leave during the first season, going so far as to try to put her two-week advice. Read the rest to find out why Guy was angry enough to leave and what convinced him to stay.

Read this then: A different world The co-stars open onto the real "secret" relationship .

Guy tried to stop during season 1.

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Guy appeared on Talk about a red table With old co-stars Kadeem Hardison ,, Dawnn Lewis ,, Darryl M. Bell ,, Charnele Brown ,, Cree Summer ,, Glynn Turman ,, Ajai Sanders , and Karen Malina White . They were also joined by the director and the producer Debbie Allen . Jada Pinkett Smith , who hosts Talk about a red table , also appeared in the program during subsequent seasons, playing Lena James. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

Guy said she tried to leave the show very early. "I gave my two-week notice during the first season," she said. "I said to myself, I don't want to be in it anymore, and I didn't like the way they treated the cast. So, I went there, and I said:" Thank you very much for this opportunity, And I learned so much. '"

The producers did not understand why she was upset.

Jasmine Guy at the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards
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Guy explained that when she tried to stop, the Hauts-Us asked if something had happened to her, personally.

"They were probably like:" Okay, although something did you? I said: "Well, you know, I have the impression that Lisa Bonet is missed in front of the public." "Well, has it ever happened to you? I said," If it happens to him, it happens to me. You lack respect for the distribution. You lack respect Sinbad . It shouldn't happen to me. I felt like it happened to me. ""

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Her contract meant that she couldn't just stop.

Jasmine Guy signing autographs in 1990
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Guy did not realize that it was not an option for her to simply leave the show.

"I thought we could leave," she said. Hardison, who played his love Dwayne Wayne, laughed and added: "Haven't you read the small characters who said six years?"

The show underwent major changes from the start.

Jasmine Guy, Sinbad, and Lisa Bonet at the Comedy Central, TVLand, Nick and Nickelodeon Summer 2006 TCA Press Tour
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A different world was revised before season 2. Bonet and Marisa Tomei , who were the main characters of the first season, both left the show. Sinbad, one of the actors that the guy estimated was mistreated, was promoted as a main actor. Allen has joined the show as a producer to help the show to be a more precise representation of student life in a historically black college. Guy also played a more important role, because the relationship of Whitley and Dwayne has become a major objective of the show.

"The first season we were there, I was there to be the snotty [explanive] and he was there to be the awkward guy," said Guy During an interview in September to The breakfast club With hardison. "What Debbie has done is that she made our characters deeper and more realistic."

There were questions about the reasons why Bonet really left the show.

Hardison explained in their Club of breakfasts Interview that the main distribution was to sign for six years in case the show has been recovered for as many seasons. (It ended up lasting so long, from 1987 to 1993.) "I know, but I went to the producers and I tried to give my two -week notice," said Guy. "This first season, I tell you, it was eccentric, and I did not like the way they treated Lisa Bonet ... You lacked it in front of an audience, in front of me, I missed I too."

Guy and Hardison both claim that Bonet was discussed, including during the recordings. "I did not interfere on the set, but I said to myself:" Oh no. You don't treat it like that. "She had to hire security," said Guy.

The actors clarified that Bonet did not leave the show on these problems, but because it fell pregnant with girls Zoë Kravitz .

"They didn't want to show a pregnant black girl at university," said Hardison. "I thought it would have been an excellent tool and something that could inspire, because everything was inspiring, so why not? Because it is a real thing."


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