Regina Hicks was a PA on A Different World. Waithe: Theres definitely talk about We only want to see happy Black people or We dont want to see trauma in our entertainment, but the truth is I got both with A Different World, and I think I turned out okay. Then they got into a fight with them and they all got thrown into jail together. We cast her as somebodys girlfriend and it was a one-shot deal. Allen: One of the first things I did was take everybodys fake nails and hair weaves off to make them a little more natural. By season six, Freddie, Dwayne, Kimberly, Ron, and Whitley had all graduated from Hillman, and a new group of students joined the cast in main and recurring roles. Thats what set me on the path to create Living Single. All Rights Reserved. The audience decides what really lives with them, what really sticks with them.. And there were a few people that didnt know what it meant, which was kind of cool, you know? She had an extensive stage career, and was one of theNEC's original members. Great. Within 10 days I had booked the costar spot and written the theme song. Why arent we on the cover of anything? They honored their word, but they werent too happy about it. Sony Pictures Classics/courtesy Everett Collection, 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved, Mark Sheehan, guitarist of the Script, dead at 46, Al Jaffee dead at 102: Mad magazine cartoonist created popular Fold-In, Emmy winner and As The World Turns star dead at 89. So [the older cast members] took it upon ourselves to [say] buy a house, investwe tried to plant those kinds of seeds. We changed the world with that show, Allen says. Bell: Lisa was on The Cosby Show, so she was accustomed to being in the atmosphere of a juggernaut. That didnt pan out, though. I said, I cant cheat them. I wanted to do movies. She was a big fan of A Different World, and she said, Debbie, you gotta put me on the show, I want to be on the show. I was like, Patti, its done. I think it was Susan who said were going to make her Dwayne Waynes mama. If I didnt do well on a test or if I got in trouble at school, I remember my mom saying You aint going to be able to watch A Different World if you keep acting up.. Actress Mary Alice, who starred in shows like A Different World and All My Children, has died, Variety reports. Diem Brown died in November after a long struggle with cancer, as documented on MTV. The audition took place in an office packed with writers, producers, and NBC executives. Previously he was hospitalized in December of 2012 for pneumonia. Christopher Hibler. They said, Youre one of the central characters on this show. Theres an age gap between the two of us, so she was younger than me. However, as Playbill notes, O'Neal's screen resume doesn't encompass the entirety of his career. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. We bounce well off of each other, so when the writers saw that, they started putting it into the script. So I didnt see any of the episodes for a decade or so, [until] they started streaming and I was like, Let me check these out.. This didnt exist before. Romantic relationships abounded on the show, to mixed reactions from the actors who were involved. I thought everything was just over. Robert Guillaume may have only appeared on three episodes of "A Different World," but he holds the distinction of playing two different characters: Dean Winston and Professor Murphy. Hardison: She was like, Lets flip it. the fact that the show was made in the late 1980s and early 1990s means that some members of its illustrious cast are no . didnt have a studio audience.. Clockwise from left: Courtesy of Darryl Bell; CARSEY-WERNER CO./NBC/ ALAMY; Everett Collection; NNC/Everett Collection. Bell: Lisa doesnt get enough credit for A Different World. Bell: My character was talking to Whitley and he had to turn to her and say, I knew it could be done. When it came time for me to say it, I tried to stretch that line out as long as I could. Living Single is also where she met Reggie Rock Bythewood. Youre there to entertain, but you can also heal. Its not deep, its messy and crazy.. After "A Different World" sang its swan song in 1993, Myers went on to have a prolific career in movies and TV shows alike, appearing in films including "Volcano," "Tin Cup," "How Stella Got her Groove Back," and "The Wedding Planner." A Different World cast list, including photos of the actors when available. By Emily Reuben / Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 5:24 am EST. WHAT DO I HAVE TO LOSE? Theres a picture of myself, Kadeem, Eddie Murphy, and Magic Johnson at a party that was in People magazine. Fales-Hill: The first time Diahann came to do the show, she gathered everybody, and she said that when she had started on a soundstage in Los Angeles, there was absolutely no one of color except for her. Young people who gain fame, they [can] get carried away. Susan Fales-Hill hired Yvette Lee Bowser, who would then go on to create Living Single. Sinbad: I was doing a tour with Luther Vandross and Anita Baker, I was hosting Showtime at the Apollo, and I was doing A Different World. The previous film, once declared a disaster, served as a cautionary tale for the new animated hitand has even been reclaimed by some as a cult classic. My name being Lena, and me having a father that was sort of in and out of my life and had demons himself, it was such a reflection. In films, she appeared in Malcolm X, The Inkwell, Down in the Delta, Beat Street, To Sleep With Anger, Awakenings, The Bonfire of the Vanities and Sunshine State, among many others. It was a safe space for us, and in some ways created a form of therapy. I just cant personally imagine making a choice like that. And then after Brandon, it was Warren Littlefield. "A Different World" features a great many actors, plenty of whom are still working in the industry. He leaves through Whitleys window and rumors start. We made her a lawyer and [Cree] hated it. Clockwise from bottom left: Carsey-Werner Co/Everett Collection; Courtesy of Darryl Bell; Carsey-Werner Co./Everett Collection; CARSEY-WERNER CO./NBC/ ALAMY; NBC/Everett Collection. 12 Actors From LIVING SINGLE Who Have DIED. Everyone thought it was so funny. Sadly, some of these stars have passed away in the intervening years. Bowser: I didnt leave the show to go to Hangin With Mr. Cooper, but having been there from the very beginning, I just felt like emotionally and creatively, it was time for me to go. Though his time on "A Different World"was relatively short, Ross more than made up for it on other fronts. Waithe: The people that walked on that set have touched or impacted or lifted up others in a way that a lot of people dont even get to see. As The New York Times notes, Cash had amassed an impressive rsum on multiple fronts by the time she arrived on the show. Stop it right now. It was not nice. She had auditioned for the role of Jaleesa during the first round of casting and was called back when the show decided to add more characters. Whitley reminded me of a lot of the women that I grew up with in Cincinnati and in Jack and Jill, and women who attended Hampton. In a way, Ted Ross was part of "A Different World" before the show even existed. Then they would make changes and come back to us. We had to look at each other one day and say, Wait a minute, what is happening here? We did everything we could to sabotage it. Meg Ryan was initially cast as Maggie but decided to pursue her film career; Marisa Tomei took her place. Allen: Jada Pinkett auditioned for the young girl with AIDS in season 4. His grand gesture of interrupting the wedding stayed in the script, though. Something told me to stop and go over, so I did. Kadeem went in first and you could hear the laughing outside in the hallway while the rest of us were waiting. Shows, and particularly Black shows, didnt really have an enormous budget, so I always had to be creative with Whitley to make her wardrobe look opulent. That was an episode that dealt with colorism, and I remember after our first table reading we had a two-hour conversation because everyone had their own story of being otherized because of the color of their skin, whether it was considered too light or too dark or whatever. Stop. In 1992, she won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for Ill Fly Away., Her other movie credits include Malcolm X, The Inkwell, Down in the Delta, Beat Street, To Sleep With Anger, Awakenings, The Bonfire of the Vanities and Sunshine State.. Guillaume was likely best known for playingFrederick Douglasson the ABC miniseries "North and South," and BensonDuBois on the same network's soap opera sitcom, "Soap." A Different World aired from 1987 to 1993 and Meyers was also known for his roles on The Wedding Planner, . He died on September 13. During one scene in particular, he was struggling. And I liked that math was his thing because it was my thing until they put letters in it. Devine: One day I came to work and my whole apartment was gone. I got to find a new house. I moved out to Burbank, but that was crazy because I was the Black guy with the sports car and the cops would follow me home and people would complain about my music when I didnt even have shit plugged in. Where did she come from? A Different World really altered the molecules in my soul and my destiny. He took home 10 NAACP Image Awards and two Daytime Emmy awards for this mammoth performance (via IMDb). Hardison: I thought, This thing might run six or eight weeks, then theyll cancel it and then I can go on to being a movie star, which is what I wanted to be. Eventually, "A Different World" grew into its own, glorious thing. I pitched the idea for episode four, Those Who CantTutor. Dwayne is tutoring Denise and gets stuck in the dorm. The 92-year old icon died on May 9, 2010 in New York City (per The New York Times). We were under a microscope. The theme song was sung by Phoebe Snow for season one, Aretha Franklin for seasons two through five, and Boyz II Men for season 6. Fales-Hill: Im not somebody who beats her chest about oppression, but when you see the way certain white shows at the same time frame were assessed versus the way we were assessed, it had everything to do with color. David Alan Grier Always Knew He Could Do It All. Glynn Turman (Colonel Taylor): I was on the road with a play called Im Not Rappaport. Six years is a nice, good run [but] I didnt like how it ended. In the episode, Rudy Huxtable visits Denise at Hillman and becomes enamored with Whitley. Born Mary Alice Smith in Indianola, Miss., she pursued acting at a very early age, starting her stage career in her hometown. Soon after, Bell accepted an offer to be Keshia Knight Pulliams stand-in for an episode she was appearing in. I just thought we had done so much stuff that was grounded in reality, and this was a complete leap. That little moment at the very end where Freddie says to Dwayne, Thank you for being my friendsomething about that just fucking tears me up. Its all in the middle of the wedding. Emmy-winning actress Mary Alice, known for her roles as Leticia "Lettie" Bostic on NBC's "A Different World" and as Effie Williams in the 1976 musical drama "Sparkle ," died Wednesday in New. Lewis: The supporting actors that came through our show were just insane. Bowser: Applications to college, and HBCUs in particular, spiked exponentially as the result of the show. Then it happened over and over. Join Vanity Fair to receive full access to VF.com and the complete online archive now. I took notes, I took lunch orders, I ran errands, I babysat for peoples kids, I made posters; when Whitley ran for dorm monitor, thats my handwriting on the posters. Guy: I felt like Lisa was diminished in her ability to look natural. There were some things that were really beautiful that Whitley wore. She was found dead Wednesday. Almost 30 years after that final episode, Bowser, Allen, Hardison, Guy, Bell, Summer, Sinbad, Susan Fales-Hill, Dawnn Lewis, and others recall the stories of A Different World in their own words. Lewis: When they wrote the episode of us not getting married, we were like, Whew, we dodged a bullet. But then they had me marry Colonel Taylor. Bell: [The cast] was in Detroit on our way to do an interview at a radio station, and this woman saw us in the street and lost it. Bell: One of my favorite nights was the night that Magic Johnson broke the all-time assist record. I felt a plantation mentality dictating to us for the first time, because there was no reason for that, other than we had a Black show and [Fox] had a Black show. I kept going and I had the car phone at the time, so I called Glynn Turmans wife, whos a Realtor. Among the most memorable episodes were two consecutive shows that culminated with Whitley and Dwayne getting married, during what was initially Whitleys wedding to Byron Douglas III, played by Joe Morton. And I love that episode so much because of the healthy, platonic relationship between Dwayne and Freddie. The amount of press and paparazzi that hounded and followed themthey were 20-year-old kids. Pitting them against one another, you dont have to do much. 192 views, 0 likes, 2 loves, 13 comments, 1 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from First United Methodist Church of Allen: Roots and Fruits - Wk1 (Psalm. 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Bell: There were a lot of people who wanted to say, Yeah, youre just [successful] because youre in the time slot behind The Cosby Show. They didnt want to give us credit for being as good as we were. Hardison: The number one episode for me is easily Cats in the Cradle, when Dwayne and Ron go to a football game and these white dudes spray-painted the N-word on Rons car. Dawnn Lewis (Jaleesa Vinson): I had just finished the tour of a Broadway show, The Tap Dance Kid, with Hinton Battle, Harold Nicholas, and Dul Hill. She achieved further fame asthe conniving Dominique Deveraux on the popular ABC soaps "Dynasty" and "The Colbys.". [She] taught you so much because she wasnt really a trained actress. All rights reserved. I mean, the list just went on and on and on. 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I auditioned and then I got a call from Darryl. During her time on "A Different World," Carroll received her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Tonia McDonald of Myers' nonprofit, Global Business. Bell: Think of all the other shows when theyre ending, its like they have all of these countdowns to the final episode. Kadeem Hardison (Dwayne Wayne): I had just finished filming School Daze [with Jasmine Guy and Darryl M. Bell], and Id come to L.A. to visit some friends. Neither Hardison or Guy thought the Graduate*esque story was a good idea. ". Fales-Hill: There were a lot of Black performers, especially of a certain generation, who wanted to be on the show because they loved what it was saying and what it was doing. Yvette Lee Bowser (writer and producer): I didnt have aspirations to write for television, but in watching The Cosby Show I felt like there was an opportunity for a voice like mine and a life experience like mine. Tisha Campbell played the young girl who had been infected with AIDS, which was also the first role on the show Jada Pinkett auditioned for. To me, Benson was the revenge for all those stereotyped guys who looked like Benson in the '40s and '50s [movies] and had to keep their mouths shut.". They were like, Okay, my man, do you want to shorten that up?, Bowser: It wasnt the best line reading, but we loved him and were like, Weve got to find something for Darryl to do.. That was it. Hardison: I live for the moments at the gas station when a grandmother tells me her baby wanted to be an engineer because of me. I will! We kept going with the scene and Debbie said, Got it. We've received your submission. Guillaume had played a seriously wide array of roles by the time he landed on "A Different World," after all. Bumper Robinson (Dorian Heywood): I was graduating high school at the time, so I was actually a legit freshman coming into college. Im going to make something happen with this opportunity, I really am. Alice was an iconic performer on both the screen and stage. Alice was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 2000, and she retired from acting in 2005. Allen assured Robinson that shed make sure he could do both, and he assumed the role of Dorian, an abstinent basketball star who dates Pinkett Smiths character, Lena James. Emil Wilbekin (journalist and founder of Native Son, a collective and empowerment platform for Black gay/queer men): A Different World launched when I was a sophomore at Hampton University. I think we felt like we had more stories in us to tell. Bowser: I love watching [Dwayne and Whitley] go from being awkward teenagers to more mature Black people in love. Then she became the Halle Berry we know now. "A Different World" features a large number of musical guest stars, many of whom are no longer with us. Viewers who revisit "A Different World" might be surprised to find that shortly before he took that iconic role, Avery appeared on the show's Season 3 episode, "To Have and Have Not," as the Pin Punisher. As Dean Hughes appears in just four episodes of "A Different World," the character demanded an actor with serious presence. Though some advocated for the pregnancy to be written into the showa scenario that many young women could relate toits been widely reported that Cosby and others disagreed. Fales-Hill: When Halle Berry did the show, she was not yet a star, she hadnt done any of her big movies. What do I have to lose? Thats when I came up with the accent for Whitley. After Bonet's departure following Season 1, the connection between "A Different World"and "The Cosby Show" became more and more tenuous. I went to Howard University, and it was everything in my growth and my self-discovery from young teenager to woman. Summer: As time went on, like any new character, Freddie just started to develop and evolve. Even more notably, he was a highly-lauded stage actor who took home a Tony Award for his Broadway portrayal of the Cowardly Lion in "The Wiz" (per Playbill). I got Whoopi Goldberg to play a teacher[and] I knew she was going to win the Academy Award that year for Ghostand she was amazing. Bell: Kadeem got the job but hes a New Yorker, so he [came] to L.A. and moved in with me. He did such a great job in the latter role that the character's spin-off series, "Benson," ended up running much longer than its parent show. Cookies help us deliver our Services. Guy: After we did the reading, I said, Are yall going to do that? Summer: I loved the date rape episode. He was 68 years old (via CNN). "I'm not good at playing stereotypes," she once remarked (via Jet), and so she didn't an enormously brave and difficult stance to take, even today. 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